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Chess At The 2005 Southeast Asian Games
Chess at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games took place at the Tagaytay City Convention Center in Tagaytay, Cavite, Philippines. Chess is not one of the Olympic Games events but is included in the Southeast Asian Games. Summary Medalists Men Women External linksSoutheast Asian Games Official results 2005 SEA Games events 2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ... Southeast Asian Games Southeast Asian Games 2005 {{SEAsianGames-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagaytay
Tagaytay, officially the City of Tagaytay ( fil, Lungsod ng Tagaytay), is a 2nd class component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 85,330 people. It is one of the country's most popular destinations for domestic tourism because of its scenery and cooler climate provided by its altitude. Tagaytay overlooks Taal Lake in Batangas and provides views of Taal Volcano Island in the middle of the lake through various vantage points situated in the city. Tagaytay is relatively close to the capital city of Manila, only away via Aguinaldo Highway, providing an easy escape for the locals from the heat of the huge metropolis. It is from Imus. Etymology Legend has it that the word Tagaytay came from "tagâ" meaning to cut and "itáy" which means father. A father and son were said to be on a wild boar hunt when the animal they were chasing turned and attacked them. As the boar charged towards the old man, the son cried "Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goh Wei Ming
Kevin Goh Wei Ming (born 7 July 1983) is a chess player from Singapore. He is a seven-time Singaporean champion (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2017) and has represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad since 2004. Chess career In 2000, Goh won the boys under 18 section at the 1st ASEAN Age Group Chess Championships in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. At the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, Goh won two bronze medals, in the men's standard individual event and in the teams' one. In 2010 he played in Singapore the first game of an exhibition blitz match between top Singaporean players and Garry Kasparov. In March 2011, in Hungary, he won back to back the First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest and the Caissa GM tournament in Kecskemét; in this latter he achieved his first norm required for the title of Grandmaster. The next year, Goh gained his second norm at the Asian Nations Cup in Zaozhuang, China, where he played for team Singapore. In 2018, he finished second, behind Tsegmed Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess At The SEA Games
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 SEA Games Events
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upi Darmayana Tamin
Upi Darmayana Tamin (born 4 February 1970) is an Indonesian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 1985. Tamin won the Asian women's championship of 1996 in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. In 2002, she won the Anniswati Memorial Cup 1st Leg held in Jakarta. At the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, she won a bronze medal with the Indonesian team, which finished third in the women's standard team event. Tamin also represented Indonesia at the Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ... five times, in 1986, 1988, 1994, 1996 and 2000. team chess record at Olimpbase.org [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irine Kharisma Sukandar
Irene Kharisma Sukandar (born 7 April 1992) is an Indonesian chess player and a two-time Asian women's champion. She is the first female player from Indonesia to achieve both the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM) titles. She graduated from Gunadarma University. She won two gold medals at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games. Career Sukandar won the Indonesian Women's Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010. She has represented Indonesia in five Women's Chess Olympiads from 2004 to 2014, the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 2009, the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in 2007, the 2006 Asian Games, the 2009 Asian Indoor Games, and the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. She won the individual silver medal on board 3 in the 36th Chess Olympiad in 2004 and bronze in the team blitz chess event at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Sukandar was joint winner, with Vietnamese player Pham Bich Ngoc, of the under-16 girls' section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Karlina Lumongdong
Lisa Karlina Lumongdong (born 23 July 1968) is an Indonesian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She is a two-times Indonesian Women's Chess Championship winner (1994, 2005). Biography She twice won Indonesian Women's Chess Championship: in 1994 and 2005. In 1993, Lisa Karlina Lumongdong participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ... where ranked 34th place. She represented Indonesia in Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 1995. In 2005, she won the bronze medal in Women's Standard Chess Team tournament in the Southeast Asian Games. Lisa Karlina Lumongdong played for Indonesia in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1988, at first reserve board in the 28t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lê Thanh Tú
Lê Thanh Tú (born 27 November 1985) is a Vietnamese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She won the Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship in 2008. Biography In 2007, in Tehran ranked the 5th place in the Asian Women's Chess Championship. In this same year she won in the East Asian Zone Women's Chess Tournament. In 2008, she won the Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship and participated in Women's World Chess Championship 2008 in Nalchik, where she lost Anna Ushenina in the first round. Played for Vietnam on two Women's Chess Olympiads (2006-2008) and at the Women's World Team Chess Championship in 2007. In the Asian Women's Team championships participated three times (2005—2009) where in the team competition she won two gold medals (2005, 2009) and a bronze medal (2008). In the women's team chess tournament at Asian Indoor Games participated in 2009. In 2007, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Thị Thanh An
Nguyễn Thị Thanh An (born 17 June 1976) is a Vietnamese woman grandmaster in chess. She has qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2015 through a zonal tournament, losing to Antoaneta Stefanova in the first round. She previously competed in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 world championships. With the Vietnamese national women's team she took part in Chess Olympiads: 2000 in Istanbul, 2002 in Bled, 2004 in Calvia, 2006 in Turin, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, 2016 in Baku.Thi Thanh An Nguyen www.chessgames.com In 2007 and 2011 she participated in the World Team Chess Championship
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Edhi Handoko
Edhi Handoko (August 28, 1960 – February 17, 2009) was an Indonesian chess player. He won the Indonesian Chess Championship in 1978, 1980, 1984 and 1991. Handoko earned the National Master title in 1978, before progressing to both FIDE Master and International Master in 1982. He subsequently became Indonesia's fourth grandmaster in 1994 with an Elo rating of 2520. In 2003 he won the men's masters tournament at the inaugural Japfa Chess Festival in Jakarta. Handoko played in the Indonesian national team in the Chess Olympiad and the Asian Team Chess Championship. Handoko died at the age of 48 on February 17, 2009 at the Cibinong Hospital in Bogor, following a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may tr .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Barbosa
Oliver Barbosa (born September 29, 1986) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. He earned his International Master title in 2008 and his grandmaster title in 2011. Barbosa won the 10th Parsvnath International Grandmasters Tournament in New Delhi, with 9.5/11 and an astounding Tournament Performance Rating (TPR) of 2710. By winning the said tournament, he also raised his ELO Live Rating from 2573 to 2627 as he gained 53.8 ELO rating points to become the Philippines 3rd Super GM. He earned his first GM norm in the Asian Individual in Mashad, Iran and his second norm in the Philippines National Championships. In 2014, he tied for 1st–2nd with Francisco Vallejo Pons in the Thailand Open Chess Championship. He has trained with Wesley So and John Paul Gomez. Chess career World Junior Chess Championship GM Barbosa joined the 43rd edition of the World Junior Chess Championship held at Kochi, Kerala, India in 2004 won by Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna. The then untitled Barbosa but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Shaobin
Wu Shaobin (born 4 February 1969) is a Singaporean chess Grandmaster. He won the national Singaporean Chess Championship in 2003 and 2005. He is married to former Women's World Chess Champion Xie Jun. In 1998, Wu Shaobin became China's 8th Grandmaster. He played for China in the 1994 Chess Olympiad and for Singapore in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Chess Olympiads. He gained the title of FIDE Trainer in 2005. He has played for Shandong chess club in the China Chess League (CCL). See also *Chess in China References External linksWu Shaobin- New In Chess. NICBase Online. * *Chessmetrics Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas. It is intended as an improvement over the Elo rating system. Implementation Chessmetrics is a weighted average of past performance. The score considers a player's win perce ...br>Career Ratings for Wu Shaobin (be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
