MALAYSIAN IN CHESS BOOKS

Few years back when i went for a seminar in Chennai, India, I discovered that books there (chess books especially) is not only cheap, it is dirt cheap! Chess books there got dwi pricing e.g. Modern Endgame Practice by Alexander Beliavsky & Adrian Mikhalchisin, the price is GBP14.99/Rs 175.

Here is the conversion (MYR equivalent in today's rate)

GBP14.99 x 4.8 = RM71.95

Rs175 x 7.2 = RM12.60 ...RM12.60 for a chess book!

I ended up buying like half a dozen chess books there, and paid in Rupees ofcourse, thank you very much! :-)

Modern Endgame Practice

What interesting about this book (other than its cheap price) is on Chapter 18 Endgames in Super Tournament, author has include MasHafizul wins against Hernandez

W:MasHafizul

B:Hernandez

60. ... Ra1?

61. Ke7 a4?

62. Rg3 Kh7

63. e6 a3

64. Rd3! a2

65. Rd2! Kg6

66. Kd7 Kf6

67. e7 Re1

68. Rf2 Kg7

69. Ra2 Rd1

70. Ke8 Kf6

71. Kf8 Rh1

72. Ra6

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On below book (No, this book i did not buy at Chennai) also mentioned about Malaysian player.

Chess:The Search for Mona Lisa

There got that famous simultaneous game in which Gufeld sacrifice his queen against Goh Yoon Wah and about that beautiful chess problems (Mok Tze Meng received the mysterious call) in which Gufeld believed is the proof that chess has been created by alien.

Well, you are right about that Gufeld, Kirsan can verified it!