Kuala Lumpur Grand Prix 2010 will be organised by Kuala Lumpur Chess Association (KLCA) and Polgar Chess Asia with sponsorship from Malaysian Intellectual Development Foundation and Royal Selangor Club. 
In his two hours talk, Peter share his vast experience and knowledge gain from attending several international chess training seminars all over the world .
FIDE Master and former National Champion - Peter Long (photo right) will give a chess talk at Neo Manhattan Chess Centre (NMCC) on 22nd March 2009 (Sunday). Peter is two time National Junior Champion (MSSM) and won the National Championship in 1986 . Currently, he is a FIDE Master (FM), FIDE Trainer and FIDE Arbiter.
18...Nxb2! 19.Re3 Bd4 20.Nd1 Qc4 21.Nxd4 cxd4 22.Qxc4 Bxc4 23.Re1 Nd3 24.Rxb8+ Rxb8 25.Re2 f6 26.Bh6 N7c5 27.Rd2 Ra8 28.Nb2 Nxb2 29.Rxb2 Kf7 30.h4 Bxa2 31.Bf3 Bb3 32.Kg2 Ra1 33.Rd2 d3 34.Rb2 Ra2 35.Rb1 d2 36.Kf1 d1Q+ Fritz show a long varition with the idea of harrasing white's rook with 36...Bc2! 37.Rb8 Threatening mate on f8. 37...Nd7 38.Rh8 (38.Rd8 Bd3+ 39.Kg2 Bxe4 40.Bxd2 Bxf3+ 41.Kxf3 Ne5+ 42.Ke2 Nc4 43.Kd3 Nxd2) 38...Bd3+ 39.Kg2 Bxe4 40.Bxd2 Bxf3+ 41.Kxf3 Rxd2 42.Rxh7+ Kf8 43.h5 gxh5 44.Rxh5 Ne5+ 45.Ke3 Rxd5 46.Rh7 Nc4+ 37.Bxd1 Bxd1 38.Rxd1 Nxe4 39.Be3 f5 40.Kg2 Ra5 White's d5 pawn is doom. 41.Rb1 Rxd5 42.Rb8 Nf6 43.f3 Rd3 44.Bh6 Ra3 45.Rf8+ Ke6 46.Rh8 Ra2+ 47.Kg1 d5 Peter mobilised his passed pawn. 48.Bg5 d4 49.Kf1 white gain nothing with 49.Bxf6 exf6 50.Kf1 (50.Rxh7 d3 51.Rh8 Ra1+ 52.Kf2 d2) 50...h5 49...h5 50.Rd8 Nd5 Black knight brilliantly shield his d pawn from white's rook. 51.Rg8 Kf7 52.Rd8 Ne3+ 53.Bxe3 dxe3 54.f4 Rf2+ 55.Kg1 Rf3 55...Rd2! win quickly. For e.g 56.Ra8 Rd1+ 57.Kg2 e2 and nothing can stop black e pawn from queening 56.Kg2 e2 57.Kxf3 e1=Q
58.Kg2 Qe2+ 59.Kh3 Qf1+ 60.Kh2 Qf2+ 61.Kh3 Qg1 Believe it or not but my friend Fritz announce mate in 24 (maximum) with 61...e5! Breaking white fotress. 62.fxe5 Qg1 63.Rd2 f4 64.gxf4 (64.Rg2 Qh1+ 65.Rh2 Qf1+ 66.Rg2 f3) 64...Qg4+ 65.Kh2 Qxf4+ 66.Kh3 Qxd2 62.Rd2 Qh1+ 63.Rh2 Qf1+ 64.Rg2 Ke6 Peter's king is heading to white's main weakness - g3 pawn. 65.Kh2 Kd5 66.Ra2 Ke4 67.Ra3 Qc1 68.Ra6 Kf3 69.Ra2 e6 White in zugzwang! 70.Rg2 Qe1 0-1 Black resign because after 71.Ra2 (71.Kh3 Qf1) 71...Qxg3+
18...Nxb2! 19.Re3 Bd4 20.Nd1 Qc4 21.Nxd4 cxd4 22.Qxc4 Bxc4 23.Re1 Nd3 24.Rxb8+ Rxb8 25.Re2 f6 26.Bh6 N7c5 27.Rd2 Ra8 28.Nb2 Nxb2 29.Rxb2 Kf7 30.h4 Bxa2 31.Bf3 Bb3 32.Kg2 Ra1 33.Rd2 d3 34.Rb2 Ra2 35.Rb1 d2 36.Kf1 d1Q+ Fritz show a long varition with the idea of harrasing white's rook with 36...Bc2! 37.Rb8 Threatening mate on f8. 37...Nd7 38.Rh8 (38.Rd8 Bd3+ 39.Kg2 Bxe4 40.Bxd2 Bxf3+ 41.Kxf3 Ne5+ 42.Ke2 Nc4 43.Kd3 Nxd2) 38...Bd3+ 39.Kg2 Bxe4 40.Bxd2 Bxf3+ 41.Kxf3 Rxd2 42.Rxh7+ Kf8 43.h5 gxh5 44.Rxh5 Ne5+ 45.Ke3 Rxd5 46.Rh7 Nc4+ 37.Bxd1 Bxd1 38.Rxd1 Nxe4 39.Be3 f5 40.Kg2 Ra5 White's d5 pawn is doom. 41.Rb1 Rxd5 42.Rb8 Nf6 43.f3 Rd3 44.Bh6 Ra3 45.Rf8+ Ke6 46.Rh8 Ra2+ 47.Kg1 d5 Peter mobilised his passed pawn. 48.Bg5 d4 49.Kf1 white gain nothing with 49.Bxf6 exf6 50.Kf1 (50.Rxh7 d3 51.Rh8 Ra1+ 52.Kf2 d2) 50...h5 49...h5 50.Rd8 Nd5 Black knight brilliantly shield his d pawn from white's rook. 51.Rg8 Kf7 52.Rd8 Ne3+ 53.Bxe3 dxe3 54.f4 Rf2+ 55.Kg1 Rf3 55...Rd2! win quickly. For e.g 56.Ra8 Rd1+ 57.Kg2 e2 and nothing can stop black e pawn from queening 56.Kg2 e2 57.Kxf3 e1=Q
58.Kg2 Qe2+ 59.Kh3 Qf1+ 
35.Ra1 The tactical monster (Fritz 11) suggest the extra ordinary move 35.Bh4! Qxh4 36.Nxe6 Re7 (36...Rf7 37.Ng5) 37.Qxd5 35...Kf7 36.axb5 axb5 37.Ra6 Rbb7 38.Nc6 Ne4 Peter has done ok so far but unfortunately he blunder with....
39.Nd4?? 0-1 The correct move is 39.Qd4 and both side will have equal chance. Probably Peter resign without waiting for Daylo to play 39...Nc5 forking his queen and rook.
Peter Long suffered his second defeat in the Asia Chess Championship League . This time he was beaten in round 6 against Iranian Junior Champion - FM Toufighi Homayoon (photo right).Peter 12 moves lost in round 6 show how rusty he is as what he has mentioned before.
In round 7, Peter's team were paired against Tagaytay Chess Club (PHI) which feauture GM Darwin Laylo (FIDE 2507) in board 4 ! As expected, Peter who played in 4th board lost to the strong Filipino GM who has a 154 rating points higher then Peter .
Below is his 5th round game.
12.Bxf7+ Probably tired with his other duties Peter missed white next move. The correct move is 11...hxg6 although white will still have the upper hand. Peter must have expected 12.Nxe2 and then reply with 12...hxg6 , however white 12.Bxf7 in between move decide the game. 12...Kxf7 13.Nxh8+ Kf6 14.Nxe2 1–0
FM Peter Long is the only Malaysian playing in the first ever Asian Chess Championship League, so his game is "compulsory" to be highlight in this blog :) Unfortunately the pgn files provided end here. White seems to have problems with his light square around his kingside especially - the f3 square. I believe the game must have been last a little bit longer although possible line suggest by "Mr.Fritz "show white will have a hard time after for e.g 28.c5 (28.f3 f5 29.Nf2 Qc6) 28...Bg4 29.Be2 Bxe2 30.Qxe2 d3 31.Qe3 d2! 32.Nxd2 Rxd2! 33.cxb6 Qb7 34.Rxc8+ Qxc8 with a clear advantage for black .
The Seminar Perticipants. Photo from FIDEMah Hassan is a strong chess player. I play against him in the middle of 90's in one rapid tournament in Klang and only won the game on time. My position is hopeless at that time. Abdul Latif is well known chess arbiter and he has been arbitering many international and local chess tournaments.
Mah Hassan (left) and Abdul Latif Mohamad (right) in the seminar.Photo from FIDE website
You can read the full article about the seminar at FIDE website here and from FM Peter Long blog
serious in chess ?
I grew up in a time where people were much more generous. You cannot imagine how famous names - top national players (too many to mention) would agree to play games with a young player just starting out, giving tips and and to sharing their knowledge. We all loved chess and did not feel we were in competition with each other to the point we kept things to ourselves. Books were to be shared together!
Also my formative years were greatly influenced when I went to the Royal Military College (RMC) in Form 4-5 because I suddenly lost the easy and privileged access to chess that I so enjoyed when in La Salle but on the other hand the RMC motto of "Serve to Lead" reinforced my youthful idealism and has been almost the guiding principle of my life and in everything that I do.
How serious was chess? Very and yet not really. Again circumstances played a big part. Coming from La Salle I was tapped to play for RMC and even became the Selangor schools champion. If I remained in La Salle with the intense competition there I might not even have been selected to be one of the two individual event representatives. And I qualified via the weak Bangsar zone and not the very tough Petaling district!
Because I was successful I kept playing. Also, my first MSSM was a disaster as I was completely without practice my first year in RMC as a "new boy". I then learnt a new thing about myself - I never wanted to give less than my best (or what I was capable of) and so the next two years I won the MSSM, often through a combination of determination and perhaps being a little smarter and more motivated than my opponents!
Hairulov: At what point did you realize that you may have some chess ability?
That's a really tough question. I must have some ability but talent for sure very little. No immodesty here as I would not have achieved what I have without knowing my limitations!
Anyway chess was always more than playing to me and very early I became rather proficient at all aspects of the game, be it organising, developing programs, serving as an arbiter, playing at a reasonable level, studying and teaching, or writing (and now also I am involved in marketing and promotion).
Because of this I had only been able to focus on playing for limited and infrequent periods of time so I am very satisfied with becoming National Champion in a time when there were professional players and it was very prestigious and also becoming Malaysian No. 1 on the FIDE rating list and achieving and maintaining the strength of a good FIDE Master (2350) before moving on.
In my final year I was also incredibly dominant, travelling up and down the country and winning practically every tournament so it was a very nice goodbye.
Hairulov: Any notable victories/achievement in your career? Upset victories? Memorable tournaments?
You might find this strange but I am more proud of what I achieved when I ran the Malaysian Chess Federation on my return from university in the early 80's.
Because I came from schools chess I had a different perspective than others before me, and so in 1984 put in place a National Junior Training scheme - Kumpulan Remaja. Ng Ek Leong was perhaps the most prominent graduate, winning a Gold Medal on Board 6 at the Olympiad and I literally forced the team to protect him as this was critically important to show the OCM and Sports Ministry we could achieve something on the world stage.
I also personally worked with Audrey Wong and followed her to Adelaide for the Asian Girls Championship where she became our first Asian champ and would dare say ensured her success by helping her win her first two adjourned games which luck would have it was against her two main rivals!
Later I helped young players like Wong Zi Jing and of course I knew the wiz kids from Kelantan, Mas Hafizuhelmi and Abdul Haq from the time they were 10 years old!
To give time to chess without being distracted by a full time job, I applied for and got an allowance from the National Sports Council to be MCF Executive Secretary and that gave me a base from which to run around to develop the game.
All this while writing chess columns in the New Straits Times, doing regular weekly articles in the Malay Mail and later a teaching column for The Sun, for over 10 years.
When I finally decided to give a year to chess full time to see what a 2250+ player (already National champion and a regular international) could achieve, I was told in no uncertain terms by the likes of Hamid (who had taken over the Federation), that if were to be a player then I just had to be a player but the problem was international competitions locally had all dried up and I did not have the funds (or the time as I had all this while being studying for advanced degrees part time) to travel to Europe.
This was a time when there were still very few titled players in Asia and not too many rated.
For sure too I was not wanted in the national team as I knew more that any official in charge as to what was needed and no challenge to their authority could be tolerated!
So I went to India on and off over two years. The first trip there was painful as my deficiencies were cruelly exposed but I put in enormous work on my return and from that on my rating increased right up to 2350 and then stayed there. I started even beating much stronger players because I had reached the stage if you were less than 2300 I would win, if 2400 it would be a draw but also I had no chance against a 2500!
My time for playing chess had run out and I also had confirmation of what my level was!
Hairulov: Tell me about your current post with FIDE and ASEAN Chess Confederation.
When I was in MCF in the 80's, Malaysia was far ahead of Singapore in terms of activities and we have to credit Dato' Tan Chin Nam for this (he wanted to be Deputy President - Asia of FIDE). They had IMs many years before we could even dream of one but it was seen there as a purely individualistic and intellectual exercise. But they also had dedicated people like Ignatius Leong, now the General Secretary of FIDE, who simply knew so much more about chess especially in technical matters.
Many do not know this but Malaysia and Singapore were very close then (even the Ringgit was almost 1 to 1 with the Singapore Dollar!) and in fact the Malaysia-Singapore Match was started from a conversation I had with Ignatius Leong who was in those days a frequent arbiter in our international tournaments because we needed his expertise (with apologies to our many International Arbiters then, almost all who have long retired).
Actually over the last 15 years I had kept in touch with Ignatius Leong - but not about chess - so more of once every other year or so and in the last few he kept inviting me to help him with the academy he had set up.
Finally, he told me in mid 2006 that he was setting up in Malaysia with MCF with Hamid together with local trainers. And in October he asked me to set up the company and be a local director and to help supervise the renovations. In December when visiting Singapore I took the opportunity to participate in a Seminar for Coaches (US$ 600!) and became Malaysia's first (and only) FIDE Trainer by passing after preparing submissions and making the required presentations.
I will not dwelt on why the JV and participation of locals in the company fell apart - only that it was a matter of having to qualify for FIDE Trainer titles (there are 4 levels available: Developmental Instructor, National Instructor, FIDE Instructor, and FIDE Trainer) and there was some resistance to that.
With me formally seen as a Director of the ASEAN Chess Academy in Malaysia, I started getting calls and invitations from old friends in chess who first thought I was going to help change things in Malaysia and be again a contributor internationally but when they understood I had no interest let alone the stomach for such, felt that I might as well contribute in other ways and that led to the appointment as Executive Director of the ASEAN Chess Confederation and later Global Chess BV, the commercial arm of FIDE offered me a role in marketing which is most obviously manifested by my appointment as Web Editor for FIDE.com.
Hairulov: What is your current and future plan ?
ASEAN chess today is really 4 very active countries plus 1 struck with problems not of their making with 3 more slightly confused. As Executive Director I mainly try and get better coordination amongst activities and to some extent we are successful in that we now have the ASEAN Grand Prix, a series of GM tournaments with an overall prize fund and this is likely to be expanded further to become an APAC Pro Tour.
Of course, on the developmental side the ASEAN Age Groups has already seen its 9th edition and we are pushing very hard for chess in schools as well as for academies to be set up in several countries.
But the ASEAN Master Circuit which was held for the weaker countries get more rated and titled players has not taken off despite its low costs simply because the countries that need it most are not interested and the stronger countries are losing interest in supporting this initiative.
Becoming a FIDE Arbiter was a pure accident - I was at the 6th Asian Individual Championship in Cebu as a guest and where no Malaysian showed up despite everything being free and it being a World Cup qualifying event and so with many 2600+ players. To give their Arbiters seminar a more international favour I accepted an invitation to participate and to everyone's shock I was the top student!
From that I was invited to be at the Macau Asia Indoor Games (MAIGOC) last year and from then on I seem to be invited to be an arbiter in event after event. It seems with the move towards becoming an Olympic sport, there is a equal importance being placed in the 3 forms of tournament chess we have today: Classical, Rapid and Blitz. So those arbiters with minimum playing strength and decent international playing experience are in demand as decisions now need to be made on the spot.
The other thing that is happening is that I am getting to conduct or assist in seminars for FIDE to "teach the trainer" type activities and (so far India and in Botswana and at least one more this year) so perhaps I will be more involved in training players in the future.
Hairulov: In your opinion , what Malaysia could do to be a strong chess country ?
To be fair, I will first have to state that we will never be an Indonesia let alone a Philippines or even Vietnam as chess playing here is not a profession that you can live on and no matter how talented or good, school and work has to come first.
On the other hand players are getting ever younger and stronger sooner nowadays. At the ASEAN Chess Academy, if a child has interest, can work hard and is not without talent, and has the opportunity to play regularly in international youth events, if we start working with them between 9-11 years of age, by 16 a FIDE Master title is almost assured and the International Master title a real possibility with the Grandmaster title maybe even being realistically dreamed of.
In this process we will also have a pretty good idea by the time the child is 14 what his limits might be. So we need to do more with young players and that starts with our local trainers who are frankly almost all much too weak for this task. A year lost is critical today and we cannot destroy talent like this and yet we continue to do so.
There seem to be a disturbing trend by officials in MCF to deprive players from opportunities to play internationally when the exact opposite should be the case.
For Malaysia to progress, I think it has to start with everyone who has held positions in chess in the last 10 years stepping aside (no one is indispensible and history has proven all national leaders do well in their first one or two terms and up to a decade and after become absolute monsters!).
Others will emerge, and we will likely be pleasantly surprised at how well they do! If asked, people like me will of course offer guidance and if they choose to disagree and instead tell me to jump into the Klang river I can also easily accept that!
* this interview is conducted through email. At first we plan to meet for the interview but unfortunately due to unexpected things happen in the last minutes , we decide to do it by e-mail instead - Hairulov
Asean Masters Circuit - Intchess Mixed Tournament 2008, 15 to 23 Mar,
Our ex- national player FM Peter Long has emerged from his retirement to play at The Singapore Intchess Mixed Tournament 2008 held from 15-23 Mac 2008 at the Teck Ghee Community Club,
Singaporean FM Graham Chua (2075) with 9 points emerged as the winner followed by FM Peter Long (2350) photo right with 8 points . Both are the only unbeaten player in the 11 round events. 
Among players that participate is FM Kyaw Kyaw Soe (2477)
Talking about Peter Long, I always joke with my friends that my dream is to watch Peter Long play a game with Nigel Short photo left Hehehehe
Below are Peter Long games:-
Round 1
Long,Peter (2350) - Kyaw,Kyaw Soe (2477) [D02]
ASEAN Masters Circuit
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c6 3.Bf4 Bf5 4.e3 e6 5.Nbd2 Bd6 6.Bxd6 Qxd6 7.c4 ½–½ eeemm..a draw in 7th move…so early…or maybe the organizer didn’t key in the complete moves in the website ?
Round 2
ASEAN Masters Circuit
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Bd3 Nf6 ½–½ …aaahhh…another draw in 7th move…thinking about drawing problems ?
Round 3
ASEAN Masters Circuit
Aaahhh….from now on the games start to last longer as it should be J
Round 4
ASEAN Masters Circuit
Round 5
ASEAN Masters Circuit
Round 6
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Round 7
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Round 8
ASEAN Masters Circuit
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e6 4.Nf3 d5 5.e5 Nge7 6.d3 Nf5 7.g3 b5 8.Bg2 Qb6 9.Ne2 h5 10.0–0 Bb7 11.c3 a5 12.h3 Be7 13.Kh2 a4 14.a3 Na5 15.Bd2 Nb3 16.Rb1 d4 17.cxd4 cxd4 18.Nc1 Nxd2 19.Qxd2 Ne3 20.Rf2 Rc8 21.Ne2 Rc2 22.Qe1 b4 23.Qg1 Bxf3 24.Bxf3 Ng4+ 25.Bxg4 hxg4 26.h4 0–0 27.Rg2 Rd8 28.Qd1 b3 29.Qf1 Rdc8 30.Rc1 Rxc1 31.Nxc1 Bxa3 32.Nxb3 Qxb3 33.bxa3 Qxa3 34.Qe2 Rc1 35.Qb2 Qxb2 36.Rxb2 a3 37.Ra2 Rc3 38.Kg2 Rb3 39.Kf1 Rb1+ 40.Ke2 Rb2+ 0–1
Round 9
ASEAN Masters Circuit
Round 10
ASEAN Masters Circuit
Round 11
ASEAN Masters Circuit
