Kelab Catur Setia Kuantan: Merdeka Age Group 2009

Today is the rest day of DATMO and Ambank Chess Challenge, but the day is not went to waste at 5th Floor Ballroom of Cititel Midvalley, coz today, there is also games being held there. The 1st Merdeka Age-group chess open has been held today. The additional bonus to this event, is that during the lunch time hour, a seminar on Chess Of Bobby Fisher was done by Larry Parr - he is the writer for most chess speech of Dato' Tan, and he is also the former editor of Chess Life magazines back in the 80s (I think). Larry mostly tells us the stories about Fisher himself, and Carl Hessler who is a chess teacher back in the America, tells the audience about the games of Fisher. I was at the scene of the Merdeka Age Group, being an arbiter of the event, handling the U-10, U-12, U-14 and U-16 Age group, with the help of the UM students who were at the Malaysian Chess Festivals for the experiences that will be useful to them later on during the GACC chess events - for Asian Universities. Luckily for me they are all very well versed about the competition. Haslindah is the arbiter of U-8 category. It was a tiring day for me, as I have to make rounds to settle problems esp from the U-10 section, and few U-12, resting only when the rounds is ended, and during the rest lunch hour time, I have names to key-in for DATCC FIDE rated event to be submitted to FIDE. So, the true rest I have was to sleep at night after breaking fast. But as tired as I could be, I have fun here.. couldnt stop laughing, honestly I couldnt get myself angry at the kids.. they are so cute! I believe children all over the world at that age, play like they play too! What makes me take them to be adorable is the fact that they enjoy being at the chess scene so much, hanging out with friends. And yes, they do make noises - they speak louder, they yell, they scream, they jump, they ran, they roll over the floor :-)) but you know what, they had the time of their life! I saw that there are parents who seems to take the game...

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BioWare dodging heavy DRM for Dragon Age - News - play.tm

Muzyka says that the publisher are trusting gamers to do the right thing and not pirate the game, in exchange for excellent support from the developer post-launch. Dragon Age will apparently include just a simple disk check.

"It's a philosophy that we're building a game, with Dragon Age, that is such as great value to price ratio, and we have such an ambitious and valuable, to fans, downloadable content plan that we trust our fans. We're releasing a game we think they are going to see is really useful, valuable and high quality to price ration that they are going to pay us for that, because it's evident that the game is good game," Muzyka explains.

"It's a long game, a lot of content. The post-release content is going to motivate people to register with us and become customers long term. It's all optional, but we're confident enough with the quality of the offering that we know our fans will be loyal and support us. It's about trust - we trust our fans. We're counting on them to keep us in business. We ask them to consider that, to not pirate, and to support us and in turn we'll be very, very supportive of them."

Much more in the full interview .

By Luke Guttridge

Source: BioWare dodging heavy DRM for Dragon Age - News - play.tm

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