First was a blogger called Andrew and he started a chess blog called GilaChess
Later a fellow called Hairul came along. Hairul was born Malaysian but he always wanted to be a Russian because Russians are so good in chess. So he called his blog Hairulov.
DAT Chess Centre came along and very promising at first. Even Andrew started silently contributing to this blog. Veteran writer Lim Chong started a series of articles "Chess Overboard".
But today all these blogs are totally irrelevant now. All they can do is provide news and tournament announcement and results. How many times do we want to read the same news?
They are now overtaken by others below.
Chess is Chess started by first Malaysian International Master Jimmy Liew. Sees things most others miss and tell it like it is.
Malaysian Chess - At It's Best? by someone calling himself Rationality. Everybody wondors who he is. Write with a superior attitude, that pisses others off. Then you start thinking...ya maybe he was right.
Chess Ninja is a very promising blog started by another anonymous blogger. Seems to be started after he/she got fed up with First GM and started replying to First GM in this blog.
First GM is started by Raymond Siew. He calls himself a mind coach and got into chess because his son is a promising junior. Easily one of the most prolific bloggers after Chess is Chess. Most of the time, only he himself understands what he is writing.
2010 Chess Odyssey by someone called Ilham. He stays away from all controversy and writes entertaining, informative and sometimes funny (like this one on Malaysian last round match against Bahrain which he described musically!)
The rest of the blogs are dead or of no importance.
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