Those were the days - correction

Quah Seng Sun has corrected me on the people in the picture in the post Those were the days

I mistook Koo Hock Song for Mr. Gong Wooi Mau. But..but... that's not Tan Kai Ming? Man, you can knock me over with a feather.

I'm even starting to doubt that boy in the middle is me. Thanks a lot, Seng Sun, for destroying my memories. The reason I think it is me - the hair style and a picture of me at the board came out in the Chinese press that my father cut out and showed me, not sure if it is the same picture though.

The only one we know for sure who is in the picture - Kotov!

Those were the days

In 1975 Soviet Grandmaster Alexander Kotov visited Malaysia  I remember he was in my home state of Penang to give a talk and simul. I think it was a Thursday and the venue was the Hooi Lye Association in Kimberley Street, where the Penang Chess Association held regular playing sessions.

Kotov played eighteen boards drawing three and winning the rest.

Source: www.pca.bayanbaru.com