He has put Malaysia on the world chess map


Teh Wee Zhun takes his chess very seriously and feels that for one to excel, they have to make the right choices in and out of the game. Photo: The Star/Yap Chee Hong

He's no Anatoly Karpov aspirant nor a Garry Kasparov wannabe.

Why should he? Nope, Teh Wee Zhun is a man of the times, and to him, Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is the be all and end all of a sport he has completely immersed himself in.

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