The year 2008 edition of Chung Ling High School Open was concluded on the 17th of February with Chuah Heng Meng capturing the champion title after 2 days of battles.

Day 1 

The tournament started after afternoon with top seed Tan Khai Boon,

 

and third seed, Chuah Heng Meng.

The second seed which is yours truly finished the round as soon as a blitz game when the tournament time control is 45 minutes per player so that more photos can be taken for round 1.

Round 1 under way.

PS Lim was still celebrating Chinese New Year back in his home town so was not available to take photo on day 1.

Round by round pairing was displayed on the big screen as the official printer was not functioning throughout the tournament.

By the end of day 1, I found Lee Jing Yao wondering around in a t-shirt almost the same as mine and here we are. =D

All the top 3 seeds played through all rounds of day 1 without any upset result.

Day 2 

The morning round of day 2 saw the top seed, Tan Khai Boon falters against Thong Yung Chen of Penang Free School. 

Round 5 & 6 completed with Chuah Heng Meng and myself winning our games to go into the final round with the perfect 6/6 score while Khai Boon scored another lost against Tjun Yee along the way.

The pen-ultimate round saw clashes of generation Thong Yung Chen who is taking his SPM later this year played against the veteran, Chuah Heng Meng and the result was 0-1 after the former blundered in a worse position.

Final round saw the top 3 tables settled with quick draws and the players decided to let the tie breaker decides on the final standing.

Players typically the younger generations gathered around the arbiter table while the official result was being worked out and finally, after some while, the winners were finally announced as follow:

Complete result is available here .

Photos taken during the prize giving ceremony.

Best ex-Chung Ling player, Lim Wei Yang.

Best Veteran player, Khor Bean Hwa.

Best Lady player, Ch'ng Chen Nee.

and the top 10 prize winners are: 

 Keok Kai En, 10th placing.

9th placing, Tan Khai Boon.

8th placing, Tan Yik Shen.

 7th placing, Mohd Maulana Maulani from Kedah.

6th placing, Looi Xin Hao.

5th placing is won by Hoh Tjun Yee who also beaten the top seed in the pen-ultimate round but... Sorry, the photo during the closing ceremony is missing and incidently no photo of him during this event was found. Please send me your photo if you see this message. =D

4th placing, Thong Yung Chen who had beaten the top seed early in the morning. 

3rd placing, A’amaluddin Bebakar.

The runner is Tan Eu Hong.

and the winner is...

 Chuah Heng Meng, the champion of Chung Ling High School Open 2008.

The tournament concluded after the prize giving ceremoney. Congratulations to all the winners and see you next year!!