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| SLC Open 2008 Concluded |
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| Written by PS Lim | |
| Wednesday, 09 July 2008 | |
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After last week PAG, PCA return to SLC with a PCA-SLC open tournament. The objectives are to encourage chess at the mainland and create opportunities for butterworth, Sungai Petani, Kulim and other town nearby to join the tournament. The registration for the tournament is encouraging with almost 80 players. However, the turnout was less than 50% of what appear on registration list.... that was bad for the pairing when most of the players will expect a walkover at first round! So, with quick action, pairing handler Tan Eu Hong remove the absent player from the pairing and as the result, the tournament started late at 10.30am. However, given the situation, I think the late start is justifable... 
Tan Eng Seong collecting registration fees from the participants 
Reliasing that the absentiseem are high, Eu Hong get back to work on the pairing, with Tan Jia Yun watching 
while Anthony Liong and Kim Hoong waiting for the new pairing The game start and the first round surprises was Evan's lost to A'amluddin(who is a strong player, see PCL 2007 where he scored 7/7). while others seeded players has no problem going thru' the first round. 
Start of first round, table 1 - 4 
First round, table 6 A'amluddin vs Evan(1-0) and table 8, Choo Ting Wei vs Syed Iskandar(0-1) 
First round, table 8 - 12 
photo taken from outside of the room 
Second round, table 4, Wan Mohd vs Teh De Jack(1-0) 
YB Tan Cheong Heng(left) visit to the tournament together with SLC's admin. manager, Mr. Yap Li Lung(center), while Mr. Tan Eng Seong explained about the tournament.  From left : YB Tan Cheong Heng, PCA assistant secretary Mr. Tan Eng Seong, PCA newly elected president Mr. Lee Ewe Ghee and Mr. Yap Li Lung discussing on possible chess development plan in BM 
After 3 rounds, participant have 50 minutes break for lunch. 
participants can view the stage and projector screen while taking their lunch 
If you are not hungry, you can watch TV! Round 5 saw another upset - A'amaluddin beat top seed Tan Khai Boon with black pieces. At round 6, A'amaluddin play well and Anthony hang on to a draw while Evan vs Khai Boon ended with different colour bishop - draw. 
Battle continue after lunch. Round 5, Table 1 Thong Yung Chen vs Anthony Liong(0-1) and Table 2 Tan Khai Boon vs A'amluddin(0-1) 
Another VIP visit to the tournament, Mr. Ooi Lye Oo(second from right), the owner of SLC. 
Final round, table 1 Anthony Liong vs Tan Khai Boon(0.5-0.5), Table 2, Thung Yung Chen vs A'amluddin(0.5-0.5). With this, Anthony Liong grab his second title of this year. 
Final round, table 9 - 11 Top 20 finishers are : 1 Anthony Liong Ing Kiat, Open 1700 6 30.0 24.75 26.5 2 A'Amaluddin Bebakar, Open 800 5.5 34.5 26.50 23.5 3 Thong Yung Chen, Open 1566 5.5 30.0 18.25 24.5 4 Evan Timothy Capel, Open 1576 5.5 27.0 19.00 20.0 5 Tan Khai Boon, Open 1880 5 34.0 22.75 23.5 6 Wan Mohd Arif Shafiq, Open 1589 5 30.0 16.50 22.0 7 Keok Kai En, Open 1359 5 24.5 15.00 19.0 8 Fairuz Hamizah, Lady 1282 5 23.0 15.50 17.0 9 Syed Iskandar, Open 1537 4.5 30.5 17.75 19.5 10 Norazwan Bin Kamaruzaman, Open 1520 4.5 30.5 17.50 19.0 11 Marzuki Mat, Open 1642 4.5 28.0 14.25 22.0 12 Teh De Jack, Open 1197 4.5 24.5 11.25 16.5 13 Teoh Ern Tek, Open 1224 4 29.0 13.50 17.0 14 Choo Teng Wei, Open 800 4 26.5 13.00 16.0 15 Alias Hanafi, Open 1519 4 26.0 12.00 17.0 16 Mohd Rizamsulliady Ramly, Open 800 4 26.0 10.00 18.0 17 Muhammad Sirajuddin, Open 1235 4 25.5 11.50 15.0 18 M. O. Hasyimie, Open 1368 4 23.0 11.50 13.0 19 Mohd Hafizan Omar, Open 1399 4 23.0 10.00 18.0 20 Tan Jia Yun, Lady 1206 3.5 28.0 11.75 17.5 It is interesting that the 11 year old Fairuz Hamizah finished number 8! Very Strong! (For detail result, please visit to www.pca.bayanbaru.com or Chess.EuHong.NET ) The winners are : 
Group photo of Winners of 6 - 10, plus best lady with Arbiter PS Lim, Mr.Yap Li Lung and Tan Eng Seong. 
Anthony Liong, champion of PCA-SLC chess tournament received top prize of RM200 while runner up, A'amaluddin looks on. 
Group photo of Winners of 6 - 10, plus best lady with Arbiter PS Lim, Mr.Yap Li Lung and Tan Eng Seong. 
Finally, Tan Eu Hong present the souvenir to Lewis Lim, SLC's marketing manager for SLC's kindness and helpfulness throughout the tournament. So, it is the end of the tournament and it seems that the objective is not fully met. Nevertheless, it is not a discouraging effort for PCA as a start; it is just a beginning and PCA will be putting more developing plan on Penang's mainland, especially, Butterworth and Bukit Mertajam. PCA and SLC has combined the effort to start the ball rolling at BM, let's hope the other sectors, organization or school especially, will continue to organize chess tournament and should there be any needs of technical assistant; PCA is more than willing to help. So, you BM people, lets keep it up! |
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