Tournament:
KEJOHANAN CATUR MERDEKA TERBUKA KE-2 PIALA PUSINGAN YB DATO' DR WAN HASHIM WAN TEH PARLIMEN GERIK 2007

Organiser:
PEJABAT PELAJARAN DAERAH HULU PERAK, GERIK, PERAK

Venue:
DEWAN SEKOLAH MENENGAH TEKNIK GERIK, PERAK

Gerik Open 2007 concluded successfully on the 11th of August. The event, with the total prize money of more than RM3500 attracted more than 300 players from all over Malaysia and Singapore.

The day of the event started as early as 6.45am for Penang players when the 40-seated bus started its journey.

A glance of the tournament hall from the entrance of the hall.

Round 1 started at almost 11am with the under 12 boys first start the clock.

The kids get themselves ready before round 1.

Before the start of round 1, open category.

Fadli @ Stonemaster

The organiser of the event had a welcome speech and they actually welcomed Fadli of Stonemaster.biz and your truly, Eu Hong of Chess.EuHong.NET in their opening speech.

Round 1 & 2 started smoothly for all the top seeds. Round 3 saw Anthony Liong blundered badly to lose while your truly escaped narrowly with a draw.

The event started to get excited when Micheal Siong from Singapore beaten the Stonemaster in an interesting position while Khai Boon managed what he is supposed to do with his rating by beating his fellow Penang players, Chuah Heng Meng.

Khai Boon continued his winning streak by beating Micheal Siong in round 5 while your truly played an inferior position and had to resort to defend against Stonemaster's English Opening and lost. This actually levels our personal encounter score...

Round 6 was another win for Khai Boon when he was almost guaranteed champion with 6/6 going into the final round.

The event then concluded after 7 rounds with most of the higher seeded players finished top and to set the record straight, all players from Penang that had participated in the Open Category, 8 of them finished top 10.

Here is the full result:
Open Category (Click here to enlarge)

Under 18 Boys Category (Click here to enlarge)

Under 18 Girls Category (Click here to enlarge)

Under 12 Boys Category (Click here to enlarge)

Under 12 Girls Category (Click here to enlarge)

Prize giving ceremony start with a speech and we can see the ever hardworking, Stonemaster walking around with his cam-corder.

Noticed any changes of him? He had actually changed his shirt after lunch hour...

My Panasonic Lumix camera actually become over heat when I took too many pictures since there are a total of more than 50 prizes and a lot of the picture taken are not to their best quality. Here is some of the pictures.

Elgin Lee from Penang is the youngest in the top 10. According to him, this is his first open prize and he is only 11 years old.

5th placing, Anthony Liong from Penang.

4th placing, Fadli @ Stonemaster from Kuala Lumpur.

3rd placing, Tan Eu Hong from Penang.

Runner Up, Chuah Heng Meng from Penang. (Sorry, my camera took too long to cool down. So this is the picture taken before round 1).

And the winner is... Tan Khai Boon from Penang.

Congratulation to all the winners and see you again next year!

Read Fadli @ Stonemaster brief report here.