Last Saturday, September 22, 2007, a few of us from PCA travel to Nibong Tebal to participate in the Nibong Tebal Open tournament.

For those did not get to know about this event, here are some of the details:

We started our trip to the tournament venue around 8a.m. and managed to find the location after around 30 minutes of drive.

The tournament started without any rating applied as seeding. As a result, I started round 1 at table 16 which was one of the last few tables.

The opening ceremony took place before the start round 2.

On the meantime, I manage to...

Who is this? We are about to find out later.

Every around went smoothly for Evan and me until round 5 where we will meet each other. We were then 4/4 and leading. The game did not go well for me and I lost the game after losing a pawn then another and finally the game.

And so we went to round 6 with Evan playing White at board 1 and need a draw to clinch first. But...

Things did not turn well for him and he lost after blundering and get himself into an inferior position.

After some preparation by the organiser, here come the long awaited moment by all the participants. The prize giving ceremony.

Top 5 participants in the open category:

For the complete standing of both Open and U12 Categories, please visit Open and U12 .