It's actually yesterday's history but when I got back I was too tired to blog. It's like you're squeezing every single drop of your brain juice for the past 6 hours... This year I got lucky. Whee.
Round 3 started at 8.30am. THE WORST THING HAPPENED. I was matched against SOON MING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG It's such a dilemma. I don't wanna play my friend but I want to win as well. But it's Soon Ming. So how?... If we agreed for a draw then both of us will not make it to the top 10 tables. In the end we still decided to kill each other.. hmm.. throughout the match well none of us is playing soft. But in the end. I'm sorry I had to do this. Still it was a great match. So that's one point for me. And zero for him. Sobs. And Dyi Perng is way ahead of us. I think he's somewhere at table 10 already. We're at 17. ( It kinda represent our rankings. Table 1 of course is the best.)
Round 4, erm I played at table 8. The guy's name was Hariz. Forgot which school he's from. We were like chit-chatting throughout the game. LOL the two indians at table 7 are like doing some tamil rap. Anyway won that one as well.
Well now I'm really freaking out cause I'm now at table 4 against a chinese guy from Tun Aminah. He defeated last year's champion before. The last champ, Tham, was at table 5 slightly behind me. I think he made one mistake and flunked one game. Anyway within like 10 moves I was already offering a draw. I just don't know what to do when he starts to slaughter me. He declined it and played on. FINALLY, my combination exchange tactic hit him real hard. I manage to win his rook for free. Now it's draw no more, I'm winning. And in the end he fought real hard but the extra rook for me really got him tangled up. I won! ( pure luck.. he just needed to be more careful.. or maybe he wasn't thinking too much as he probably takes me as a lousy opponent.. duhs.)
But winning isn't what I planned for, things got worse. I reached table 2 by round 6. My opponent was Muhd Syafiq from SSI. This time I'm really dead. REALLY REALLY. I lost this one. But my fatal mistake is to sacrifice my knight. I don't know what got into me to make that move. I could've played better. Too nervous I guess. Anyway a lost is a lost.
Last round I dropped to table 7. Slightly out of the top ten. That time I had won 4 rounds, lost one and drew one. So that's a 4.5 for me. I was facing David Ho form 5 guy. And now Tham was at table 6 slightly in front of me. ( Surely he didn't lose round 6) And it was a weird game. Only 13 moves and we're down to bishops, rooks , and knights. The queens were off the board already. I was up a pawn and I kept on exchanging pieces. Finally I queened my pawn. Unfortunately he did it as well. Though I managed to fork his queen with a check and he had to take it. I queened my final pawn as he had nothing left. Nailed him. 5.5 points. final score.
But there are lots of 5.5 pointers.. like 10 or so. And I don't know their scoring scheme. Progressive score, accumulative score and others. So we waited for the final result. LOL I got number 8 among 120 players. Tham got no.9. That syafiq I lost to either champion or no. 2. Well it's not enough to go for MSSJ but good enough for me. Last year under 15 I had 5.5 as well but wasn't in top 10. Lucky me this year. Rough day. And tough luck for Soon Ming ( 4.5) and Dyi perng ( 4.0).
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