Had SP chess challenge for the weekend, HCI A, consisting of zixian, leslie and mi got champion for the college/poly category!! YAY! That marks the 2nd championship we got for this yr =) .

Well, I supposed everything turned out fine after all, the 3 of us were not actually on form. During the week before the competition we had numerous practice sessions and nvr once we failed to ask a stupid question or make a stupid move ... It seemed very likely tt this competition would turn out quite screwed, but seems tt we are cleverer under competition conditions.

A lot of unhappy things happened last wk as well, com broke down, block tests results etc. Had no competition mood at all and true enough I lost my third game with Ji Fang, a RV player on the first day. Now my personal record with him is 1 win 1 draw 1 lose, he was so happy when he won mi, haha at least I helped someone make his day.

Second day was better, won all my games excluding the last one since the high school side threw us up. Competition was really intense, by the end of the first day, AJ was leading us by half a point (same scenario as Raffles Cup) but we overtook them on the 2nd day by winning them in a head on match =) . Furthermore, with SP hot on our heels, the high sch side juz threw us up in the last round, ensuring our champion position.

HCI simply owns --- For the Weiqi section, HCI got 1st,2nd,3rd in the secondary sch section, 1st and 3rd in the JC/Poly section. For the C chess section, HCI got 2nd and 3rd for the secondary sch section, 1st in the JC/Poly section. For the I chess section, HCI got 2nd in the secondary sch section. Because of this, HCI got the overall best performing sch award for both the secondary and JC/Poly section, hence winning the Ronnie Tan and Michael Siong's Challenge Trophy.

In addition congrats to Zixian and Liu Yang who got blitz champion for c chess and i chess respectively. Also to Jinxiang who got blitz 3rd for c chess.

Haha, well to make us more motivated to win on the 2nd day, zixian, leslie and I had an agreement that whoever fails to win had to treat the other members 10 Kitkats each. The victim for this agreement was Zixian, who accidentally lost his match with XianKai today, haha so 20 Kitkats for mi and leslie =) . Later on, we decided to change to Kinder Bueno since it's cheaper and nicer.

Zixian also selfdestructed himself by promising the sec 1/2 team tt he would award them $32 if they actually did well in an attempt to motivate them. In the end, the sec 1/2 team got 2nd in the sec sch section!! Surprisingly, they performed betta than their seniors ... Haha, money makes the world go round.

Some unhappy stuff happened during this competition as well. There was a major conflict between a RV and a SP player during the last round. The match was damn intense and both of them were moving so fast such tt both of them dropped clock without realising it, but the SP player realised it first and announced tt his opponent dropped clock first, but the RV player refuted by saying tt the SP player dropped clock as well. In the end, after a long unpleasant argument, the victory went to the SP player since he realised his opponent dropped clock first. SP and RV became enemies after this incident to the extent tt it seemed as though RV actually considered boycotting the prize presentation ceremony, even though they were champs for the sec sch section.

My cat high friend cried after losing his last match =( , shows how seriously he treats his matches ... Well dun feel too sad William, I oso cried after flying the wrong elephant in my match with Peng Fei during sec 3 blitz, still rmb how badly my coach scolded mi for tt ... Everyone tot I cried becoze of the scolding, but in fact it was the overwhelming disappointment with myself ... I suppose he feels the same way, but nvm everyone makes mistakes, juz make sure we learn from them. Even the top players have selfdestructed themselves many times, so juz dun feel too bad abt it ...

Haha, thnx to the competition I havent done anything for chem AA, tuts nor the website for PW ... AHHHHHHHHHH. Must get back to studies soon, or everyone will be after my blood.

OK, gtg now ...

PS ==> Apologies if I got the spelling for Michael "Siong" wrong ... nvr knew how it's spelt :S

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Posted by innocent boy