8th MBSSKL Open Chess Tournament: Update#4 [Under-23 Boys & Girls]

In the Girls category, the strength of the players in this edition is lower than past editions with the tournament top ranked player having a National Rating around 1300-level. The star player of event is definitely belongs to unrated Nur Amira Muhd Yusri who chalked up 5 wins in-a-row including against tournament 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th ranked players. She won the event before lifting a finger in the final round. For some unknown reason, she lost her last round encounter to 12th ranked Nio Chai Sin.  Yow Chooi Yee and Cheng Sheun Fang had to settle for Silver and Bronze respectively.

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As for the Boys Category, top seed 13 y.o. Tan Yong Zhao who had finished as bridesmaid to MBSSKL Albert Ang would like stage a challenge again for the Championship. Again, he had failed when he lost to eventual Champion, Kung Kah Heng, in Round 3 followed by another lost to Albert in Round 5 and had to settle for Bronze position. As for Albert, his championship campaign looks over with a Round 4 defeat at the hand of Kung Heng but little did he know (maybe he knew - just that he didn't want to take risk in his own game) he will be declared as Champion if he had won his last round encounter against fellow teammate Derek Poon due to superior 1st tie-break count over Kah Heng where the lattle had settle for 2 draws in the last 2 rounds. All tie-breaks that are used were mentioned before Round 1 begins (No P/E use in this event) and up-to-date after Round 5 tie-break was published before the last round begins. A point to ponder - What makes Albert ends up with a tactical blunder on statistic calculation rather than actual chess position itself that cost MBSSKL at least a Championship title.

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