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Millennium
ends on a high note for
Penang
A 1-2-3
Sweep for Penang at the 1999 National Closed Chess
Championship!!!
1999 has been
a very satisfying year for the Penang Chess Association. In
August, the PCA emerged as the champion at the Merdeka
team chess championship in Kuala Lumpur and now, in
December, three players from Penang achieved an
unprecedented sweep of the national closed chess
championship which was also played in Kuala
Lumpur.
At the end of
the nine-round annual event, Lim Chuin Hoong, Jonathan Chuah
and Teng Wei Khoon finished in a three-way tie with equal
7.5 points each. As the rules of the championship allowed
for a play-off to decide the title, a double-roundrobin
tournament was quickly arranged by the Malaysian Chess
Federation. This was won convincingly by Jonathan Chuah who
pipped his two friends for the title of national champion.
Ng Tze Han and Khor Shihong also put up commendable
performances to finish within the Top 10 of the 67-player
championship.
Champions
yet again!!
It was a
nerve-wrecking campaign but in the end, Penang emerged as
the winner of the State section of the 18th Merdeka team
chess championship.
Penang also
finished second in the Youth section of the championship
while the CLOFA team from Penang came fourth in the
Open section. However, the Penang Girls and the Penang Free
School did not win any prizes in their respective
sections.
The Merdeka team
chess championship was played at the Putra World Trade
Centre in Kuala Lumpur from 29 to 31 Aug
1999.
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here to see more pictures!
Bayview
Chess League
In a cliffhanging finish
to the Penang Bayview ChessLeague, Penang Free School "A"
squeezed past Chung Ling High School "A" to lift the
challenge trophy for the
third successive year.
Both teams had finished with the same number of points, but
the tie-break favoured PFS "A" which had beaten
CLHS "A" when the two teams played earlier in the
competition. The chess league started on 6-Jun-1999 and
ended on 8-Aug-1999 at The City Bayview Hotel in Farquhar
Street, Penang.
FINAL
STANDINGS:
PREMIER
DIVISION: Penang
Free School A 24 points; Chung Ling High School
A 24 points; Chung Ling Old Boys Association
23.5 points; Old FreesAssociation 21.5 points;
Penang Free School B 12 points; Pessca 11 points;
Chung Ling High School B 10.5 points;
International College 9.5 points; St Xavier's
Institution 8 points.
DIVISION
ONE: Penang Free
School C 27 points; Dell A 25.5 points;Penang
Chess Association Novices 22.5 points; Chung Ling
High School C 21.5 points; Penang Development
Corporation 20 points, Chung Ling High
School
D 19.5 points;
Hitachi 17 points; MSSPP Girls 13 points;
Hewlett-Packard 11.5 points; Penang Free School
D 2.5 points.
DIVISION
TWO: Chung Hwa
Confucian School 23 points; Chung Ling High School
E 21.5 points;Penang Chinese Girls High School
20 points; Penang Chess Association Ladies 19
points; MSSPP Juniors 16.5 points; Union High
School 15.5 points; Penang Free School E 13.5
points; Dell B 13 points; Penang Free School F
2 points.
08-Aug-1999:
Results and Standings after Round Nine (Final)
Click
HERE
for
the background announcement on the
Ninth Penang Bayview Chess League
1999.
Singapore-Malaysia
Match
Six players
from Penang played in the double-round annual
Singapore-Malaysia Match which was held over 40 boards at
the Parkway Parade in Singapore on 31-July-1999 and
1-Aug-1999. Ooi Chern Ee, playing in the Men's
section, drew his games with Chan Peng Kong and Koh Kum
Hong. In the Under-20 section, Ng Tze Han won both
games against Gene Ong. In the Under-16 section, Lim
Chuin Hoong defeated Tay Shi Hwa and Christopher Chan,
while Khor Shihong drew with Kenny Yeng and lost to
Eugene Wee. Jonathan Chuah played in the Under-14
section and he scored a win and a draw against Luke Leong.
Lim Jean Nie beat Michelle Seto and Lin Wen Yan in
the Girls' Under-16 section.
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