For the third time, chess was highlighted live on Vietnam national TV.
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Here are some random pictures.
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The bus will be leaving in 30 minutes so this will be my last post till I get back in Malaysia in about 11 hours from now!
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These are the youngsters who are the top 5 winners of the World Youth 2008 in the Under 8 Open category.
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Today is departure day and I’m following the Malaysian team on the same bus. We are leaving early even though the flight is in 7 hours. Better be safe than sorry.
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It takes 3 hours by bus from Vung Tau to Ho Chin Minh airport which is 120 km away.
I can’t wait to get back and be back in KL again. No more chess at least for some time. Have to take a break from chess.
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Graffitti left on the giant Knights outside of the entrance of the Stadium for the World Youth Chess Championship 2008. With 73 countries taking part both the Knights are filled with word.
Ok. I left my mark there too 
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Most of the delegates will be returning home tomorrow. The Malaysian team did remarkably well considering this is an International event and youth tournaments are always tough.
Results being collected and final results being prepared.
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One more round to go but there are already clear winners. WGM Valentina Golubenko
is already the champion for the Girls Under 16 in the World Youth Chess Championship.
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There was a black out yesterday in the World Youth Chess Championship. Almost immediately the arboters and helpers brought out electric lamps to provide enough light. I’m impressed that they were so well prepared and quick to react on such things. Less than 5 minutes the power was restored.
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This is Nguyen Huynh Minh Thien – a Vietnamese who is the youngest participant in the World Youth Chess Championship.
He learnt the game at the tender age 2½ years old!! His mother is a Women National Champion and is a coach. He picked up the game after showing interest while seeing her mother coach other children.
Although he has only 2 points from 9 games Minh Thien is only 4 years old! This means he can possibly take part in the World Youth for another 3 editions of the World Youth under the Open 8 category!
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Righteous Kill ipod So far the highest scorers are Yeoh Li Tian and NWM Alia Anin Azwa Bakri with 5 points out of 8 each. Li Tian lost vs Pavlo Vorontsov of Ukraine while Alia beat WFM Efroimski Masrel of Israel. Only 3 more rounds to go …
| Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pts. | Group | |
| Yeoh Li Tian | 1955 | MAS | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 5,0 | Open 10 | |
| Aron Teh Eu Wen | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4,5 | Open 10 | |
| Lee Kah Meng Elgin | 1811 | MAS | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 4,5 | Open 12 | |
| Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer | 1844 | MAS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 2,5 | Open 14 | |
| Ong Way Justin | 2044 | MAS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,5 | Open 16 | |
| Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada | 0 | MAS | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 4,5 | Girls 08 | |
| Camilia Bt Johari | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 4,0 | Girls 10 | |
| Nur Najiha Hisham | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3,5 | Girls 10 | |
| Nur Nabila Azman Hisham | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,5 | Girls 12 | |
| Bakri Alia Anin Azwa | 1907 | MAS | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 5,0 | Girls 14 |
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This is how the hall looks like from the stage of the World Youth 2008 Chess Championship. The top two boards for every age group is played on the stage and the games are broadcasted live via DGT boards.
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In case you don’t know who he is, Ignatius Leong is a very active organiser of chess tournaments in Asia. He is also the FIDE Secretary-General and President of the ASEAN Chess Confederation. as well as the Chairman of the FIDE Development Commission. He has also played in 3 Olympiads!
Here’s a side of Ignatius many people haven’t seen before. He sings! The above took place at the Social and Talent night which was a welcomed break from the monotony of daily chess tournaments of the World Youth 2008 currently underway in Vung Tau Vietnam.
No, Ignatius is not taking part in the competition which has a first prize of EURO 1,200 but just filling the time before the final results are announced.
The man can sing!
PS: The song is originally Russian but sang in Vietnamese.
(strikeout because of erroroneous fact in Wikipedia – not everything in Wikipedia is 100% correct!!)
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | Rk. | Group | |
| 7 | Yeoh Li Tian | 1955 | MAS | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4,5 | 12 | Open 10 | |
| 30 | Aron Teh Eu Wen | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 2,5 | 55 | Open 10 | |
| 44 | Lee Kah Meng Elgin | 1811 | MAS | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 3,0 | 48 | Open 12 | |
| 58 | Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer | 1844 | MAS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 2,5 | 59 | Open 14 | |
| 46 | Ong Way Justin | 2044 | MAS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 2,5 | 49 | Open 16 | |
| 3 | Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada | 0 | MAS | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 3,0 | 24 | Girls 08 | |
| 27 | Camilia Bt Johari | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 2,5 | 45 | Girls 10 | |
| 52 | Nur Najiha Hisham | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3,5 | 27 | Girls 10 | |
| 59 | Nur Nabila Azman Hisham | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3,5 | 24 | Girls 12 | |
| 29 | Bakri Alia Anin Azwa | 1907 | MAS | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 3,0 | 39 | Girls 14 |
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Source: Chess-Results.com
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| Bo. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | ||
| 1 | Ghosh Diptayan | IND | 2041 | 5½ | - | 5 | Mousavi Seyed Khalil | IRI | 2042 | |
| 2 | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2013 | 5 | - | 5 | FM | Pichot Alan | ARG Hood of Horror movie download | 1925 |
| 3 | Wang Yi Ye | CHN | 0 | 5 | - | 5 | Xu Yi | CHN | 0 | |
| 4 | Markoja Boris | SLO | 1732 | 5 | - | 4½ | Yeoh Li Tian | MAS | 1955 | |
| 5 | Lorpari Zangeneh Shahin | IRI | 0 | 4½ | - | 4½ | CM | Arjun Bharat | IND The Death and Life of Bobby Z dvd | 1853 |
| 6 | Vorontsov Pavlo | UKR | 0 | 4½ | - | 4½ | Petrosyan Manuel | ARM | 1780 | |
| 7 | Asgarizadeh Ahmad | IRI | 2026 | 4 | - | 4 | Acosta Pablo Ismael | ARG | 0 | |
| 8 | Baatardorj Batkhishig | MGL | 0 | 4 | - | 4 | Mahapatra Sidhant | IND | 2001 | |
| 9 | Khodashenas Mersad | IRI | 1929 | 4 | - | 4 | Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tri | VIE | 0 | |
| 10 | Chen Baining | CHN | 0 | 4 | - | 4 | CM | Sanal Vahap | TUR | 1873 |
Today is a rest day and let’s wish the Malaysia team good luck for round 7 onwards. I have a feeling Malaysia can get at least one medal this time.
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Whenever chess is shown on broadcast TV I always miss it. The closest I got to watching was when someone SMSed saying that Encik Suhairi was on TV being interviewed before going to Danang. I turned on the TV too late for that.
At least this time I manage to catch the online recorded version thanks to Hairulov’s post on the World Youth on TV.
I repost it here with the non-chess bits edited out.
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I got this 7 second clip of Malaysia’s performance:-
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This is the hotel I’m staying in. It’s also the same one as where the Malaysian contingent is staying too.
My room which has one twin bed and a single.
It’s a nice hotel with chalet style rooms. The rooms are big and the hotel serves better food than one of the 4 star hotel nearby.
I have been having buffet style food and getting fat!
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When the chess participants go home after a long battle over the chess board my work is just beginning. This is the third night I stayed up late to help with the bulletins. The last 2 nights I did not get to sleep. Luckily this morning I got to catch up with some sleep.
Didn’t really have time to see how our Malaysian team is doing as I didn’t go to the playing hall today where it’s the only day two rounds are played.
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Here’s the results summary from chess-results.com
| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pts. | Rk. | Group | |
| 7 | Yeoh Li Tian | 1955 | MAS | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 2,5 | 33 | Open 10 | |
| 30 | Aron Teh Eu Wen | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 41 | Open 10 | |
| 44 | Lee Kah Meng Elgin | 1811 | MAS | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 2,0 | 51 | Open 12 | |
| 58 | Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer | 1844 | MAS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 53 | Open 14 | |
| 46 | Ong Way Justin | 2044 | MAS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 42 | Open 16 | |
| 3 | Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada | 0 | MAS | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 2,5 | 13 | Girls 08 | |
| 27 | Camilia Bt Johari | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1,5 | 47 | Girls 10 | |
| 52 | Nur Najiha Hisham | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1,5 | 48 | Girls 10 | |
| 59 | Nur Nabila Azman Hisham | 0 | MAS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 2,5 | 25 | Girls 12 | |
| 29 | Bakri Alia Anin Azwa | 1907 | MAS | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 2,0 | 38 | Girls 14 |
At a glance, the Malaysian team did moderately better than the last 2 days with 5 wins coming from Yeoh Li Tian, Aron Teh, Muhamad Syakir, Justin Ong, and Nur Nabila.
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