Malaysia vs Singapore in World Youth 2008

Posted by GilaChess

November 6, 2008

Since there is no Malaysia vs Singapore match this year, a comparison on the performance of the Malaysian-Singapore junior final ranking position in the World Youth will have to suffice.

Singapore sent 17 juniors compared to Malaysia’s 10.

Malaysia performed better than Singapore in the Open U10, Girls U12 and Open U12 section.

Singapore was better than Malaysia in terms of ranking in the Open U14, Open U16 and Girls U14.

This is of course very subjective and serves no accurate measure of who is better. It’s just an interesting visual comparison of the budding talent between the two countries.

(Bold indicates a better ranking vs the other counterpart(s) in that particular section)

Singapore

SNo		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Rk.	Group
25		Lim De-Li Derek	1715	6,5	30	Open 10
48		Lee Kai Jie Edward	0	4,0	72	Open 10
63		Chia Cheng-Yi Aloysius	0	6,0	38	Open 12
68		Iskandar Bin Abdullah	0	3,5	87	Open 12
91		Tan Kwang Shing Bryan	0	3,0	91	Open 12
13	CM	Chan Yi-Ren Daniel	2260	6,5	25	Open 14
17	FM	Chua Xing-Jian Graham	2229	7,0	16	Open 14
86		Tan Kwang-Yang Aaron	0	4,5	67	Open 14
47		Tan Weiliang	2040	6,0	26	Open 16
22	WFM	Monisha Raja Jawahar	1670	5,0	43	Girls 12
56		Najwa Jiahui Rujok	0	5,0	50	Girls 12
49		Lo Yin-Ling Melissa	1750	6,5	22	Girls 14
50		Neo Xiuwen Christabel	1716	4,5	58	Girls 14
32	WFM	Chan Wei-Yi Victoria	1902	6,0	23	Girls 16
48		Sia Xin-Jie Selina	1762	5,0	40	Girls 16
23		Goh Yi-Jie Jonathan	0	5,5	40	Open 08
56		Ow Jun Wai Ryan	0	5,0	51	Open 08

Malaysia

SNo	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Rk.	Group
7	Yeoh Li Tian	1955	7,0	14	Open 10
30	Aron Teh Eu Wen	0	6,0	37	Open 10
44	Lee Kah Meng Elgin	1811	6,0	36	Open 12
58	Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer	1844	4,0	74	Open 14
46	Ong Way Justin	2044	4,5	57	Open 16
3	Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada	0	6,0	22	Girls 08
27	Camilia Bt Johari	0	5,0	44	Girls 10
52	Nur Najiha Hisham	0	5,0	39	Girls 10
59	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	0	6,0	27	Girls 12
29	Bakri Alia Anin Azwa	1907	6,0	29	Girls 14

Also interesting to note that none of the Malaysian met the Singaporeans in any of the 11 rounds except for Monisha Raja Jawahar (SIN) vs Nur Nabila (MAS) in the Girls U12 section in which the latter won.

Still, it’s worrying we did not do better in the older categories because those are the tougher categories. We should aim to break into the top 20s in the next World Youth for our Under 14 and Under 16 categories. That would be a good indicator that there is long term improvement over the years.

Malaysian Chess

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