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It was a tough fight for this cup. But with some help from the god of luck and teamwork, we did it! I was playing the 1st board. So my opponents were mostly rather good one. In this tournament, they will try to arrange the teams of equal no. of wins to meet after every round. So our opponents will supposely get stronger after each round.
Our 1st game is vs SRJC team A. Don't look down on SRJC lor! They won 4th position. Pengfei and Kah seng won their opponents but Dianyang lost. I was the only player left and I was pressurised. I have to at least draw to get this overall win. I requested draw to my opponent after a while and he accepted. I earned a piece, have more soldiers and more time left. But the game is in very critical situation. I might just lost if I moved 1 step wrongly. He was also not confident of killing me so we drew and get this win of 5-3.
Our 2nd game is vs RJC team B. It was an easy win. We thrashed opponent 8-0. My opponent moved a wrong move at the 8th move and allow me to break his defense. My cannon and car went all the way down his territory and killed a shi. He made another fatal mistake later. I smiled to him before moving my piece and said,"Check! Earn car." He was thrashed and don't have the chance to strike back.
Our 3rd game is vs AJC team B. We defeated them 7-1. I earned a piece after a long fight and then my opponent was demoralised. He resigned a while later when he got no more attacking pieces while I still got 3 soldiers and 1 cannon.
Our 4th game is vs MJC. MJC also won their 3 opponents and even thrashed VJC 7-1. We had a tough fight with them. I rested for this round and let liang yuan played. He drew and our captain won. But our remaining 2 boards looked weak. Dianyang won after a tough fight. Luck was shining on Kah Seng as he by luck killed his opponent though he was almost losing.
Our 5th game is finally vs AJC team A. We have to fight them as we r the only 2 teams left with all wins so far. Kah Seng stunted everyone in the tables by defeating Yicheng with only about 30 mins in the game (btw, each player were given 1 hr thinking time). Dianyang lost, followed by me later when I was defeated by my ex-classmate, Joseph Chua. Our captain then fought hard to win Jack Moy resulting in overall 4-4 draw.
Our 6th game was vs TPJC team A. We were stunned while Kah Seng who was winning all his games so far lost very early. I looked around and saw that Dianyang was in the disadvantage. I was in even deeper shit then. My opponent had 2 cannons and a car right at my base and I could only defend. Our captain then won and Dianyang drew. The pressure is now on me as the score now is 3-3. So I can only afford to win so as to get the overall win. All my team mates crowded around me and I felt a lot of pressure. I set up a trap and to my delight, my opponent fell into it, letting me earn a horse. The table then turned. My extra horse then helped me to get this crutial win to get 5-3 overall win. All my team mates were overjoyed and congrated me when I stood up.
Our last game is vs VJC team B. I had an easy game, earning pieces right from the start. When my opponent resigned, he had no more attacking pieces and I had 1 cannon, 2 horses and 3 soldiers left. We won them 7-1.
Our game pts is then on par with AJC team A. However, since the opponents we met got higher score in the end, we were crowned champion (a bit unfair actually I felt). This is the 1st time in NJC history that we won 1st. Our captain also won individual lightning chess champion too. After prize presentation, 4 of us together with sec school team champion and girl individual champion fought with a grand master who played against all the 8 boards at a time. The 4 of us resigned after an hour plus when we were slightly disadvantage so that we can get to eat our lunch. Mind u, it was 4pm that time and we haven't taken our lunch. All of us went to Long John Silver to celebrate the win...
This win taught me an impt lesson. Nothing is impossible if u got the mentality to win. A few times I felt like giving up when I had a hard game but the captain encouraged me and told me not to die. It is his encouragement that gave me the strength to fight back. I would like to thank everyone in the team for their fighting spirit esp the captain. This win will remain in my memory for the rest of my life...
Ah bing || Friday, June 10, 2005
