DATCC Team League - Round 7 ( Photo and games)

FM Mok Tze Meng ( left ) SMS Gold beat Varien Thien (Right) DATCC

Varien Thien - FM Mok Tze Meng
DATCC Team League (Round 7), 03.06.2009

White has just played 1.Rxg6. Look scary at first but Mok keeps his cool and win quite easily after ...

1...Rxe5+ 1...Nxg6 also win after 2.Bxg6 Rxe5+ 2.Kd1 i didn't know what Mok play from here but he won the game shortly. Obviously black should win easily after 2...Nxg6 3.Bxg6 fxg6 4.Qxg6+ Kd7 0-1

IM Giam Choo Kwee - (left) Tan & Tan, suffered a heavy defeat against Nor Ilhamuddin (right) Nusa Mahkota Chess Club . Probably the ice lemon tea drink is Ilham's secret weapon !?

Jax Tham ( left) Spawn 2009 vs FM Lim Yee Weng ( right) Gold Is

Jax Tham - FM Lim Yee Weng
DATCC Team League (Round 7), 03.06.2009

This game was the last to finish. The position below is totally draw. Yee Weng only need to exchange white's h-pawn to ensure it.

1...Kf3 2.Nf6 Kg2 2...g3 3.hxg3 Kxg3 also draw 3.Nxg4 h5 4.Ne5 Kxh2 5.Ng6 ½–½

FM Ooi Chern Ee (left) SMS Gold playing board 1 against Andrew The Gilachess playing for

DATCC. If you noticed , there is a stapler bullet box near Andrew's left elbow .

I have the honour to play against our first National Champion - NM Choo Min Wang. He won the national title in 1974 - 2 years before i was born.

Hairul(ov) - NM Choo Min Wang [D02]
DATCC Team League (Round 7), 03.06.2009

I got a very slight ( or should i call it micro !?) advantage here due to black isolated c -pawn. However i was quite worried about black's active bishop on b7 and his queen who could give serious pressure along the a8-h1 diagonal. Especially checkmating attack on g2 !

17.Nf3 Qh5 18.Ne5 Qg5 19.Nf3 Qh5 19...Qf4 20.Qe5 Qxe5 21.Nxe5 with better chance for white. 20.Ne5 Qg5 21.Nf3 i could try for more with 21.g3 but i'm afraid black bishop will look more dangerous so i offer a draw which accepted by my great opponent ½–½