It took a painstaking 5 hours before Junming lost on the fact that he was totally clueless about the rule that he has to complete 25 moves in 30 minutes for the tie breaker games. A pity. After the match, he himself told the author that he could have taken down the tie-breaker game if not for the rulings.
Tie-breaker Game 1 Junming (red) vs Wu Zong Han
Junming felt even more pain as he has managed to grind out a draw in a very disadvantageous endgame (Zong Han having car horse full defence attacking his car cannon 1 elephant). In that game, Junming has cleverly used the Asian ruling one check one kill to force a draw, despite losing the elephant in the process.
The ending position is something like that as shown above (might have error but the gist is there). Junming can R34 and R43, forcing Zong Han to accept the draw.
In the 3rd and 4th placing match, Guolong managed to capitalise on Zheng Xiang Fu mistake and win the match to secure a third. This is the first time he has actually entered the top 3, an achievement over 2 4th placing he has obtained previously.
As for the 5th to 8th positions, they are:
5th Xu Xin (an old master who is still currently playing for Boon Lay)
6th Zhu Yong Ji
7th Ni Fu Liang
8th Qiu Guan Jie
Congratulations to Guo Long and Xu Xin; and to all the winners as well.
Huang Yi Hong (red) win Liu Jian Hui
