Rifqah Wins Gold In Rapids

13 October 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Last night Puteri Rifqah Fahada Bt Azhar finally got it right by winning the precious gold medal for team Malaysia at the 5th APSSO chess rapid individual girls category. Rifqah scored 5.5 points from 7 rounds of rapid play held over two days. She managed to reduce her draws to just one and won all the others. Congratulations to Rifqah for persevering hard and gritty enough by winning and confirming her top seeding.

Meanwhile Yeoh Li Tian suffered a slight setback by winning the Silver medal for Malaysia. Li Tian lost to Novendra Priasmoro of Indonesia  in the fourth round of play. Novendra eventually finished as the champion of the boys individual rapid event.

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Li Tian, Rifqah Leading Malaysia’s Charge At APPSO

 

11 October 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At the 5th ASEAN Primary School Sport Olympiad (APPSO) 2011, our Malaysian contingent of boys and girls are doing Malaysia proud. Yeoh Li Tian (pix above) of Malaysia had won the Individual Boys Standard Chess event with 5.5 points from six rounds.

Meanwhile Puteri Rifqah Fahada bt Azhar (pix above) of Malaysia maintain her unbeaten record in the Individual Girls Standard Chess by scoring 4.5 points from a single round robin format of seven rounds. Rifqah finished in second place behind Shanti Nur Abidah who scored 5.0 points. In the first round, Puteri Rifqah beat Shanti Nur Abidah. Unfortunately Puteri Rifqah scored three draws in her subsequent rounds whereas Shanti kept winning her rounds.

 

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