Event Date -- 1 & 2 Mar 2008, Saturday and Sunday

Reporting Time -- 2 pm on 1 Mar 2008, Saturday

Venue -- Bishan Xiangqi Club Club House, Bishan C.C. Classroom 3


第3届碧山杯全国象棋个人赛 -- List of 56 players as of 24 Feb 2008

第3届碧山杯全国象棋个人赛曁第1届碧山杯全国选区象棋团体赛

吴荣华 Bishan East
莫家维 Bishan East
符策权 Bishan East
莫家铭 Bishan East
符学栋 Kampong Glam
杨昭吉 Kampong Glam
严修美 Kampong Glam
陈仲贤 Kampong Glam
陈政利 Nanyang
洪培荣 Nanyang
邱政宇 Nanyang
廖铭濠 Nanyang
郭劲豪
王子艺
陈贤凯
符宏恺
谭敬龙
萧政隆
陈俊翰
曾凡钧
朱祖亮
林俊章
蔡俊杰
林超贤
张顺喜
郑智安
张友彬
赖俊杰
刘忆豪
杨丰义
陈靖龙
陈靖麟
庄才钧
吴钦华
徐乃隆
洪福阳
陈一龙
陈茗芳
沈世鹏
邱子扬
许家庆
张鸿耀
刘小玮
王锐荣
罗柱华
张锡炎
文传冠
张义荣
林奕寰
赵金山
龚敬文
李泗丰
林轩永
林伟杨
林俊任
林纯凯

be arranged in the descending order of age, we have 57 players from 76 years old to 11 years old as of 25 Feb 2008 ....

50 years old or above -- 10 players (two special prizes if none qualify for other prizes)

35 to < 50 -- 5 players

21 to < 35 -- 17 players

15 to < 21 -- 17 players

< 15 -- 8 players (one special prize if none qualify for other prizes)

01 杨昭吉
02 严修美
03 符策权
04 符学栋
05 罗柱华
06 吴钦华
07 吴荣华
08 徐乃隆
09 张锡炎
10 陈政利
11 林俊章
12 文传冠
13 张义荣
14 张鸿耀
15 林奕寰
16 赵金山
17 陈仲贤
18 洪培荣
19 蔡俊杰
20 张友彬
21 刘小玮
22 庄才钧
23 龚敬文
24 张顺喜
25 李泗丰
26 林超贤
27 郑智安
28 杨丰义
29 邱政宇
30 王锐荣
31 莫家铭
32 朱祖亮
33 莫家维
34 陈一龙
35 郭劲豪
36 林轩永
37 林伟杨
38 王子艺
39 陈贤凯
40 林俊任
41 林纯凯
42 洪福阳
43 赖俊杰
44 陈茗芳
45 符宏恺
46 刘忆豪
47 廖铭濠
48 谭敬龙
49 萧政隆
50 陈俊翰
51 郭文轩
52 曾凡钧
53 陈靖龙
54 沈世鹏
55 邱子扬
56 许家庆
57 陈靖麟

so, just pick those good in fast game ? :P

林俊章, 赵金山, 蔡俊杰, 张友彬, 林超贤, 洪福阳, 刘忆豪, 廖铭濠


after picking, I compare my list with 火云邪神's list :


and notice that just need to compare 刘忆豪 vs 卷心菜 .....

hope to get at least 30 points from my list, hehehe....

although there are so many special prizes, at the end, in 2006, we gave prizes to Top 27, so this time, in 2008, may be we do not need to apply the special conditions again and give prizes to Top 29......, so 20th position still have a good chance to win.... :D

should be able to pass the following Bishan forms to him ....

2008年3月8日甘榜格南象棋个人快棋赛

--吴荣华
--洪福阳
--陈茗芳



2008年3月9日甘榜格南象棋双打赛

--郑木兴 and 林松宽

any more forms from Bishan members ?

So far, since Nov 2004, we are using the software Sevilla for the pairing and ranking purposes. This is the 5th time (2004-1, 2005-1, 2006-2, 2007-0, 2008-1) we are going to test and use the software again (we use manual round robin system to handle internal competitions with reference to the Green Book issued by Asian Xiangqi Federation.)



In this coming event, we are using the first 10 records (No. 01 to No. 10) and last 7 records (No. 50 to No. 57) to control the 3名分龄奖 if needed. We use the gender (program) to indicate members of Bishan Xiangqi Club for the allocation of 3名会员奖. We use Category for 3名分区奖 and Team for the allocation of team prizes if required. From the 2006 experience, most of the prizes if not all will be given to the Top 20 over positions. By the way, Swiss-perfect is the standard software used by SIXGA, we may consider to change at a later date. Initially, we plan to invite 王兴南先生与陈团生先生 to handle this coming 碧山杯, but since only 3 teams join the team event, we have decided to handle it in the same way as in 2006 as all works are about the same except we need to compute the ranking for the three teams if needed. This time, we will capture the player name in Chinese too (For 2006 Central Singapore Bishan Cup, we captured names in English only).

as absentees from Round 1 and we will adjust the pairings if time permits, they still can join from Round 2. As indicated by the rules, players absent for two rounds will be disqualified from the event.

If all 57 players present, I have the feeling that your prediction of pairing (蔡俊杰vs廖铭濠) is wrong.

By the way, for the coming competition, all 57 players are considered as individuals, we will not do any adjustment if there are pairings within same clubs or schools etc. This is the reason that we may use the age in descending order to number the records since all are players without grades.

In 2006, there were 7 graded players and we numbered them from No. 1 to No. 7 before any pairing so that they will not meet, say in the first few rounds.

say around


21 + 14 * 10/17 = ??? or 35 - 14 * 7/17 = ???


as your group of 17 (No 16 to No. 32) players is within the range of (21 to 35 years old).

Of course, another simple way is mid-point of (21 + 35) = ???

but if we study the distribution more closely, since only 5 players within the range of 35 to < 50, so for the 17 players within the range of 21 to < 35, likely more records will be closer to the end of 21 but not the end of 35.

So, logical guess is your age should be below the mid-point. :P

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50 years old or above -- 10 players (two special prizes if none qualify for other prizes)

35 to < 50 -- 5 players

21 to < 35 -- 17 players

15 to < 21 -- 17 players

< 15 -- 8 players (one special prize if none qualify for other prizes)

Yes, so far, we use the Swiss Pairing System feature in the Sevilla software, i.e. the ranking list from the previous rounds will be used for the pairing in the next round except Round 1 as all players are having the same ranking.

Regarding the pairing for Round 1, 卷心菜 could use a method to predict the pairing or even 先后手. (his prediction may be wrong.:P)

The working committee will discuss the pairing methods for Round 1 on 27 Feb 2008.

The random generator could be used as one of the methods, in addition to date of birth, ratings(say Top 8, Top 17, Top 29 etc, i.e. top few players do not meet in the first round or first few rounds). As mentioned, we have no graded players in this coming event.

We are using 2007年第4届碧山象棋会会员分级循环一局赛 and 2008第3届碧山杯全国象棋个人赛 as two examples 对外公开 (in 悟入棋途) the whole preparation processes. These could be useful to those who plan to organise internal/external xiangqi events for the first time.

In general, most of the xiangqi activities are planned with regular intervals, say once in one year, 2 years, 3 years or more. I hope that our (Bishan) active participations in 悟入棋途 since mid May 2007 (with me in my personal capacity) have generated some interests at least for a few players. We may set one year as our active participation period due to most of the activities are yearly affairs, i.e. we will pay attentions to those new activities but not the yearly repeated events.

Personally, I wish SIXGA can develop such platform soon for all Singapore xiangqi lovers.

during the 9 rounds of actual games, no visitor is allowed.

please note the reporting time of 2 pm on 1 Mar 2008, coming Saturday at

Bishan C.C. Classroom 3.


You may enter from the Bishan C.C. old office glass door, pass the newspaper reading area and to the classrooms 1, 2 & 3.

If you enter from the small door facing SIXGA office, you can see the entrance of Classroom 3.

We allow visitors only during the opening and closing ceremonies.

大会贵宾为碧山民众俱乐部管委会副主席及象棋会会务顾问郑炳树先生BBM (opening and closing)


嘉宾为象棋总会会长林关浩先生 (opening or/and closing), 白沙东象棋俱乐部主席李玉芝先生, 甘榜格南民众俱乐部象棋会副会长陈运灏先生 and ....

1 34陈一龙 15 $180 Trophy Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, Bishan member
2 26林超贤 15 $120 Trophy
3 20张友彬 15 $90 Trophy
4 16赵金山 13 $80 Trophy
5 11林俊章 13 $70 Trophy
6 23龚敬文 13 $60 Trophy
7 46刘忆豪 12 $50 Trophy
8 13张义荣 12 $40 Trophy
9 42洪福阳 12 $30 Plaque Bishan member award($30)
10 22庄才钧 12 $20 Plaque
11 18洪培荣 12 $20 Plaque
12 17陈仲贤 11 $20 Plaque
13 43赖俊杰 11 $20 Plaque
14 19蔡俊杰 11 $20 Plaque
15 28杨丰义 11 $20 Plaque
16 53陈靖龙 11 $30 Plaque Bishan member award($30), under 15 (12 years old)
17 47廖铭濠 10 - Plaque
18 36林轩永 10 - Plaque
19 38王子艺 10 - Plaque
20 29邱政宇 10 - Plaque
21 01杨昭吉 10 - Plaque Senior Citizen (76 years old), the eldest player
22 04符学栋 10 - Plaque Senior Citizen (67 years old)
23 57陈靖麟 10 $30 Plaque Bishan member award($30), under 15 (11 years old), the youngest player
24 08徐乃隆 9 - Plaque Bishan member
25 37林伟杨 9 - Plaque
26 39陈贤凯 9 - Plaque
27 44陈茗芳 9 - Plaque lady player, Bishan member
28 14张鸿耀 9 - Plaque
** 03符策权 8 - Plaque Bishan East resident, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, Senior citizen (67 years old), Bishan member

For 57 players registered, 52 turned up on 1st day, 1 Mar 2008, at the end of day 1, 1 withdrew, left 51 players.

At the beginning of day 2, 2 Mar 2008, 50 players turned up and played for Rounds 5, 6 & 7. 3 more players left after Round 7 and another 3 players left after Round 8.

So, there were 47 qualified players at the end of the competition and 44 players had completed all 9 rounds, the other 3 players completed only 8 rounds.

25 out of the 44 players completed all 9 rounds were from the various xiangqi clubs and 24 were in the list of 29 winners for 2008 Bishan Cup except one Bishan player, i.e. all xiangqi clubs are having 100 % winning rates except Bishan and I believe all clubs including Bishan are happy with the results.

Thanks to the support from all 57 players and all xiangqi clubs. :)


王子艺 Timothy Ong AJC
陈贤凯 Chan Xian Kai AJC
蔡俊杰 Chua Chun Kiat 义顺南 2006 Bishan Cup Winner
林俊章 Lim Choon Chiong 义顺南 2006 Bishan Cup Winner
林超贤 Lim Chau Sian 北斗
廖铭濠 Leow Meng Hao 文礼
赖俊杰 Lai Jun Jie 文礼
邱政宇 Yeow Zheng Yu 文礼
张友彬 Teo Yew Bing 文礼
洪培荣 Ang Puay Young 文礼
刘忆豪 Low Yi Hao 文礼
杨丰义 Yang Fengyi 波那维斯达
张义荣 Teo Gee Yong 淡滨尼东
陈仲贤 Tan Tiong Hiang 甘榜格南
符学栋 Foo Yoke Long 甘榜格南 2006 Bishan Cup Winner 2004 Bishan Cup Winner
杨昭吉 Yang Chow kit 甘榜格南
庄才钧 Zhuang Caijun 白沙东 飞鹰
陈靖龙 Tan Jing Long 白沙东 碧山
陈靖麟 Tan Jing Ling 白沙东 碧山
陈茗芳 Tan Min Fang 碧山
洪福阳 Ang Fu Yang 碧山 2006 Bishan Cup Winner
陈一龙 Tan Yick Loong 碧山
徐乃隆 Chee Nai Long 碧山 2006 Bishan Cup Winner 2004 Bishan Cup
符策权 Foo Seck Hin 碧山
林伟杨 Lim Wei Yang
林轩永 Lim Hsien Yong
龚敬文 Kong Jing Wen
赵金山 Chow Kim Sun
张鸿耀 Chang Hoong Yeow 2006 Bishan Cup

one Bishan player (Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC resident but not Bishan East resident) slept at SIXGA after Round 8 and turned up for Round 9 but too late for the game. He could have ranked 21st instead of 31st.

As indicated at the prize giving, the Top 28 and the best Bishan East resident player, total of 29 players were the winners as released.

Nanyang 11 + 17 + 20 + 57 = 105 (1st team)

Kampong Glam 12 + 21 + 22 + 57 = 111 (2nd team)

Bishan East 33 + 34 + 39 + 45 = 151 (3rd team)

Another story regarding the 21 plaques ($6.25 per plaque) .....

The Top 8 winners were given cash prizes (NTUC FairPrice vouchers) and Trophies ($21 per trophy).

For the other 21 winners, in general, those winners without cash prize were given plaques with Red wordings of 车 or 马 or 炮 and those with cash prizes were given plaques with black wordings of 车 or 马 or 炮.

I checked the photos taken last night and noticed that 一刀n断 is having plaque with Red wording of 车 and cash prize too.:D

the true reasons are I discovered the error after the first prize giving of plaque (red wording) to 一刀n断 (one photo taking) and before the prize giving to Bishan members, i.e. the cash prize given to him at this point (another photo taking).


this 八卦 news is for 卷心菜, on 一刀n断 too.

一刀n断 played with 邱子扬 in Round 8 and won. I think he should share the $20 (two $10) NTUC FairPrice Vouchers with 邱子扬. :D

competition area = Exam Hall in this 第3届碧山杯全国象棋个人赛.

Furthermore, the procedure for one of the two players going to toilet during the game is so clear and ended up quite a number of players know the procedure so well and stop their opponents from going to the toilet. SIXGA may wish to consider to use the same way of control for the 2008 Singapore Open, i.e. players can help to enforce or to reduce the admin works for the arbiters.

So, now I have only two more 2008 New Year wishes to think about ....