Okay, here's a long poem I wrote to get all these roiling, pent up emotions off my chest. Too many contradicting events have happened all at once -- that's why I got so angry, frustrated, without the freedom nor power to salvage the situation for myself. Hopefully this poem will explain it all, and also serve as a concluding closure to this fiasco. I never wished for it to happen -- why, I was so excited and happy watching the B division finals last night. The match by Wan Yin and Wang Zhen Wei, the long-drawn game between Lum Sum Kok and Chi Yi Nan. I felt the heat of their play -- Lum had a cannon and a horse in the endgame, versus Chi's single horse and double advisors. Though it was an "old man's game", I retained the patience to watch it out till the final move. Who says I didn't wish to be in the competition still, sitting at one of the tables playing my final game? It doesn't matter which ranking -- the excitment of the finals would always live in my memory. Yet all these events coming together... saw my withdrawal from the competition. Sigh.....

Here's the poem. Interpret it however you will. That's the beauty of Art.

Poem:
The Crucifixion

Too many coincidences have happened the past week:
the stoppage of my Chinese chess competition
because of a charge from the military camp
that saw me confined for a long, long dreary week;
a phantom attacker r-i-p-p-i-n-g my name apart
on an online forum for chess lovers
claiming my cheating in the competition.

People read, started believing his lies, & thought
my withdrawal from the competition
was because of the judge's
long finger of dismissal.

They were wrong. But no matter
how many dozen, thousand letters of self-defense
I typed, putting my real name out in the open
braving the critic-fire of disbelievers
would anyone believe me?

Would anyone deduce
(and here I apologize for the lack
of space for Imagination, but crude precision)
that Fate had put me at a crossroads,
cooped me in camp while strangers
crucified my name out in the open?

Oh I may only rant, and rave, and sing my innocence
yet unless the cheat can come out
and show his rodent face of cowardice
my name may never be resurrected
in the crucifying eyes of the cold public.

Or could the gradual power of silence
speak my innocence with time? Presumed deeds
slowly forgotten, & put away, like another loss
in the chess competition, the one
that knocked me out from the crucial finals.

Thank you for the experiences, everyone. I had fun in those four short games of chess in the tourney. :)

Sincerely, Dan

Congratulations, Wang Yin! I enjoyed watching you play.

七台的预测只中了三台。看来不管是足球或者是象棋，赛前预测的饭碗都不好端啊。

第九轮 27/06/2012 星期三 晚上8:00pm
台 红方 积分 黑方 积分

1 王镇伟 Ong Zhen Wei (19) [6] .5:.5 王印 Wang Yin (3) [7]
2 迟益南 Chu Yinan (8) [6.5] 0:1 梁燊虢 Leong Sum Kok (10) [5.5]
3 郭昱荣 Kwek J Y Denson (18) [5] 0:1 叶德明 Yap Teck Ming (16) [5.5]
4 黄晓华 Huang Xiaohua (1) [5] 1:0 王智泉 Justin Ong (5) [5]
5 戴文翔 Tai Boon Siang (7) [5] 1:0 魏志偉 Ngoi Chi Wai (4) [5]
6 翁文龙 Ong Boon Leong (17) [4.5] 1:0 谢昀达 Seah Yun Da Bryan (9) [5]
7 杜耀宗 Toh Yeow Chong (31) [4.5] 1:0 刘富强 Liu Fuqiang (26) [4.5]
8 卓成国 Toh Sin Kok (33) [4.5] 1:0 陈忠信 Chan Chung Shun (12) [4]
9 曾喡翔 Chan Wei Xiang (27) [4] 0:1 陈良铭 Tan Liang Ming (13) [4]
10 罗凌轲 Luo Lingke (36) [4] 0:1 陈世昌 Chin Shih Chang (2) [3.5]
11 吴得顺 Goh Test Soon (14) [3.5] 1:0 苏添福 Soh Thiam Hock (11) [3.5]
12 徐金飞 Xu Jin Fei (28) [3.5] .5:.5 卓新威 Zhuo Xin Wei (22) [3.5]
13 王艺飞 Wang Yifei (35) [3.5] .5:.5 蔡栩彬 Cai Xu Bin (25) [3.5]
14 李立道 Li Li Dao (20) [3] 0:1 杨小忠 Yang Xiaozhong (32) [3]
15 陈捷森 Tan Jie Sen (24) [3] 1:0 姚永蔚 Shawn Yeo (23) [2.5]
16 张世成 Myat Min Htet (29) [1] 1:0 张哲铭 Chong Zhe Ming (34) [2.5]
17 胡博勇 Woo Bo Yung (21) [2.5] 1:0 BYE

“郑海文杯”Ｂ组 首阶段排名

积分 对手分 胜局
1 王印 Wang Yin 7.5 49.0 6
2 迟益南 Chu Yinan 6.5 50.0 6
3 梁燊虢 Leong Sum Kok 6.5 45.5 6
4 王镇伟 Ong Zhen Wei 6.5 45.0 6
5 叶德明 Yap Teck Ming 6.5 40.5 6
6 黄晓华 Huang Xiaohua 6 51.5 6
7 戴文翔 Tai Boon Siang 6 50.0 5
8 杜耀宗 Toh Yeow Chong 5.5 47.0 4 *后手胜局=3；

【以上八人进入次阶段之淘汰赛，决定最终名次】

9 翁文龙 Ong Boon Leong 5.5 47.0 4 *后手胜局=2；
10 卓成国 Toh Sin Kok 5.5 40.0 4
11 谢昀达 Seah Yun Da Bryan 5 47.5 4
12 王智泉 Justin Ong 5 45.5 3
13 郭昱荣 Kwek J Y Denson 5 43.0 3
14 魏志偉 Ngoi Chi Wai 5 42.0 5
15 陈良铭 Tan Liang Ming 5 33.5 3
16 刘富强 Liu Fuqiang 4.5 43.0 3
17 陈世昌 Chin Shih Chang 4.5 36.5 4
18 吴得顺 Goh Test Soon 4.5 34.5 3
19 罗凌轲 Luo Lingke 4 45.0 3
20 陈忠信 Chan Chung Shun 4 41.0 4
21 杨小忠 Yang Xiaozhong 4 39.5 4
22 蔡栩彬 Cai Xu Bin 4 39.0 2
23 徐金飞 Xu Jin Fei 4 38.0 2
24 卓新威 Zhuo Xin Wei 4 37.5 3
25 曾喡翔 Chan Wei Xiang 4 36.5 3
26 王艺飞 Wang Yifei 4 33.0 3
27 陈捷森 Tan Jie Sen 4 30.5 4
28 苏添福 Soh Thiam Hock 3.5 38.5 2
29 胡博勇 Woo Bo Yung 3.5 31.0 2
30 李立道 Li Li Dao 3 38.0 2
31 张哲铭 Chong Zhe Ming 2.5 36.0 1
32 姚永蔚 Shawn Yeo 2.5 30.5 1

33 陈中和 Tan Zhong He 2.5 28.0 2*退出比赛
34 赖颖正 Lai Ying Jeng 2 31.0 2*退出比赛
35 张世成 Myat Min Htet 2 31.0 1
36 欧阳锐豪 Brandon Ou Yang 0 16.0 0*退出比赛

阿Q精神万岁！

再接再厉! 我觉得你有进4强的实力.

我还以为鲁尼归队后的英格兰有进入决赛的实力，没想到刚出八强就给人砍下来。

我会尽力的。

谦虚，经过2年观察，是真的。

我既然敢把自己过去和现在所有的棋谱发上悟入棋途，就不怕别人赛前来悟入棋途搜索我的棋局做研究和准备。

就像我们在群里讨论过的，我的棋中残是弱项，常常随手，但是我布局自认还可以，我把棋贴上来的目的：

1. 做个网络备份，假期回国有空能来悟入棋途温习自己的对局，也可以让我父亲看到我的对局(我爸也是个棋迷）。

2. 和大家一起探讨棋局变化，共同进步。

3. 让对手针对我的布局准备好N把飞刀，这样自己才能学习到新的飞刀，胜败乃兵家常事，输棋太正常不过了，哪个下棋的高手不是输出来的？但是输了后能知道自己中了哪把飞刀，然后加以学习改正，既能避免以后自己再中刀，也能在以后别人的比赛中借用学来的飞刀，何乐不为？

I will never trust ppl until I really saw it...take it easy bro

不过棋路多点变化总是好的

只要先掌握对手容易犯错那些，然后就看你的学派是博大精还是深。

Thank you my friend, for supporting me. Need I say more?

PS: Yinan, when you are free, lemme know and we can meet at Bishan for a game of chess. Ok?