Belated Summary of the 2012 Asian Continental

Dear readers,

First of all I want to apologize for neglecting my own blog. It's been more than 3 months since I posted the last entry here. A good 3-months actually which is worthy enough to share, especially about my chess life. So after my bad performance in Australia last April that fairly took much of my rating away, I've made a good comeback in the following month by winning the 11th Asian Continental that was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on May 4th-13th, securing a place in the 2014 Women's World Championship, and becoming the first Indonesian female to compete in such a glorious event. I would like to happily announce here that it was my highest achievement in chess so far. To top the Continent among those giant players from the notably strongest countries in Asia, namely China and India, is merely one's blessing that one could only wish for. Going there as the 19th seeded with a 2288 elo rating was simply removing my name from the favorite list. Being a 2300ish player for the last 4-5 years and suddenly dropping to 2288 was not that easy for me to accept. I wrote about it once as my status on Facebook that in order to jump higher, you have to bend your knees first which received a lot of positive comments to encourage me to get over the sadness and wishing me to do well in the very next event. And eventually yes, things turned to be good for me, psychologically, when I changed my mindset that to be an underdog was actually an advantage in such a situation and resulted in a lighter feeling during the games against much higher-rated opponents in Vietnam. That made me think that to have lost lots of rating in Australia was not a bad idea at all, but of course I didn't purposefully do it :)

What a fool I would be if I forget to name those who have helped me to go through the process. Therefore, I can proudly say that I'm so thankful to have a family like my own right now that never get tired of motivating me in all things. Papa, Mama, and my siblings: Kaisar and Diajeng, I love you all so dearly! :)

And to my closest ones: Junta, Lucy, Wei Ming, Gladys, and some others that are too many to mention here - for morally and technically helping and supporting me both in life and chess, and for just being there for me, thank you! :)

And now readers, please do enjoy the game that I selected to be annotated by myself from the aforementioned tournament.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1		WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	INA	2288	7.0	0.0	2413	47.5	9	7	3.65	3.35	15	50.3
2		WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	IND	2378	6.5	0.0	2358	43.0	9	6.5	5.31	1.19	15	17.9
3		WGM	Tan Zhongyi	CHN	2430	6.5	0.0	2342	44.5	9	6.5	5.79	0.71	10	7.1
4		WGM	Ding Yixin	CHN	2353	6.5	0.0	2339	44.5	9	6.5	5.21	1.29	15	19.4
5			Wang Jue	CHN	2364	6.5	0.0	2313	43.0	9	6.5	5.41	1.09	15	16.4
6		GM	Zhao Xue	CHN	2549	6.0	0.0	2358	44.5	9	6	6.89	-0.89	10	-8.9
7		WGM	Le Thanh Tu	VIE	2313	5.5	0.0	2356	41.0	9	5.5	4.56	0.94	15	14.1
8		IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2353	5.5	0.0	2340	44.0	9	5.5	5.12	0.38	10	3.8
9		WGM	Padmini Rout	IND	2345	5.5	0.0	2263	38.5	9	5.5	5.82	-0.32	15	-4.8
10		WGM	Guo Qi	CHN	2360	5.5	0.0	2221	34.0	9	5.5	6.59	-1.09	15	-16.4
11		WGM	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	VIE	2301	5.0	0.0	2387	45.0	9	5	4.16	0.84	15	12.6
12		WIM	Nakhbayeva Guliskhan	KAZ	2309	5.0	0.0	2379	39.0	9	5	4.38	0.62	15	9.3
13		IM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2321	5.0	0.0	2368	42.5	9	5	4.55	0.45	10	4.5
14		WIM	Yanjindulam Dulamsuren	MGL	2214	5.0	0.0	2362	38.5	9	5	3.82	1.18	15	17.7
15		IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	MGL	2451	5.0	0.0	2354	42.5	9	5	5.99	-0.99	10	-9.9
16		WFM	Zhai Mo	CHN	2248	5.0	0.0	2335	38.5	9	5	4.35	0.65	15	9.8
17		WGM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	VIE	2390	5.0	0.0	2326	39.5	9	5	5.54	-0.54	15	-8.1
18		IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2417	5.0	0.0	2308	37.0	9	5	6.24	-1.24	10	-12.4
19			Ni Shiqun	CHN	2157	5.0	0.0	2299	33.5	9	5	3.38	1.62	30	48.6
20		WGM	Batchimeg Tuvshintugs	MGL	2363	5.0	0.0	2270	38.5	9	5	6.08	-1.08	15	-16.2
21		WFM	Medina Warda Aulia	INA	2172	5.0	0.0	2260	31.0	9	5	4.39	0.61	15	9.1
22		WIM	Muminova Nafisa	UZB	2338	4.5	0.0	2334	38.0	9	4.5	5.08	-0.58	15	-8.7
23		WGM	Swathi Ghate	IND	2286	4.5	0.0	2326	41.0	9	4.5	4.73	-0.23	15	-3.5
24			Pratyusha Bodda	IND	2123	4.5	0.0	2277	36.5	8	3.5	2.76	0.74	15	11.1
25		WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	VIE	2356	4.0	0.0	2352	41.0	9	4	5.25	-1.25	15	-18.8
26		WIM	Nguyen Quynh Anh	VIE	2129	4.0	0.0	2331	39.0	9	4	3.12	0.88	15	13.2
27		WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y	VIE	2238	4.0	0.0	2285	38.0	9	4	4.63	-0.63	15	-9.4
28		WIM	Vo Thi Kim Phung	VIE	2155	4.0	0.0	2276	33.5	9	4	3.69	0.31	15	4.7
29		WIM	Le Kieu Thien Kim	VIE	2239	4.0	0.0	2253	36.0	9	4	4.89	-0.89	15	-13.4
30		WIM	Pham Bich Ngoc	VIE	2176	3.5	0.0	2324	37.0	9	3.5	3.33	0.17	15	2.5
31		WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	VIE	2237	3.5	0.0	2277	37.5	9	3.5	4.71	-1.21	15	-18.1
32			Pham Thi Thu Hoai	VIE	1956	3.5	0.0	2253	35.5	8	2.5	1.95	0.55	15	8.3
33		WGM	Kiran Manisha Mohanty	IND	2208	3.5	0.0	2224	37.0	8	2.5	3.98	-1.48	15	-22.2
34		WIM	Sihite Chelsie Monica	INA	2181	3.5	0.0	2195	33.5	9	3.5	5.21	-1.71	15	-25.6
35		WFM	Dewi Aa Citra	INA	2112	3.5	0.0	2182	31.0	8	2.5	3.76	-1.26	15	-18.9
36		WFM	Enkhtuul Altanulzii	MGL	2108	3.5	0.0	2177	31.5	9	3.5	4.40	-0.90	15	-13.5
37			Jelsen Yemi	INA	2007	3.5	0.0	2172	30.0	8	2.5	2.91	-0.41	15	-6.2
38			Ngo Thi Kim Tuyen	VIE	2070	3.0	1.0	2186	32.5	8	2	3.05	-1.05	15	-15.8
39		WFM	Ton Nu Hong An	VIE	1997	3.0	0.0	2089	28.0	8	2	3.50	-1.50	15	-22.5
40			Virda Rizka Aulia	INA	1769	2.5	0.0	2242	33.5	9	2.5	0.89	1.61	30	48.3
41			Otorbaeva Nuriza	KGZ	1740	2.0	0.0	2130	27.0	7	1	0.93	0.07	0	0.0

Full results of Men's Section can be seen here : http://chess-results.com/tnr70397.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&flag=30