As you will see from the pairing, the two undefeated players played each other (Bader Al Khaldi vs. Mohamed Hesham). Their game only proves that there are tactics in the endgame. Mohamed, down a pawn and who had a losing position, exchanged rooks and sacrificed 2 pawns to make a queen. Bader shortly resigned. A truly great game by both players. Now Mohamed Hesham of Syria is the top player with 6.5 points from 7 rounds. 

But don’t forget there are two more rounds left and the tournament is not over till its over.

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TEC 1st chess championship – Round 8
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total

1 Fernando Laming PLH [6] : Mohamed Hesham SYR [6.5]
2 Mohamed Jaber EGY [6] : Bader Al-Hajiri KWT [6] 
3 Faisal Al-Hamlan KWT [5.5] : Bader Al-Khaldy KWT [5.5]
4 Hazaa Al-Sharfa KWT [5.5] : Hamdy Mabrouk EGY [5.5]
5 Hamadah Al-Wakel EGY [5] : Basir Cosin PLH [5] 
6 Ferdinand Bujay PLH [5] : Khaled Khan PAK [5] 
7 Florentino Silao PLH [5] : Nathaniel Tinasaie PLH [5] 
8 Mohamed Abdullah Ali BAH [5] : Hamdy El-Okdah EGY [4.5]
9 Alaa Abdullatif EGY [4.5] : Sajan Jacub IND [4.5]
10 Faeq Kanaan PAL [4.5] : Yousef Ahmed EGY [4.5]
11 Khaled Hashem KWT [4.5] : Mohamed Abdulmohsen EGY [4.5]
12 Akram Ali EGY [4] : Mohamed Ali PLH [4] 
13 labib badee SYR [4] : Amer Araab PLH [4] 
14 Bhanu Dhepalli IND [4] : Nasser Al-Maqseed KWT [4] 
15 Tamer Ateyah EGY [4] : Eid Mohamed Eid EGY [4] 
16 Herculano Zcarias PLH [4] : Yasser Yosef EGY [4] 
17 Husain Shalabi EGY [4] : Nizar Kanaan PAL [4] 
18 Noor Al-Deen Mohamed EGY [3.5] : Abdulsalam Al-Dekheel KWT [3] 
19 Mohamed Qabazrd KWT [3] : Agha Allahverdiyev AZ [3] 
20 Ali Alaa Al-Deen LEB [3] : Nasser Al-Subaie KWT [3] 
21 Nadiya Al-Qaban KWT [3] : Ali Al-Saqaf LEB [3] 
22 Sayed Mahmoud EGY [3] : Jamal Al-Awady KWT [3] 
23 Majdy Ghunaim EGY [3] : Veerappan Aiyappan IND [3] 
24 Abdulmohsen Al-Moshary KWT [2] : Nawaf Al-Azimy KWT [3] 
25 Hamad Al-Motawaa KWT [2] : Mustafa Hanano SYR [2.5]
26 Omar Al-Yaqout KWT [2] : Abdulrahman Fathi EGY [2] 
27 Noor Dhepalli IND [2] : Ryan Martiez PLH [2] 
28 Abdulwahab Al-Atiqi KWT [2] 1:0 BYE