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May EOM 2021: Some 60 Players in Last Leg of Spring EOM Series
On May 30 there were 31 players in Groups C & D together. Today we were playing for medals for the best players of the day, and also for...
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Tang Tsz Sang Wins Caissa Spring Open 2021 Standard
Over 6 rounds, spread out over Sundays in April and May, 37 players assembled to play the first-since-ages-in-Hong-Kong Over The Board...
Dec 30, 20212 min read
April 2021 EOM: Breaking records!
Years ago our End of the Month Tournament was a small event for our students with some occasional external student. We have seen the...
Dec 30, 20212 min read
IM Marcos Llaneza Vega Wins Caissa OTB Spring Rapid 2021 in Historic Zetland Hall
After many months, yes, well over a year, if not close to two years, we have had no FIDE rated Over the Board event in Hong Kong. A...
Dec 30, 20212 min read
March 2021 EOM: New cycle, new and old faces
On March 21st we launched a new cycle or our End of the Month Tournaments (EOM). This month we played one week earlier than usual due to...
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Winter Blitz, Matthew Tan... again!
Our first open Over the Board event of the year was played on Sunday March 14th at our Sheung Wan Centre. What it was supposed to be a...
Dec 30, 20212 min read
Autumn 2021 EOM End of the Term Results
The last EOM of the Autumn 2021 cycle could finally be played on February 28th. To reduce the crowd and to be able to cater the...
Dec 30, 20212 min read
4 Caissa students clinch National Titles!
The Hong Kong National Junior Championships 2021 were played in two weekends in February. The groups under 10 years and under 12 years...
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Niilo Nissinen Grabs First Prize ... Twice
After the various online events we organized in the last couple of months on 1 November we finally had a normal over-the-board chess...
Dec 30, 20213 min read
Interview with the Summer Camp Coaches under COVID-19 Circumstances
When not so long ago Hong Kong managed to have zero or close to zero locally transmitted cases for several weeks in a row we saw our...
