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Caissa was established in March 2012, teaching just a handful of children in Discovery Bay. Now Caissa is a leading chess organizer in Hong Kong offering classes, tournaments and events to a base of several hundreds of chess players and enthusiasts.

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NO CLASSES ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

20 Sep - 1 Nov: Caissa Friday Nights Standard FIDE rated Open (6 rounds Sep 20, 27, Oct 4, 18, 25, Nov 1. Start 7.30pm, 90 minutes per person no increment). Registration Open.
Launching a new series of Age Group event in the Autumn Edition of
- MAGiC: Monthly Age Group in Caissa:
  - Sep 8: Leg 1 for U7 and U9 in Sheung Wan - COMPLETED
  - Sep 15: Leg 1 for U11 and U13 in Sheung Wan
  - Oct 6: Leg 2 for U7 and U9 in Sheung Wan
  - Oct 13: Leg 3 for U11 and U13 in Sheung Wan
  - Nov 3: Leg 3 for U7 and U9 in Discovery Bay
  - Nov 10: Leg 3 U11 and U13 in Discovery Bay
  - Dec 1: Leg 4 for U7 and U9 in Sheung Wan
  - Dec 8: Leg 4 for U11 and U13 in Sheung Wan
    - Information and Registration HERE
End of the Month, Autumn Cycle. Only for Caissa Students, levelled groups. September and November in Sheung Wan. October in Discovery Bay. Registration Open.

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MAGiC - Monthly Age Group in Caissa U7 and U9 Results

MAGiC (Monthly Age Group in Caissa) U7 and U9 first leg

Sep 4
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Start of Season Blitz: Brandon Again!

Caissa Start of Season FIDE Rapid Blitz: Winner Brandon Fang

Aug 27
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Start of Season Rapid Dominated by Brandon "The Unstoppable" ...

Start of Season Rapid Chess at Caissa won by Brandon with perfect score of 5 wins.

Aug 23
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Bye-bye Summer Age Group Chess Mid August - Will Return in Remainder of 2024 as MAGiC (Monthly Age Group in Caissa!)

Caissa Age Group Chess Rapid Bye-bye Summer2024 event

Aug 17
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June July August - Camps Camps Camps

Caissa Summer 2024 Chess Camps

Jul 29
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Team Caissa in Phuket: Good Results and Fun!

The Blue Chevalier Open 2024 in Phuket required all participants to have a rating of 1400 or higher: an excellent event thus to play...

Jul 8
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10th Osaka Kashiwara Wine Cup FIDE Rapid

On Saturday 6 July a delegation of 7 players from Hong Kong and Shenzhen played in an intimate authentic Japanese setting a 5 round rapid...

Jul 2
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Caissa End of Season Blitz Winner: FM Daniel Lam

Today, 30 June we played 7 rounds double games (once with white and once with black against the same opponent) of 5 minutes + 3 seconds...

Jun 25
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Spring 2024 EOM (End of Month) Final Leg: Kaydyn Champion Group A, Anson Group B, Shreenidhi Group C and Dominic Group D

It was a hot hot hot pre-summer day. In addition to the in-Hong-Kong-everywhere-ubiquitous-aircon we turned on good-old wind fans to keep...

Jun 18
1 min

Mikail Chan Convincingly Wins Caissa's End of Season Rapid

On Sunday 16 June, Father's Day, 30 players headed to the Caissa HK Chess Club Centre in Sheung Wan to play our this season's last FIDE...

Jun 10
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St. Joseph’s Anglo-Chinese Primary School wins the Malvern College Scholastic Open 2nd Dr. R. Lister Cup

Yesterday, Sunday 9 June 2024, some 230 students, from 57 different schools arrived under conditions of Amber Rainstorm at Malvern...

May 21
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Wen Yi Peng Wins Greater Bay Area Chess Rapid 2024 at Auberge Hotel Discovery Bay

Close to 100 players arrived Sunday 19 May at the Auberge Hotel to play chess in Discovery Bay's 5-star resort hotel. Close to half of...

May 5
1 min

Harrow International School Inaugural School Chess Championship 2024

On Sunday afternoon 5 May 2024 some 70 Harrow students came to school to play in the first internal competition for 6 Prizes, including...

Mar 24
2 min

Winter Term Ends with March EOM Prize Giving

Our End of Month (EOM) winter cycle last event on 24 March was also the last winter event we organized in 2024. As always, the EOM was...

Dec 16, 2023
1 min

Goodbye to Autumn Term 2023

Yes, we are still, technically, in Autumn, until 21 December. Trivialities aside, ignoring also that Hong Kong is still summerly, we look...

Nov 1, 2023
2 min

End of Month October Leg - Halloween

End of Month Chess in Discovery Bay - Halloween

Oct 1, 2023
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End of Month - September Leg of Autumn Cycle Starts with a Bang

On 24 September, Group C/D 25 players blazed the trail for this season's EOM cycles. As for the EOM, we will have 3 cycles, Autumn,...

Sep 20, 2023
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Wenzhi Dai Wins Start of Season Rapid

On 17 September we started the season off with our SOS 2023 event, FIDE rated rapid. With 38 players warming-up for the rest of the...

Jun 1, 2023
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Zetland Hall Greater China Rapid Open 2023

Close to a hundred players and some 40 accompanying persons went out of their way to meet in Zetland Hall on Sunday May 28 for our 5th...

Feb 12, 2023
1 min

Charity Chess Cup - Great Event, Good Caissa Results

It was great to see the emergence of an organiser, Chess for Change, daring to create a team event. In the scholastic space this does...

Jan 10, 2023
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Hong Kong Juniors Chess Championship 2023 - Excellent Results Caissa Trained Youth

Due to Covid, the 2021 and 2022 Hong Kong National Youth Championships were played online. With restrictions finally lifted, we were back...

Aug 3, 2022
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FM Daniel Lam Wins GP6 in a Tight Last Round Decide-All Event

The FIDE rated Blitz on July 31 attracted most players who already had scored several Grand Prix points. Remember, out of 10 the best 4...

Jul 26, 2022
1 min

IM Matthew Tan Wins GP5 Basque Chess - Eduard Garcia Leads GP Leaderboard

Sunday 24 July we held our Basque Chess event: a Rapid event playing both with white and black at the same time against the same...

Jul 17, 2022
2 min

Eduard Garcia Wins Grand Prix 4 Rapid

On 10 July we played our 4th Grand Prix event, a FIDE rated open rapid (15m+3s), at our Sheung Wan centre, attracting 36 players, young...

Jul 6, 2022
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Greetings from Coach David Rivas at Candidates in Madrid!

Coach David Rivas, now living in Madrid, puts Caissa on the Candidates 2022 map!

Jul 4, 2022
2 min

Brandon Chan Wins GP2 Blitz and Team Marvin/David Win GP3 Rapid Pair.

On the morning of Sunday 3 July the 2nd Grand Prix event in the 10 Years Anniversary cycle took place in Sheung Wan. The event, FIDE...

Jun 27, 2022
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Ben Han Wins Caissa 10-Years Anniversary GP Event 1: Rapid

A sunny and hot Sunday played out in the background of the Caissa Discovery Bay Chess Centre. The Round Robin among 8 players was the...

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