Fun with chess during the Christmas Holiday break.

Lightning Chess at Caissa Hong Kong

Players from among Caissa's strongest students across different age categories, together with Caissa coaches as well as strong external guest players, assembled on 7 December for a 6 rounds 15m+3s FIDE rated Rapid.

One week before the C/D group the players from the A and B groups played the final leg of the EOM Cycle. Why is that? Well, on the originally scheduled date, the HK Juniors were also taking place. Many of our stronger students wanted to play both tournaments, hence the reviewed date. Let’s delve into the results of the final leg! Newcomer Jotham Fu wasn’t playing around and made his presence known with a perfect 5/5. After winning the first round against Sha Tin classmate Can

MY FIRST MOVES: CAISSA’S FIRST NOVICE TOURNAMENT IS A BIG SUCCESS Chess is fun. Chess competitions might even be more fun. Chess is also extremely complex. For young beginners it can take a long time before they master the rules, let alone have the board vision to appreciate a full game of chess. Should that mean they cannot yet enjoy the thrills of competitive play? Absolutely not! Entertainment between the games The MFM tournament came to life for exactly these students. Th

Over the years, chess has known many grueling and long lasting tournaments. At this very moment, the absolute world elite players are fighting in the World Cup. A month-long tournament in Goa, India with the top three finishers earning a ticket for the prestigious candidates tournament. Going back in history, before engines started dominating the chess world, a single game could even take longer than one session! If play took too long, they broke off the game and simply conti

The second leg of an EOM cycle is traditionally held in Discovery Bay, this time was no different. Somewhat less players join this leg because of the distance, but the fun and excitement is as guaranteed as always. C/D Coach Sunny and his army of assistant arbiters! Let’s first go through the C/D group. With only 14 players, everything was going to be super close at some point. For the C-group and overall winner, the critical round came as early as round 3. Yau Ning Chan won

One week after the season opener Rapid event, the Blitz enthusiasts gathered in Caissa. Just over 30 players played seven double rounds to decide the winner of the day. Alberto Muniz joined the event as a player for the first time in a very long time. After years of arbitering Caissa tournaments, he was able to enjoy them as a player. Alberto started the tournament as the rating favourite, but the opposition would be tough. Caissa talents Branding Fan and Kyle Chen have been