- Jul 26
- 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 opponent. Basque Chess in Action With 10 players joining - unfortunately it is still fact that relative few players in Hong Kong try out more social forms of chess - the field size was very much compensated by the field's strength. In addition to Caissa coaches IM Matthew Tan (FIDE rating 2419), Dmitry Kutsebeschenko (2161) and Eduard Garcia (1852)
- Jul 17
- 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 and old, experienced and those gaining first-time experience. In a perfectly "compefriendly" environment, Chief Arbiter IA Alberto Muniz cruised the event from round to round into a successful ending. Impression of GP4 After 4 rounds there was no one with a hundred percentage score anymore. After the scrimmage between 3.5 pointers Caissa coac
- Jul 6
- 1 min
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
- 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 rated blitz, 5m+3s - not too fast - had a pool of 25 points to be divided among the top 5 players, 10 points to the winner, 7, 5, 2 and 1 point to 2nd to 5th place respectively. Impression of the morning Blitz Both Brandon and Jameson started off with 3 out of 3 and faced each other in round 4. Brandon won that game but because in round 6 Brando
