Chess Event Hong Kong

On 1 March, over 350 players representing close to 50 schools gathered at Malvern College for an entire day of chess fun and to compete for who could keep the Dr. R. Lister Cup for the coming year. Will the students of the Chinese International School be the first ones to successfully defend their title, or will we have a different winner for a fourth consecutive year? In each category, the four best individual results from each school are added to decide the school score and

Blitz is fast paced chess. Not all chess players have the ability to handle their nerves in constant timetrouble while even fewer chess players are brave enough to even consider the only faster form: lightning chess. On 15 February, 27 fast chess enthusiasts gathered in our Sheung Wan center to fight out who could call themselves the CNY Caissa Blitz Champion 2026 after seven double rounds (14 games against 7 opponents). Playing quickly also means making a lot of blunders. In

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.

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

Caissa ready for the new school year with a fresh new look and many new projects! As you have found your way here, you’re already familiar with our brand new website. Throughout the summer, the Caissa team has worked hard on this project to present you this fresh new look. Not only did the website get an update, we also have a new and improved registration page  where you can easily play around with the filter to get a fast and clear overview of our classes. And that is not a

The summer in Hong Kong is traditionally a duller season for the chess scene. While the tournament calendar in May and in the first half of June is absolutely packed also with our own first Harrow Scholastic Tournament  with GM Ding Liren, things tend to calm down a bit from mid June onwards. At least for (big) tournaments in Hong Kong that is. There are still a couple of smaller events and for those that want to keep improving over summer, we had the summer camps. For 8 week

The last two rounds of the Caissa Standard (60m0s) FIDE rated U1800 were played on 5 October 2025. Muhammad who in round 5 was paired...

On Saturday 4 October 130 players, youth and adults, went to Yew Chung International School (Secondary section) in Kowloon Tong to play...

On 22 June 36 players visited Caissa Sheung Wan chess centre to phase out some of their last rapid energy of the season. In this FIDE...