Rapid Chess

Full house on 17 May: 36 rapid chess enthusiasts gathered to compete for the Caissa Spring Rapid title. Again a very young field - we're happy to see many of our students finding their way to fide rated chess! On to the results: Rounds 1 and 2 Usually, this is where people are still warming up and when they're finding out what their form of the day is. Kin Ho Chu was the only rated player who was still waking up and lost a full point to Caissa student Cyrus Ho Him Lau. In the

U7 In the youngest category we have Alexander Tu and Richard Li, here playing against each other in the final round. They're good friends and represent the same school (Hong Kong International School) and got third place just between the two of them. Individually, Richard finished in sixth place while Alexander won all of his games and clinched first place with 7/7! Congratulations Alexander! U9 He might be getting used to it, but that doesn't make it any less special: Shayne

The Harrow 1st Open Scholastic was a big success with around 420 participants and Ding Liren as a special guest. For the Harrow 2nd Open Scholastic we went back to the basics, no special guests and no side activities - except for a Mother's Day banner where the players could take pictures (sometimes not entirely to their liking, you know who you are, dear teenagers!) with their mother with roses we handed out. Except for that, the day was just a celebration of chess! The form

The summer vacation is slowly coming to an end, children all over Hong Kong are getting ready to go to school again… and to chess! It is 24 August and Caissa tournaments are back on the agenda after a dormant summer of competitive play. Clearly, this tournament didn’t come too soon as almost 70 children signed up in either the U8/U10 or in the U12/U14 categories! All eager to use their knowledge from summer camps, or to try out that new opening trick, or to see if they still