Team Chess

Between 17 and 21 June, the chess world's finest are coming to Hong Kong to fight out which team can call themselves World Champions in the World Rapid and Blitz Team World Championships. In the morning, there's a side event which certainly is no less exciting: the World Amateur Team Amateur Rapid Chess Cup. Coach Astrid and Coach Eduard will both be captaining a team with some of our most promising youth players. Caissa Team A Caissa Team B 1 WFM Coach Astrid Barbier Coach E

Caissa Teams U11, U13 and U18 win Top 3 spots. Caissa also joined with 3 girls teams.

On 28 and 29 March the Hong Kong Interschool and Open Team Chess Championship will take place. A perfect opportunity for us to gather the Caissa Team and go compete as a club. At Caissa we strongly emphasize the club feeling. That's why we organized a team building event on 15 March - pizza included - to prepare our youngsters for the upcoming tournament. After going through the tournament rules and talking about what it means to play in a team, we had a fun quiz in teams and

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