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Zetland Hall Greater China Rapid Open 2023
Close to a hundred players and some 40 accompanying persons went out of their way to meet in Zetland Hall on Sunday May 28 for our 5th...
davidgn0
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Charity Chess Cup - Great Event, Good Caissa Results
It was great to see the emergence of an organiser, Chess for Change, daring to create a team event. In the scholastic space this does...
davidgn0
Feb 12, 20231 min read
Hong Kong Juniors Chess Championship 2023 - Excellent Results Caissa Trained Youth
Due to Covid, the 2021 and 2022 Hong Kong National Youth Championships were played online. With restrictions finally lifted, we were back...
Matthew Tan
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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...
davidgn0
Jul 17, 20222 min read
Ben Han Wins Caissa 10-Years Anniversary GP Event 1: Rapid
A sunny and hot Sunday played out in the background of the Caissa Discovery Bay Chess Centre. The Round Robin among 8 players was the...
davidgn0
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Caissa New Year Rapid 2022 - High Quality Games All Over The Boards
With only a handful unrated players out of 23 the event was a good place to gain (or lose) rating points and to have some high quality...
davidgn0
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Daniel Secures Last-Round-Decided 1st Place - Niilo Stays on Top of Grand Prix with Two Events to Go
Evening chess is rare in Hong Kong nowadays. SATURDAY evening chess, especially FIDE rated, was maybe a first time in Hong Kong last...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Nilo Came, Saw and Conquered Top Spot in Summer Moves Grand Prix
Discovery Bay Sunday 22 August: sunny blue skies outside but thunder and lightning on the boards in our 3rd and 4th Grand Prix...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
Tang Tsz Sang Leads Caissa Summer Moves Grand Prix after Two Events
With 6 FIDE rated events as part of the densely packed Caissa Summer Moves 7-leg Grand Prix, spread out over only 5 weeks in August and...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
David Garceran Nieuwenburg Wins Caissa Spring Rapid 2021
Played over two Sundays, 13 and 20 June, 36 players arrived at Caissa Sheung Wan Centre to play for the Caissa Spring Rapid 2021 title....
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20211 min read
April 2021 EOM: Breaking records!
Years ago our End of the Month Tournament was a small event for our students with some occasional external student. We have seen the...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
Winter Blitz, Matthew Tan... again!
Our first open Over the Board event of the year was played on Sunday March 14th at our Sheung Wan Centre. What it was supposed to be a...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
Niilo Nissinen Grabs First Prize ... Twice
After the various online events we organized in the last couple of months on 1 November we finally had a normal over-the-board chess...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Caissa Sponsored (CGP) Henry Ho Gets FM Title in 43rd Olympiad
As you shall already known, the Olympiad have came to an end. It was a wonderful experience to be able to play in the world stage and...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20211 min read
FM Daniel Lam Wins 1st Hang Hau, Sai Kung & Clear Water Bay Rapid Open
View ALBUM on Flickr. Group Photo Participants As the inauguration event of the (re)opening of our Caissa chess activities in the Hang...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Autumn EOM ends with a bang in Discovery Bay
The EOM of November was played in Discovery Bay on a sunny Saturday 3 December. With this the autumn cycle ended, besides the winners of...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
July EOM (End of Month) - Caissa Students Back to Business!
With the massive outflow of our students abroad in the summer holiday, the June EOM was postponed to July, herewith the July EOM becoming...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
Tushar Anand and Aaditya Kadam Impress with 100 Percent Score at Caissa Open Spring Blitz 2016
With over 30 participants the Spring Blitz was divided into 2 playing groups: Open and U12 in one group, playing for prizes of their own...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
February EOM - Game Quality Going Up
Very few illegal moves, no accidental stalemates in which one side has double amount of pieces, no scholars mate despite some attempts...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
End of Month Jan 2016 - Strong Performance of All Caissa Students
It is the time of the year that some official tournaments are coming nearby, like the inter-school events end of February. Great to see...
davidgn0
Dec 30, 20212 min read
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