Coach Emile

At Caissa, we believe chess is a game that knows no boundaries. Since 2025, we have been dedicated to building a supportive environment for our growing community of female players. Through our tournaments, training sessions, annual festival, and weekly classes, we have seen your enthusiasm. Due to this popularity, we are happy to announce that starting this October, Wednesdays will officially be 'Caissa Girls Club Day' at our Sheung Wan Center—a dedicated space for our female players. Whether...

We were supposed to have a FIDE Blitz and FIDE Rapid tournament one after the other for our July summer tournaments. But organizing events in Hong Kong during this time of year is always a risk - because of a typhoon alert we had to postpone the Summer Rapid from 19 July all the way to 16 August. Enough time for certain people to realize they were missing out! During that time, new signups started coming in until we had to close registration with a full house. The playing field was an...

Over twenty players made up an interesting field for our first Summer tournament. All ratings ranges from unrated up until 1700 were represented with Ruhao Liu (1942) clearly ahead of the pack. We used the usual concept: seven double rounds for a total of fourteen games. On the night of 19 to 20 July, Spain and Argentina are playing the finals of the FIFA World Cup. Lots of drama and conspiracy theories have been surrounding the tournament and anyone who follows football a bit, knows that the...