In the weekend of 8, 9 and 10 of March an official Guangzhou Chess delegation visited Hong Kong to play against Hong Kong’s top 15 youth in the age categories U8 to U14.

Many players of the Hong Kong team who had also secured the Pearl Delta Cup 2013 for Hong Kong against Macao, and also played in the Hong Kong – East Lake Guangzhou Chess Club tournament were meeting their Guangzhou age peers on Friday in a double round robin (playing once with black and once with white against the same opponent).

In round 1 Hong Kong beat Guangzhou with 9-7. Hong Kong also won  round 2 to end the team match in a win for Hong Kong of 17.5-12.5. From Caissa Miguel Angel won both his games but Mei Jing lost twice and it shows it is not easy to play U8 when you are 6.

On Saturday morning and Sunday morning the tournament changed into a mixed individual event where every player, irrespective of which chess federation or age group, would play 4 rounds in one Swiss paired group.

Congratulations to U14 Peisen Lin from Guangzhou who emerged as winner of the tournament after winning from Hong Kong’s Champion U12 Michael Yang in an exciting 5 minutes blitz when Michael’s time was up 7 seconds before Peisen’s.

 

 

It is good to see that the top 10 is populated with 6 Hong Kong players, including U10 players like James Kwong and Richard Takasumi.

From Caissa perspective, U8 Miguel Angel’s 2 points, including losses against the champion U14 Peisen and 4th ranked U12 Adrian Chui, were decent enough in this very strong field.