On Saturday 5 July Mr. Mao, the coach of a group of 24 youth players from Fu Hao Chess Club in Nan Chang, Jianxi province, maneuvered his players to our Discovery Bay chess club for a friendly match over 6 rounds against 24 of our Caissa team players.
The Teams of Fu Hao and Caissa on the Stairs in North Plaza Discovery Bay
Before the players worked through the full 6 rounds they first exchanged their favorite book with their opponent before round 1 – a gesture to underline the friendly and Youth Exchange character of the match.
Then … some 50 chess hungry children were set loose and with the uncompromising energy of young minds the pieces dazzled over the boards towards ecstatic wins, dramatic losses, beautiful miniatures, unexpected stalemates and other memorable turns of events.
When the dust settled after 6 rounds, Fu Hao Team D had scored 21 points versus 14 points by Caissa and as such the Team Prize went to Fu Hao. Big thanks to Sydney Lai, from Aktive Kids, who brought in a few of the youngest and freshest players into our team to savor the taste of an International Match so early in their career. Sydney’s help in controlling this super creative group was instrumental to the steady proceedings in this group.
Teams D in Action
Teams D Ready for Action
The best scoring and undefeated Caissa player, Charles, on his first tournament scored 4.5 points. But the two top scorer players were from Fu Hao, Ye Ya Rong and Chen Yan Yang, with 5 points. Yan Yang could finally collect the Top Scorer Prize in this group on tie-break, having more wins than Ya Rong. Congratulations!
Chen Yan Yang Top Scorer Group D
Fu Hao Winning Team Group D
Group D Caissa Team
In Group C Caissa’s Ray was top scorer until he lost in the last round and saw his 4 points to be insufficient to hold Ma Yan Wu from becoming top scorer with 5 points and together with his team mates win the Team Prize with 18 points versus 13 points of Hong Kong. Congratulations to Fu Hao prize winners and big bravo to our Caissa players who stayed focused the entire match.
Teams C in Action
Fu Hao’s Ma Yan Wu Top Scorer Team C
Fu Hao Winning Team C
Team C Caissa
Team B consisted of some of Hong Kong’s best players in their age group. In total 4 players ended with 5 points as top scorer: Thomas, Harold, Samira and Deng Chun Wen from Fu Hao. Samira won the Top Scorer prize on tie-break and together with her team mates also won the Team Prize with 22.5 points versus 13.5 points scored by Fu Hao Team. Well done all!
Team B in Action
Samira Top Scorer Team B
Caissa Winning Team B
Fu Hao Team B
Caissa’s Team A, finally, was populated with some of Hong Kong’s finest players among whom James put on the most impressive show of the day by winning all his 6 games, closely followed by Richard scoring 5.5 points. With the solid scores of the other team mates the Caissa team won the Team Prize with an overwhelming 24 points versus 12 points for Fu Hao. Good job boys!
Lunch “Break” at Team A Table
Team A in Starting Position
James Top Scorer team A with 6 out of 6! Best result of the day.
Caissa Winning Team A
A warm thanks to Mr. Mao for bringing in his players and enabling all 50 children to have a great time – and thanks for the introduction behind the scenes Allen and Grace!
All individual results are here:
Team A
Team B
Team C
TEAM D
On Sunday morning the Fu Hao team visisted the Caissa Sheung Wan club venue for a short training in whihc we explored teh Dutch opening and the Scheveningen variation of the Sicilian opening.
An impression of the event through photos can be found on our Album Fu Hao Chess Club from Nan Chang Visits Sheung Wan for Training.
