On Saturday 3 January we started our first training and meeting of the year. With several members still out of town both Saturday and the following Sunday were a little slow.
In addition to the restart of the Caissa chess engine (you can still register for our Winter Open and Youth YGP), on Monday 5 January the Hong Kong preliminaries at Queen Elizabeth Stadium started as well – with a relatively large crowd of over 50 players. It was the first concrete event in the hands of the new committee and it was well done. In a relaxed but properly controlled atmosphere KK Chan, the new VP and Director of Tournaments run the show very professionally.
Nervousness ahead of Round 1 HK Prelims
A leap forward was also that all games now can be downloaded as PGN and you can replay all games – and prepare for your next opponent.
That can be useful also for Friday and Sunday when we will start our own Caissa events, the Winter Open and the Winter Youth Grand Prix 2 respectively, with players who also play in the Prelims.
Stay tuned.
By the way, the only two Caissa members playing in this edition of the Prelims, James Wing Ki Kwong and David Garceran Nieuwenburg, won their first game!
Stay even more tuned …
