Farrukh Amonatov have let us know that taking into account the worries of his family about the situation in Hong Kong he decided to cancel his visit.
Although the situation is getting better and we do not foresee any problems we understand and respect Amonatov’s decision. All players who have registered for any of his events 6-8 November will be refunded before the end of this week.
We look forward to working with Amonatov and other top GMs in the future.
At our Sheung Wan location seven students invested 4 hours of their vacation, 2 hours on Monday and 2 hours on Tuesday, to participate in our holiday-break chess clinic.
We looked at various ideas behind openings (open, closed, semi-open/closed, flank) focusing on the French Advance variation; an instructive semi-open opening to become familiar with occupation of center space and attacking the center from the flank.
Talking about the Pin
After a brief exploration of king pawn endgames and associated critical squares we further discussed some of the greatest chess players like Philidor and the World Champions Steinitz, Lasker and Carlson and what they brought to chess. In between each topic we played 5 minutes blitz chess.
After some exercises around the Pin we played a 10 minutes blitz team match of blind chess: Gauri, Mei Jing, Ray and Adrien in one corner of the room were only allowed to look at and move their own black pieces while Horatio, Ian and Miguel Angel in another corner of the room could only see and move their white pieces. They needed to cooperate as a team and two cheats were allowed … 20 moves later, after time was up for the black team, in a very equal position, the match was completed with all pieces on the board.
The graduates … always in for a joke …
It was fun
The competition in season 2012-13 for Intermediate will end on Thursday July 4 and the last time Beginner and Advanced groups will get together is on Saturday July 6.
The Club will reopen on Thursday 15 August for the Intermediate Group.
We have tried to pack July with as much action as possible in these very quiet times in Discovery Bay.
Chess Clinics
In the second week of July two high quality 8 hours chess clinics by FIDE Arbiter and Candidate Master Collin Madhavan will be organized, each spread out over 2 mornings:
Coach Collin’s chess clinics are among the best attended and in Malaysia hundreds of children take part in his chess clinics yearly.
Collin Madhavan’s runs high quality large scale and small group chess clinics. Here the May 2013 Chess Camp held in Malaysia (photo from www.kids4chess.com)
Caissa is again honored to have coach Collin coming over to teach our Hong Kong children chess in his unique way that instills long term interest in the game.
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Tournament
On Saturday July 13 we will be holding our Anniversary Rapid Tournament at Caissa in Discovery Bay to conclude an exciting and successful season 2012-13. A ‘must attend’ for any chess player in town!
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