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Hong Kong Open Chess Round 3

September 18th, 2012

Last Monday in round 3 Seth Levine and Chun Keung Yeung agreed to a draw. Billy Lo and David Garceran Nieuwenburg had played their game on Saturday already, which also resulted in a draw, and with Sydney Sai Ling Wai winning his game against Brian Shin the top five players now all share 2.5 points.

Closely following with 2 points are five players, of which Alberto Pardino Muniz and Luen-Wah Luk stand out a bit. Alberto only played two games and Luen-Wah remains unbeaten with a win and 2 draws, the last draw against Jake Chi Loon Chan who with this excellent result scored 1.5 points and is, for now, just out of the top 10.

In the second half of the league we see that Peter Whalley, Hysan Lai Hei Wong and Jefferson Lee scored their first win and definitely more is to come, also from Scott Ian who returned from the Chess Olympiads in Turkey (representing Hong Kong) seemingly well warmed up to score a full point in his first game in round 3.

Rank after round 3

Round 4 will be played on October 8 because players will be preparing for the Hong Kong International Open played on five consecutive days from 28 September to 3 October 2012.

 

Round 1 Youth Competition 2012-13

September 7th, 2012

After having warmed up since June, finally the first Thursday of September had arrived … to start the competition.

We had a special evening because the Discovery College squad to participate in the Quarry Bay ESF organized chess tournament had joined for their chess practice.

Full House Round 1 Caissa Chess Club Hong Kong Youth Tournament

Max smiling as Miguel and Krijn (foreground) and the two Aryans (background) meet on the board

Round 1 was fireworks all over the place. Etienne had just a lonely king but Connor did not know how to move his pieces into a check mate plan and because of repeat of moves this game resulted in a draw. Something similar happened with Bryant and Chor Wei, when Bryant won on time but with only a king left, without check mate potential, the game ended in a draw. After the game Chor Wei was explained how to give check mate with two rooks (extra) and next time a situation like this will definitely result in a win.

Aleesha, who preferred to stand and was a bit far from the clock … lost on time against Lucas and because Meijing lost against Jonathan it was Manon who saved the girls’ honor by winning from Julien who tried out chess for the first time. Well done Manon, but also very good effort from Julien – keep it up!

Despite a good fight Jay could not hold Wilson and Krijn could not stop Miguel Angel from winning. Max lost a bravely played game against Aryan Shetty and Aryan Jain beat Ginu in a tough game.

Finally Ruaidhri beat Vaibhav and Mees scored a point against Franz.

Ranking after Round 1

 

Hong Kong Youth in Prizes in 1st ASEAN Chess

August 12th, 2012

After the full 9 rounds in an excellent organized tournament in Singapore our Hong Kong representatives did not get back empty handed.

In the final ranking in category Under 14 Wong Yee Chit got 3rd prize with 6.5 points. An excellent result, also for Jeffrey Lam Ting Hei who did not lose in the last 4 rounds to secure the prize for 8th place.

In the final ranking in category Under 11 Benjamin Oh Yau Teng scored 1 point in the last 3 rounds to claim 43rd place with 4 points, but no prize.

In the final ranking in category Under 8, finally, James Kwong Wing Ki scored 3 full points in the last 3 rounds. Round 9 unfortunately saw our 2 Hong Kong boys James paired against Miguel Angel Garceran Wang, both with 5 points.

Miguel Angel Garceran Wang and James Kwong Wing Ki Prepare for Round 9 in 1st ASEAN Chess

James’ win secured him the prize for 7th place with six points and Miguel Angel ended 17th, out of the prize zone. Harold Kwong Wing Shun scored some points in the last few rounds to end with 3 points on 39th place.

Well done Hong Kong!

 

Hong Kong Open Finals 2012 End Results

May 29th, 2012

HK Tsang - Champion Hong Kong Finals 2012

The very last game to finish between CY Chong and David Or (1-0) officially concluded the Finals. From the beginning until the end it remained crowded at the top. Four people ended with a total of 8 points, closely followed by a mid-range group of again 4 people scoring between 5.5 to 7 points. The bottom four players remained at a modest but significant distance from the rest of the crowd: next year gentlemen!

Congratulations to HK Tsang with his championship title and a special proficiat to Bryan Lee and Andrew Koenigsberg who managed to score the highest increase in their rating points due to very strong tournament rating performance!

Hong Kong Chess Federation, again, managed to organize an excellent tournament. Looking forward to coming events.

The end result:

Asian Nations Cup 2012 Ends with Hong Kong Ranking 13th

May 26th, 2012

The Hong Kong chess team ended after 9 rounds of chess battle on the 13th place. Unfortunately Hysan lost all his 9 games, Cyrus scored 0.5 out of 9, Sunny 1 out of 9, Adrian 2 out of 5 and David 2 out of 4.

Here are all the results of the Hong Kong team in the 2012 Asian Nations Cup.

In “experience points” this team obviously gained a lot more meddling among players who play chess for a living and this year’s baseline of 13th is the target to beat next year.

Welcome back home Hong Kong team!

 

Hong Kong Wins First Match in Asian Nations Cup 2012 against Taipei

May 20th, 2012

Today’s win against Taipei city of China (as Taiwan is called for this occasion) was anticipated – as was the taste of beers we promised ourselves upon a win.

Hysan on board 4 did not take the initiative in time. David on board 3, played with black again a Philidor but this time white opted for queens exchange on d8. David won an early pawn and played it all up after exchanging the rest of the pieces towards promotion and win.

Sunny, quickly a piece up after a stormy Scandinavian, decided to go for the best composition prize, sacrificing his bishop back close to black’s king and rendered black further helpless.

A draw for Cyrus on board 1 would have been enough for the team win and that is how the game ended, despite a pawn up and probably having had the opportunity to win on several occasions.

Hong Kong team getting ready for Taipei, from front to back: Cyrus, Sunny, David and Hysan.

Hong Kong in Troubles against S-Korea

May 19th, 2012

The third round against S-Korea Hysan on board 4 came well out of the opening but did not put his pieces on the active squares that were available and was consequently pushed off the board.

On Board 3, David tried out again 1.b4 against FM Chogdov who avoided all main lines with a quick 4. … d6 in the exchange variation. White achieving an ideal set-up was fooled into closing the diagonal of his Bb2 and he did not pay enough attention to the attacking potential of cramped-looking black pieces positioned all the way back in the black queen wing.

On board 1, Cyrus who faced FM Camacho Collados, played a very attacking variation with his white queen controlling the entire board on d6 from move 10 on. Camacho did not free himself properly even when the queens were traded off and the first casualty on S-Korean side seemed a fact, until a wrong move order by white changed the natural course of events.

The last to finish was Sunny on board 2, the most unfortunate loss. Sunny punished an inaccuracy of his opponent CM Lee and was a piece up until close to time-up Sunny gave back a piece and had an endgame with black rook against his opponent’s bishop and knight and both four pawns. With little time on the clock it is very difficult to stay precise.

Asian Nations Cup 2012 Round 3 Hong Kong - Iran

The 4-0 loss looks worse than the games actually played and this Hong Kong team is about to get to the next plateau and in matches like those of today, score better.

Here is the official FIDE reporting of this round.

Tomorrow against Taipei.