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Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan Visits Caissa for Simul

March 1st, 2014
Group Photo Simul Players and Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan visiting Caissa Chess Club Hong Kong

Group Photo Simul Players and Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan visiting Caissa Chess Club Hong Kong

 

Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan turned just 20 years old last week while in Hong Kong. What Yifan achieved in chess in just 20 years is exceptional and we were truly honored with her presence. We all, youngsters and adults alike, by seeing this friendly, modest and likeable chess prodigy in action, surely were given a boost of motivation to try to excel ourselves too in whatever we do.

In her game against 21 players Yifan won 20 games and a noteworthy results was achieved by Stuart Holt, the only player who managed to draw. Well done Stuart!

 

 

GM Hou Yifan Simul and Open Blitz Finals Saturday March 1: Full House!

February 25th, 2014

Saturday 1 March will be the busiest day in our club’s young history. In the morning from 9am to 10.30am we are honored with the visit of Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan who will play simultane chess against 20 players. Although the odds of beating Yifan are not that large it will definitely be a memorable event for all players – and in addition all will get a souvenir, of course.

Then at 11am, with just 30 minutes in between, we will move from the simul to our Winter 2014 Blitz Open. And at full club capacity of 32 players the list of participants is as follows (for the ones who wish to prepare …):

  • Rachel Lu
  • Jonathan Lee
  • Ronald Choy
  • Oliver Yau
  • Joseph Wong
  • Hugo Lee
  • Arjun Nathan
  • Hannay Ball
  • James Nichols
  • Miguel Angel Garceran Wang
  • Mei Jing Garceran Wang
  • Daniel Lam
  • James Wing Ki Kwong
  • Bosco Yau Kwun Hou
  • Billy Lo
  • Issac Fung
  • Aravind Mahadevan
  • Stuart Holt
  • Eugene Livensky
  • Umberto Dalpian
  • Yee Chit Wong
  • Andrew Ng
  • Raphael Chang
  • Richard Takasumi
  • Koji Takasumi
  • Cyril Anicete
  • Liu Shuaikai
  • Wang Yuanfeng
  • Bao Jinwen
  • Yin Hao
  • Chen Delang
  • Chen Yicong

Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan Visits Caissa – Play a Game against the World Champion!

February 7th, 2014
Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan

Women World Champion GM Hou Yifan

Thanks to the efforts of Mr. K.K. Chan it is a pleasure to announce that Women World Champion Grandmaster Hou Yifan will be visiting Hong Kong. Of course we at Caissa gladly cooperate with this initiative as it doesn’t happen often we get world class players in town. In fact, it might have happened only one time before in the last decades when Junior World Champion GM Alexander Ipatov visited us last year.

GM Hou Yifan broke some records by being the youngest China National Women Champion, youngest Women World Champion, youngest female Grandmaster and such.

Now is your chance to play a game against her, take a photo and get an autograph! GM Hou Yifan is holding simultane chess sessions at our venues in Discovery Bay and Sheung Wan. She will be playing against 20 players and you can be one of them if you hurry up: in Sheung Wan we have only 7 places left as of today.

Register today!