Announcing the SG Chess Festival 2022: My involvement @ Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel
- The Good Writer
- Jun 4, 2022
- 3 min read
It’s back again, the annual SG Chess Festival 2022, an event that stretches for a whole week, from 12 to 19 June 2022, which is also kindly sponsored by and based in the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel - Singapore
There would be many highlights during these few days, ranging from Classical, Rapid, Blitz, Chess 960, Team Tournaments to Workshops & Simultaneous Exhibitions by GMs and IMs from other countries. The biggest event being the
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Professor Lim Kok Ann Invitational GM Tournament, which is one of the little tournaments that players can play for a GM norm. (you need three to become a GM) Participants of the tournament include home-favourite and newly crowned GM Tin Jingyao, who achieved one of the biggest medal hauls in the SEA Games ever as a debutant, having gotten 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals, who is in good form, and has just obtained his 3rd GM norm in the Hanoi 2022 Invitational tournament with 7 wins and 2 draws, scoring a shocking 8/9 in the tournament. A strong contender would be Siddharth Jagadeesh, who had recently been crowned IM after he met all the requirement, despite having lost to Jingyao in PUBXCHESS matches, he would be sure to put up a good fight to inch closer to his GM title as well. WGM Gong Qianyun, who was the medallist Gold in the Sea Games 2019 Women’s Standard event and achieved 1 silver & 1 bronze in the recent SEA Games, is also competing for norm but much competition is expected. View the full start list of players here!
Anyways, I may be volunteering at this event on 17 June 2022.
Despite poor performances in recent tournaments including the KCFAP Vesak Day Rapid Event (May 2022) & the Bishan Chess Club OTB Rapid 15+2 Meetup tournament, only garnering a 3/7 and 2/5 score respectively, which was not even over the halfway mark, my father and I would be expecting to play in one of the Team Event of the Chess Festival that will be held in the Canary Room of the hotel on 14 June 2022, a Tuesday. Details are already out and my team are as follows:
Board 1- Jovan Teo
Board 2- Wong Yip Fung
Board 3- Yeoh Ti Heong
Board 4- Yeoh Kai Bo
SG Chess Festival Website:
There would be casual play between several clubs in the Canary Room of Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel on 15 June 2022 from 6.30-9.30pm so be welcome to join in the fun.
Other Chess News:
Tanglin Open 2022: Elorta’s Win not surprising, CM Jayden Wong grabs 2nd, CM Owen Michael settled for 3rd
David Elorta, who has been on a winning streak since the 30th SEA Games in 2019, was the top seed to win this tournament. Many other unrated & lower rated players have also shown ultimate excellence in their play after Round 9. We saw interesting pairings with titled players facing off against each other!
KCFAP’s 12th Saturday Rapid: Arena Grandmaster Lawrence Teoh snatches 1st after draw against Melvin Chin, who clinched 2nd
The Kasparov Chess Foundation Asia Pacific’s Weekly tournaments have come back in style as AGM Teoh did relatively well in the 7-round round-robin tournament with the score 5.5/7 while Chin only scored 5.0/7, settling for 2nd.
KCFAP’s 12th Sunday Rapid: Surprise Comeback by Melvin Chin shocks FM Leong & AGM Teoh as he zooms for 1st
Melvin Chin was not ready to give up yet with his near-perfect score of 4.5/5 when he was paired with No. 1 seed, famous titled player and Owner of KCFAP, Ignatius Leong, who was trailing behind him with a 4/5. Chin won the game with the white pieces and showed excellent performance in the 7th and final round, securing the win against Chit Ye Thu, and his 1st place with a shockingly perfect score of 6.5/7. AGM Lawrence Teoh and FM Ignatius Leong clinched 2nd & 4th place respectively.
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