The Week in Chess - Singapore version
By now, the chess world is already aware that the Singapore Chess Federation is hosting the World Chess Championships Final match between GMs Ding Liren and Dommaraju Gukesh.
The Singapore Chess Festival will be held alongside this to add in the excitement.
One week before the September school holidays, the nation is buzzing with chess activities. Apart from the regular Swiss events held on the weekends, we have players getting ready to represent their schools at the National School Teams event held from 2nd to 4th of September at Rulang Primary School (1300+ players, if I'm not wrong!)
The Singapore Chess Federation has been working with the Singapore Prisons Service to help rehabilitate inmates and lower rates of re-offending by putting their focus onto learning and excelling in chess. The players have been training hard and eventually a team of inmates will compete in an international online competition in October.
Channelnewsasia covered this interesting and worthy committment here.
Aliwal Chess Club has been taking chess to the streets (Aliwal Street - but of course) since 2021, now rivalling Asia Square Chess meetup as an outdoor social chess place to enjoy chess. They have even graduated to running chess tournaments. In their first event, former Junior Champion, Jordan Max Chow took the title.
Their latest initiative was to join in the Singapore Night Festival (up till 7th September) where kids and adults got to play chess under the night lights outside the Peranakan Museum.
Don't you find the play of light on the pieces and boards very eye catching?
Here's how Pe Yeow beat Cyrus with a sacrificial attack in the London system.
2 more rounds to go....we're all set for a nailbiting finish. Will it be the old birds or young punks to carry off the title?
A couple of useful Singapore Chess federation links -
To look for places to play chess in Singapore, check this out.
To check out competitive events for the rest of the year, you can find them here.
