THOUGHTS OF A CHESS ADDICT

Go see it...its the one Fischer often uses for his analysis. https://www.noj.si/modules/catalog/products/d_nat_v.jpg

I refer you to ICCFIM Junior Tay's detailed account here .

   This is what everybody came for..the 10 main and 5 merit prizes, with cash prizes limited to the top 5 and books/New in Chess magazines (the latest copy) sponsored by the Chess People. Special thaks to FM Lim Hoon Cheng for his contribution. Here we see last year's winner of the Silver Section, Mr Ambat Sasi Nair battling it out against Aldrin Wong, a regular tournament participant who enjoys playing chess especially with longer time controls. Many parents I spoke to remarked that they much prefer the longer time control as it does not hurry the children to finish their games and allows them time to record the full game. Sad to say, only Thomson and Queenstown CCs offer this format of tournaments which used to be the norm before 25 min time control was introduced. My VS boys were asked to play the tournament as part of their duties as school team players. They fared reasonably well overall, but definitely need some work in the ethics department. One left the tournament at R...

There were skirmishes even at Day 1 of the competition at both sections. IM Terry has not rusted 1 bit as he polished off his opponents with deep strategic plans. Belying that impassive innocent pose, his machinations brought down Nelson Mariano in devious Rook endgame to clinch the point on Round 3. Tan Weiliang survived a Rook and 3 passed pawns vs Jared Neubronner's Rook,Knight and passed RP forcing the Knight to give itself up for the passed pawns to draw. GM Sadorra scored with the Queen's Gambit Declined emerging 3 pawns up against his GM counterpart Eldar. IM Terry at Round 2 playing against Limono Handjojo Cyrus Low dropped his participation at the Patrick Tay tournament and was rewarded with a hard fought draw against GM Gasanov. I was impressed with his calm and collection execution, down to his confident draw offer which the GM accepted without attempting any tricks to swing the game. The Gold Section at work The lower boards at the Silver Section  You can follow the...

Lo and behold! We now have 2 Grandmasters participating in our tournament! GM Sadorra has just arrived in Singapore and will be playing. The other is GM Eldar Gasanov. We have not had the honour of having 2 GMs play since the days of GM Joey Antonio and GM Tu during our 1st Thomson Cup Tournament. Welcome!! All the more incentive to register in the Gold section and try your hand against them :-)

So far we have  Nelson Mariano III and GM Eldar Gasanov who have registered for the Gold Section, along with Arlan Cabe, Tan Wei Liang and Jarred Neubronner among the top seeds. Entries are still open, please submit your entries by Wednesday 10pm.