THOMSON CHESS CLUB

Singapore Chess Meetup Organiser Mr Bradley Loh has graciously volunteered to conduct a 45min lecture each month on a World Champion and his life/1 game. This is suited for post-beginners and young players aged 8 and above. We start the first in the series with Paul Morphy - the first American chess champion before Bobby Fischer. The Lecture shall be on February 12 2016 at 8pm and will last 45minutes. The room can sit no more than 16, so please email me at johnwongfk63@gmail.com to book your seats. Members only please

2015 is drawing to a close. We are forming plans to make Thomson Chess Club even more vibrant. Here's some of the plans: THOMSON CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 31 JANUARY  2016 I propose the following changes to the Club Championship as a testbed for more of such activities to be organised at the National level if we succeed. 1  Rapid with increment     The time control of 25 minutes will be adjusted to 22 minutes with 5 second increment. For a game of average 50 moves, that takes 26 minutes approximating the usual 25 0. This will be a 7 round event starting 9am.  2   New Veterans Section     This category is introduced to allow older players who have not been playing to come out of "retirement" against fellow adults aged 40 and above. With more practice they should be able to hold their own against the younger players. THOMSON CLUB LEAGUE The new league will start 1st Friday of January 2016. This will commence on 745pm sharp with no zer...

Most major exams are over this week so we resume our weely sessions from this Friday 730pm. If you have not registered for the Thomson Fiesta do it this Friday! It will be like this again so do come early!

November 7-8 is the weekend you'd want to spend at Thomson CC for the Thomson Chess Fiesta! 2 more weeks..please sign up as soon as you can because we can only take in a total of 160 players maximum. See you all there.

Yes, its the time of year when children are preparing for exams coming around the month of October. Therefore the Chess Club shall be closed on Fridays for the month of October and we shall resume practices on 30 October. Please note.

As a mark of respect for our founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the Thomson Chess Fiesta shall be postponed to 7-8 November. Participants who have signed up can get their refunds if they are unable to commit to the new date. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANYMORE ENTRIES FOR 28-29 MARCH. WE WILL RELEASE NEW FORMS CLOSER TO NOVEMBER. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yes, the Thomson Chess Club will be open on Friday 13 tonight for those wanting to put in more practice before next week's National Schools Individual Championship. Priority of course goes to members first. We start 730pm as always.

Please follow this link for more details Appreciate if you can submit your entry early so as to avoid disappointment as we can receive up to 180 entries max for the Open and Challengers combined. Thanks. See you soon.

We shall have a Junior Blitz Tournament tournament tonight, played on 6 minutes to finish instead of 5. All present aged 14 and under can play. See you there.

All 3 winners will get a chess book.

72 entries were received,some past closing date which did cause some hiccups during the first round pairings. We apologise for the delay. Fortunately it did not cause major changes in the schedule to follow. We had 33 entries in the Juniors, of which 12 of my students took part. Isaiah came in 2nd with 5.5/7, followed by Qi Xuan in 5th place and I Shiang on 8th. Top 10 places were awarded books as prizes, with the 1st 3 winners getting 2 books each. Alexander Chan (above left) managed to fend off challenges from the likes of Cyrus Nisban and Royce Tan to emerge the winner of the Seniors with 6 pts, conceding only 2 draws to Lee I-Shiuan and Limono Handjojo. Cheong Sue Lyn managed 4 pts this time on 17th place in a pool of 36 players. Overall, a satisfying tournament with good enthusiastic players wanting to play chess.

Till last night we had received 55 entries for the Thomson Club Championship, 24 in the Seniors and 31 in the Juniors. Keep them coming!

The 10th Thomson Chess Club Championship will be held on 25 January at the Thomson Community Club Hall from 10am till 6pm. It is open for members only, hence those interested to play MUST sign up at the Thomson CC as members of the Chess Club. You need to have a valid PAssioncard before joining. The tournament details are provided at http://singaporechess.org.sg/calendar/17-local-events/103-thomson-chess-club-club-championship-2015 , Closing date is 21 January 2015 10pm. There are 2 sections, the Seniors (No age limit) and Juniors (aged 12 and under). Prizes will be given based number of entries received, minimally 5 per section.

Just when I was racking my boxes for more books to be given away as prizes, a kind friend Tony came with 2 boxes of the above. Offered for a bargain discount, I took them in and now we have the prizes ready for the coming Thomson Club Championship. Yay!

The League starts this Friday, games start at 745pm. Time control is 45 minutes per side. All games must be recorded. The League shall end on last Friday of February. If you cannot make it for the week please inform me so you will not be paired. Interested members please message me direct via Whatsapp 97985479. Prizes for top 3.

Went through my old emails and found out that the Thomson CC Chess Club was open on April 17 2005! Hence we intend to celebrate the club championship in a big way - hoping for more entries (members) to sign up. Entry forms should be available from the CC counter tonight at 730pm. We have 2 sections, the Seniors ( no age limit ) and Juniors (aged 12 and under based on birth year). Should there be sufficient Under 8 or those not having played many tournaments, we may create a new Novice  category.

Happy 2015 to all chessplayers! This is the new Thomson Chess Club blog site and all news and results regarding the Club activities shall now be posted here. Tonight is our first session for 2015 and this is our 10th anniversary this year. How time flies! So we will be doing a couple more events in 2015 to commemorate the Club's founding and the first shall be the Thomson Club Championship. All you need to do to play in this is SIGN UP as a member. No entry fees. Plus you get to win some prizes ( I have a sponsor ready) so for this year prize winners get NEW books rather than used ones.  We hope all who are interested in playing chess over the board can come and see for themselves the conditions they can play chess in, We will try to maintain a decent volume this year so no complaints of noise should arise.  THE CLUB SHALL BE CLOSED IN MAY AND OCTOBER for there will be poor attendance expected due to the exam period, unless there is enough interest amongst the ad...