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A few days before the 2014 FIDE Presidential Elections, [4] the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy report on the Presidential Elections campaign. Included was information about a leaked contract between Garry Kasparov and Leong from Singapore, in which the Kasparov campaign reportedly "offered to pay Leong $500,000 and to pay $250,000 a year for four years to the Asean Chess Academy ...
With this gold medal, she became the first Kazakhstani world champion in chess. [8] Earlier in the year, she had also won the same division of the Asian Youth Chess Championships. [10] After working with Peregudov through 2011, Abdumalik spent a year at the ASEAN Chess Academy in Singapore training with Zhang Zhong, a Singaporean Grandmaster (GM).
The Singapore Chess Federation (Abbreviation: SCF) is the principal authority over all chess events in Singapore. SCF was founded in 1949 by Lim Kok Ann. [1] The Federation is affiliated to the world governing body, International Chess Federation (FIDE), and is part of the ASEAN Chess Confederation and the Asian Chess Federation.
He won the national Singaporean Chess Championship in 2003 and 2005. He is married to former Women's World Chess Champion Xie Jun. [2] In 1998, Wu Shaobin became China's 8th Grandmaster. He played for China in the 1994 Chess Olympiad and for Singapore in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Chess Olympiads. [3] He gained the title of FIDE Trainer in 2005.
In 2010 he played in Singapore the first game of an exhibition blitz match between top Singaporean players and Garry Kasparov. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In March 2011, in Hungary, he won back to back the First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest [ 5 ] and the Caissa GM tournament in Kecskemét ; in this latter he achieved his first norm required for the title ...
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The Singapore Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of Singapore organised by the Singapore Chess Federation. The event also features a Challengers section, which is a FIDE-rated tournament for amateur chess players. In 2015, the Challengers section was named "Singapore Amateur Chess Championship".