SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 12:04 am
will host the 2024 world chess championship madtch 
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Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:47 am
Good choice. There's both a large Chinese community and a large Indian community there.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:23 am
difficult but a good choice for both players...neutral ground eases the fan pressure / expectations & hopefully drives stronger performances similar to the last one!IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:47 amGood choice. There's both a large Chinese community and a large Indian community there.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2024 11:18 am
Venue
The 2024 FIDE World Championship between Chinese defending champion GM Ding Liren and his Indian challenger GM Gukesh Dommaraju will take place in Resorts World Sentosa, a resort complex that includes Universal Studios Singapore, on an island off the coast of Singapore. The luxury venue will also host a $75,000 international open during the match.
On July 1, FIDE announced that Singapore would host the $2.5 million Ding vs. Gukesh match, while today, they announced the exact venue of the event that runs November 20-December 15.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:26 pm
I have fond memories of Singapore Chess Club, having visited Singapore on a work trip. After work night out with pizza and beer, I stumbled upon the club in July 2019 and spent a few hours afterwards playing.
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Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 7:45 am
Does Singapore have any titled players of its own yet?
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 8:10 am
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Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:04 am
It does, and I played three of them in a blitz tournament the first time I went there.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:08 pm
Indeed their first titled player - Tan Lian Ann - became an IM over half a century ago.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 6:43 pm
It's hard to think of Singapore on the map in the chess world. I don't recall any major events ever being played there before. And as anyone who has been there will tell you, its not very big.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:02 pm
Given its small size, it has arguably done pretty well in chess terms.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:04 pm
It's very small by the standards of a country; it's pretty normal-sized by the standards of a capital city, which is probably a better way of thinking about it.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:36 pm
Population of nearly six million, which is a bit more than I thought.
Re: SINGAPORE
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:20 pm
Google have been announced as the match sponsor