GM Tin Jingyao and WGM Gong Qianyun successfully defended their titles as Singapore’s national chess champions.
The 76th Singapore National Championship, featuring a record prize pool, took place at the Asian Civilisations Museum from February 4–25. Men and women competed in a single event but were ranked separately.
GM Tin Jingyao dominated the tournament, achieving a perfect score of 9/9 with an impressive tournament performance rating of 3000.
GM Siddharth Jagadeesh finished second, 2.5 points behind the champion, while four players—IM Enrique Paciencia, FM Jayden Wong, Tang Yiheng, and Elliot Wong—tied for third place with 6/9. Paciencia claimed bronze thanks to a superior Buchholz tiebreak score.
In the women’s competition, WGM Gong Qianyun won her 11th National Championship title after defeating WIM Anjela Khegay in an exciting tiebreaker. Both players had finished the tournament with 5/9. This victory marks an extraordinary milestone, as it is also Gong’s 10th consecutive title, cementing a decade of her supremacy in Singaporean women’s chess.
WIM Anjela Khegay took silver, while Eden Pang completed the podium with bronze.
Final standings:
Photos: Singapore Chess Federation