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June 2012
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The Knights Chess Club has been running this annual tournament for 39 years and it is considered a prestigious win. But Yee has already won all the big chess prizes, and later this year, around September, he will be seeking the one that eluded him: the national championship held by the Trinidad and Tobago Chess Association. Yee is a member of the Paladin’s and Checkmaters Chess Clubs. He is a FIDE Master (FM), a chess master title bestowed by the World Chess Federation on players who achieve certain performances in international chess tournaments. He won the FM title in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 2004. Founded in Paris in 1924, the World Chess Federation (Federation Internationale des Echecs, known as FIDE from its French acronym) was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an International Sports Federation in 1999. Chess is an affiliate member, or fully recognized by, National Olympic Committees in 115 countries, and chess as a sport is recognized in 105 countries. |
“I am happy about the victory,” says Frank Yee about his second win of the Knights Open Chess tournament recently. It is the kind of laconic and neutral response one might expect from Yee, the Network Systems Administrator, at Campus Information Technology Services at The UWI.