Wong Meng Kong Explained

Wong Meng Kong
Country:Singapore
Birth Date:18 September 1963
Grandmaster (1999)
Peakrating:2507 (July 2000)
Fideid:5800030

Wong Meng Kong (born 18 September 1963) a Singaporean chess grandmaster. He won the Singaporean Chess Championship in 1986, 1989, 1990 and 1991. He represented Singapore at the Chess Olympiad eleven times (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006).[1]

Wong won the 1979 Asian Junior Chess Championship in Sivakasi.[2] [3] In 1999, he was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE, becoming the first Singaporean to achieve this feat.[4]

Wong did his 'O'-Levels at Anglo-Chinese School in 1979 and his 'A'-Levels at Anglo-Chinese Junior College in 1981. He went on to get his medical degree from National University of Singapore in 1987. He currently resides in Malaysia where he is a lecturer at Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia. He has long hair and can speak Cantonese and Mandarin.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/5tv5lpte.html Wong Meng Kong
  2. Web site: Singapore Will Remain A Shoppers Paradise. Asian Chess Federation. 9 November 2015. 2013-03-19.
  3. Web site: Singapore chess - a pragmatic view of standards by Junior Tay. IM Kevin Goh' s Chess Site. Blogger. 9 November 2015. 2013-03-14.
  4. Web site: Khoe Wei Jun. 2018-06-12. Singapore's SEA Games medallist one step closer to becoming chess grandmaster. 2020-07-09. The Straits Times.