Wong Meng Kong

Wong Meng Kong
CountrySingapore
Born (1963-09-18) 18 September 1963 (age 61)
TitleGrandmaster (1999)
Peak rating2507 (July 2000)

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.

References

  1. ^ Wong Meng Kong team chess record at Olimpbase.org
  2. ^ "Singapore Will Remain A Shoppers Paradise". Asian Chess Federation. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Singapore chess - a pragmatic view of standards by Junior Tay". IM Kevin Goh' s Chess Site. Blogger. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  4. ^ Khoe Wei Jun (12 June 2018). "Singapore's SEA Games medallist one step closer to becoming chess grandmaster". The Straits Times. Retrieved 9 July 2020.


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