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Tin Jingyao

Chess

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- Tin Jingyao is Singapore's youngest and highest-rated chess grandmaster, having been awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in August 2022, and is a six-time Singapore Chess Championship winner. He first encountered chess in 2008 when he stumbled upon a game on his aunt's computer, and by 2010 had drawn the attention of legendary world champion Garry Kasparov, who commended the then nine-year-old as "a real player" after their simultaneous exhibition game. At the SEA Games, he won silver in the men's rapid individual event and bronzes in the men's standard individual and blitz individual categories at the 2021 edition. In 2025, he made history by becoming the first Singaporean to win the Asian Zone 3.3 Chess Championship, qualifying him for the FIDE World Cup.

2021 SEA Games - Men Standard Individual, Bronze
2021 SEA Games - Men Rapid Individual, Silver
2021 SEA Games - Men Blitz Individual, Joint Bronze
2021 Asian Individual Hybrid Chess Championships - Men Standard Individual, 2nd pos