SINGAPORE - The pieces on the elegant wooden chessboard are moved with rapid, practised ease. Within mere seconds, chess enthusiast Jimmy Tan has demonstrated a classic set of opening moves dubbed the "Italian opening".
He made a bigger move of sorts, founding the private members' chess club Singapore Chess Social in a rented second-floor unit in a Rowell Road shophouse in Little India.
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