With practised ease, chess enthusiast Jimmy Tan, 48, demonstrated a classic set of opening moves, dubbed the "Italian opening", on an elegant wooden chessboard.
He made a bigger gambit last year when he founded the private members' chess club Singapore Chess Social in a rented second-floor unit in a Rowell Road shophouse - an area that just a few years ago was more closely associated with illegal, tightly packed dormitories.
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