高家瀚

English

KAO Jamison Edrich is a Hong Kong chess player, born around 2009 and a Candidate Master. Fond of board games from an early age, he fell for chess after a chance encounter and first taught himself through online instructional videos before moving to structured training under the Azerbaijani grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch over a period of about two and a half years. In 2023, instead of entering ninth grade, he suspended his schooling to focus on chess and competition, and that year was selected for the Hong Kong, China delegation to the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou at the age of just fourteen. His father, Geoffrey Kao, is honorary president of the Hong Kong China Chess Federation and has served as the territory's team manager, so both father and son have long been connected with the local game. In 2025 the 15th Asian Amateur Chess Championship was held in Hong Kong for the first time, staged from 1 to 9 August at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals TungPo Wu Lei Ming Ching Sports Centre and drawing more than 400 players from nearly 30 countries and territories, a record for the event; there Jamison finished fifth in the U2300 open section and was recognised, along with Ha Xuejing, as one of the tournament's outstanding Hong Kong players, also placing eighth in the blitz open section. He said afterwards that physical condition had limited him, but that he had played well in the final three games, adding thirteen points.