GMWei Ming Kevin Goh

Kevin Goh Wei Ming was born in 1983. He won the boys’ under-18 section at the inaugural ASEAN Age Group Championships in 2000. At the 2005 Southeast Asian Games he earned individual and team bronze medals in classical chess. He won eight Singapore national championships between 2006 and 2023 and began representing the country at Olympiads in 2004.

Goh won consecutive grandmaster tournaments in Budapest and Kecskemét in March 2011, earning his first GM norm in the latter. A second followed at the 2012 Asian Nations Cup, and he completed his final norm at the 2018 QCD-Prof Lim Kok Ann Invitational in Singapore. He fulfilled the remaining rating requirement and received the grandmaster title in 2020. His book The Sicilian Najdorf 6 Bg5 was published in 2014.