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17 Apr 2002

Sophos chess Grand Master Challenge gathers momentum and introduces Christer Aplin, Singapore's Under-10 National Champion and Asia's youngest Chess Champion

Singapore - Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection, while participating at the Information Security World (Asia) exhibition this week at Suntec City, has been hosting a chess Grand Master Challenge, pitting the public's skills against Singaporeís No. 1 Master, Wu Shao Bin.

The chess challenge has been so popular with exhibition visitors that on Thursday 18 April Sophos will introduce Asia's youngest Champion and a Singaporean, Christer Aplin, who at the age of nine will play up to three challengers simultaneously.

Members of the media are invited to visit the Sophos stand (4B07, Hall 404) at the Information SecurityWorld (Asia) exhibition, Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre, to witness the Sophos Grand Master Challenge featuring Christer Aplin. It begins at 1:30pm and will run until 4:00pm.

Christer will represent Singapore and will compete in the World Under-10 Championship in November this year in Greece.

About Sophos

More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.

Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.