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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Vietnam to host three international chess tournaments this year

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Hi everyone,

Some nice chess news from Hanoi. Vietnam will host three international chess tournaments this year, including the HDBank Cup Open Chess Tournament in March, the Asian Continental Chess Championships in May, and the ASEAN and Age Groups Chess Championships in June, according to Vietnam Government officials. 
The HDBank Cup Open Chess Tournament will be held in southern Ho Chi Minh City, where winners are set to walk away with a bonus of 30,000 U.S. dollars. In its first edition in 2011, Nguyen Thi Mai Hung of Vietnam won the women's title, while Yu Yangyi of China bagged the men's title.

The Asian Continental Chess Championships is seen as part of the qualifiers for the 2013 World Cup, where winners will receive an official ticket to the World Cup to be held in Norway from August 10 to September 5.

The ASEAN and Age Groups Chess Championships will be held in Hue city. Vietnam are the defending champions in the age group event with 51 gold, 21 silver and 30 bronze medals won in Indonesia in June last year. 

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