The championship, featured 323 chess masters from 35 countries and territories, competing in the U14, U16, and U18 age groups. Việt Nam sent a team of 15 players to compete in both rapid and blitz categories for boys and girls.
Vietnamese International Master Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son won the Asian
Continental Rapid Chess Championship''s Open group in the United Arab
Emirates on Tuesday.
Unknown player Tran Thanh Tu defeated Grandmasters to win the men''s gold
medal at the National Rapid Chess Championships, which ended in HCM
City on May 3.
International Grandmaster Le Quang Liem''s ranking fell from the top 10
to the 19th place in the rapid discipline at the FIDE World Rapid and
Blitz Championships 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, yesterday.
Vietnamese top chess player Le Quang Liem only gained two points in the
rapid discipline at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, yesterday.
Vietnamese Le Quang Liem stood seventh out of 113 players in the rapid
discipline at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014 in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, yesterday.
Viet Nam collected six gold medals at the 15th ASEAN+ Age Group
Championships'' rapid chess event at the Cotai Sands Conference Centre in
Macau on Tuesday.
Viet Nam''s top chess players Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
will compete in the 2014 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships
in Dubai between June 15-21.
Kien Giang Province representative Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son is alone atop
the National Rapid Chess Championship rankings, with six points from
seven matches.
Teammates Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Vo Thanh Ninh
shared the top place after three rounds in the first day of the National
Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in HCM City.