Nguyen Anh Khoi yesterday became world U12 chess champion after beating
Russian Andrey Esipenk in the final match of the World Youth Chess
Championships 2014 in Durban, South Africa.
Vietnamese player Nguyen Anh Khoi re-entered the world''s top 10 by
defeating Finnish Keinaken Toivo in the ninth match at the ongoing World
Youth Chess Championships 2014.
Nguyen Anh Khoi of Viet Nam won one match and drew one yesterday to jump
to the fourth position in the World Youth Chess Championships boys'' U12
rankings.
Nguyen Anh Khoi of Viet Nam yesterday defeated
India''s Saurabh Anand to maintain his lead in the U12 category at the
Asian Youth Chess Championships underway in Uzbekistan.
Vietnamese masters dominated in the 15th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess
Championships held at the Cotai Sands Central in Macau after bagging
three out of four top positions.
World U10 champion Nguyen Anh Khoi will compete in
the U20 category in the Southeast Asian Nations Age-Group Chess
Championships which begin today at Sands Cotai Central in Macau, China.
Nguyen Anh Khoi continued to confound experts with his chess prowess,
winning silver at the National All-star Chess Tournament which concluded
yesterday in HCM City.
Nguyen Anh Khoi, 11, stormed to victory in the boy''s U16 standard
category at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Open Chess Championships which
wrapped up in Thailand on Thursday.
Young Vietnamese chess star Nguyen Anh Khoi, the
world under-10 champion, has been seeded No 1 ahead of the forthcoming
ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
"Khoi, the champion!" the students chanted as they
sat in their classroom waiting to meet their classmate and idol Nguyen
Anh Khoi, winner of several national and international chess titles.