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.
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.
Vietnamese representative Nguyen Thi Thuy Trien pocketed a bronze medal
at the World Youth Chess Championships, which closed in the United Arab
Emirates over the weekend.
Nguyen Anh Khoi extended his unbeaten run by
beating Abdulla Gadimbayli of Azerbaijan in the eighth round of the
boys'' U10 category at the World Youth Chess Championships on Thursday.
Nguyen Thi Mai Hung only earned half a point after
drawing in the fifth round and losing in the sixth in the girls'' U18
event at the World Youth Chess Championships in Slovenia on Monday.
Nguyen Thi Mai Hung beat Diana Carime Real Pereyra
from Mexico in the third round of the women''s U18 event at the World
Youth Chess Championships in Slovenia on Saturday.
