The 11th Asian Continental/Individual Open and Women's Chess Championships
are taking place from May 4th to 14th 2012 at the First Hotel, in Ho Chi Minh
city, Vietnam.
The tournament is a Swiss of 11 rounds. The time control is 90 minutes for
the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition
of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. Draw offer is not allowed before
30th move. The Total prize fund is US $65,000, with the winner of the open section
getting $6,000 and the winner of the women's $3,000.
At the opening ceremony, the national anthem
A dance recital to kick things off
Technical meeting before the start of round one
The start of round one
Round one board one shocker: Chinese GM Xiu Deshun, rated 2494, beat top seed
GM Le Quang Liem of Vietnam, rated 2703, with the black pieces
Top Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta, rated 2644
Indian GM B. Adhiban, rated 2555
Vietnamese GM Cao Sang, rated 2513
Top seed in the Women's (by 100 points) GM Zhao Xue of China, rated 2549
Wang Jue of China, untitled but rated 2364
WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs of Mongolia, rated 2363
Indian IM Nisha Mohota, rated 2321
WGM Le Thanh Tu of Vietnam, rated 2313
WGM Irine Kharisma Sukandar of Indonesia, rated 2288, currently leading
with 3.0/3
Report and photos by Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh
Open section
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Women's section
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Video reports by Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh
Introduction and opening ceremony (2:20 min into the video) and the start
of round one
Action from the playing hall, interviews (with captions in English!) and
analysis with ChessBase graphics. You
should definitely go to 3:40 min for an enchanting wrap-up, including typical
Vietnamese implosive consonants
Roud three report, with nice interviews with Sukandar Irine Kharisma and
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, and then two
wonderfully cute – there, we said it! – Vietnamese anchors summarising
the round in news-room style.
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