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Asian Championships: Vokhidov and Divya clinch titles

6/19/2023 – GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzbekistan) and WGM Divya Deshmukh (India) emerged as the winners of the 2023 Asian Continental Chess Championships. The event, with a prize fund of $100,000, held in the open and women’s sections, took place from June 3-12, 2023, in Almaty, Kazakhstan and brought together 129 players from 18 national federations. | Photos: Official website
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Indians dominate Asian Continental Championships

11/5/2022 – Praggnanandhaa and Nandhidhaa P V won the open and women’s sections of the 2022 Asian Championships, respectively. Praggnanandhaa took the sole lead in round 8, and a draw in his final game was enough for the 17-year-old to win the open. Nandhidhaa, aged 26, claimed tournament victory with one round to spare. | Photos: All India Chess Federation and Shahid Ahmed
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Le Quang Liem wins Asian Continental Championship

6/17/2019 – With 7.0/9 Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem was sole winner of the Asian Continental Championships in Xingtai, China, five players qualified for the World Cup 2019, Dinara Saduakossava won the women's event with 7½/9, Nihal Sarin finished first in the blitz tournament, and a number of interesting games were played. | Photos: Chinese Chess Federation

Karthikeyan Murali: A queen sacrifice on move nine

6/11/2019 – Chances to sacrifice your queen after nine moves are rare. But in round five of the Asian Continental Championship in Xingtai, China, the Indian Grandmaster Karthikeyan Murali had such a chance. He used it to win a brilliancy against Alireza Firouzja and to take the lead in the tournament. | Photo: Amruta Mokal (Archive)

Irine Sukandar Asian Women's Champion

5/1/2014 – The 13th Asian Continental Open in Sharjah included a Women's section. Gold went to Irine Sukandar, a 22-year-old WGM from Indonesia — not the first time she has won an Asian Continental. And already at the 2004 Olympiad in Calviá, at the age of twelve (!), she scored 10/12. This remarkable young lady has sent us pictures and annotated a game from Sharjah.

Asian Continental: Adhiban analyses

4/30/2014 – In yesterday's report on the Asian Continental Open in Sharjah, UAE, we provided a quick glimpse of a game played in the penultimate round by the silver medalist B. Adhiban. Shortly after the report went online the talented young India GM, who hails from Anand's city of Chennai, sent us wonderfully instructive analysis of this key game, which we now share with you.

Yu and Sukandar win Asian Continental 2014

4/29/2014 – Yu Yangyi is the 19-year-old veni-vidi-vici grandmaster from China, who has added this title to the many he came, saw and conquered in the past years. China trumped their chief rivals, taking three places to India's one for the World Cup in Baku next year. Indonesian WGM Irene Sukandar Kharisma won the women's section (report to follow). Games, results and analysis.

13th Asian Continental with exciting battles

4/23/2014 – At the midway point, some of the players have already begun to stake their claim to fame, and a qualifying spot into grander events yet. Though the road is long, it is one of the lower rungs toward the world championship, but so far the Elo leaders have been unable to assert their dominance. Nevertheless the players are all showing grit with exciting battles and imaginative chess.
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