The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations (FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.7). It's held with the Swiss system and consists in two divisions, Open and Women's, the latter of which is reserved to female players. Both sections determine the Asian champions and qualify a certain number of players for the FIDE World Cup and knockout Women's World Chess Championship respectively.
The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2010 World Chess Championship. Ten players qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang (China), Wang Hao (China), Abhijit Kunte (India), Zhao Jun (China), Susanto Megaranto (Indonesia), Wen Yang (China), Darwin Laylo (Philippines), Zhou Jianchao (China), G. N. Gopal (India), Hossain Enamul (Bangladesh).[1]
Ten players qualified for the 2009 Chess World Cup: Ganguly Surya Shekhar (India), Zhou Weiqi (China), Yu Yangyi (China), Yu Shaoteng (China), Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam), Rogelio Antonio, Jr. (Philippines), Hou Yifan (China), Zhou Jianchao (China), Chanda Sandipan (India), and Sasikiran Krishnan (India).
Winners
Nr Year City Winner 1 1998 Tehran Template:Flagathlete 2 2000 Udaipur Template:Flagathlete 3 2001 Kolkata Template:Flagathlete 4 2003 Doha Template:Flagathlete 5 2005 Hyderabad Template:Flagathlete 6 2007 Cebu City Template:Flagathlete 7 2009 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Template:Flagathlete 8 2010 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Template:Flagathlete 9 2011 Mashhad Template:Flagathlete 10 2012 Ho Chi Minh City Template:Flagathlete 11 2013 Manila Template:Flagathlete 12 2014 Sharjah Template:Flagathlete 13 2015 Al Ain Template:Flagathlete 14 2016 Tashkent Template:Flagathlete 15 2017 Chengdu Template:Flagathlete 16 2018 Makati Template:Flagathlete 17 2019 Xingtai Template:Flagathlete
Women's winners
1 1981 Hyderabad Template:Flagathlete 2 1983 Kuala Lumpur Template:Flagathlete 3 1985 Dhaka Template:Flagathlete 4 1987 Hyderabad Template:Flagathlete 5 1991 Bhopal Template:Flagathlete 6 1996 Salem Template:Flagathlete 7 1998 Kuala Lumpur Template:Flagathlete 8 2000 Udaipur Template:Flagathlete 9 2001 Chennai Template:Flagathlete 10 2003 Kozhikode Template:Flagathlete 11 2004 Beirut Template:Flagathlete 12 2007 Tehran Template:Flagathlete 13 2009 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Template:Flagathlete 14 2010 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Template:Flagathlete 15 2011 Mashhad Template:Flagathlete 16 2012 Ho Chi Minh City Template:Flagathlete 17 2013 Manila Template:Flagathlete 18 2014 Sharjah Template:Flagathlete 19 2015 Al Ain Template:Flagathlete 20 2016 Tashkent Template:Flagathlete 21 2017 Chengdu Template:Flagathlete 22 2018 Makati Template:Flagathlete 23 2019 Xingtai Template:Flagathlete
See also
Notes
- ↑ List of Qualifiers for the World Cup 2007 from fide.com
References
- Selected tournament results 1981-2005Template:Dead link
- Tournament report of edition 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
- Results women's championship 1981-1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 2003, 2004, 2007
- Complete standings from Chess-Results.com: 2007 (Open), 2007 (Women) 2009, 2010, 2011 (Open), 2011 (Women), 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
- Asian Continental 2013 in THE WEEK IN CHESS: 2013