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Chess At The 2019 SEA Games
Chess at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games was the first SEA Games tournament since the 2013 edition in Naypyidaw. Chess will feature seven team events. Among these events are men's and women's blitz, rapid and standard while other categories such as bullet, lightning, armageddon and the Asian chess are also under consideration for inclusion. The National Chess Federation of the Philippines originally planned to host individual events but scrapped such plans. Chess is being held from 1 to 8 December 2019. Three demonstration events were also held in chess. Medal summary Medal table Medalists Demonstration events References External links * {{Events at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ... Southeast Asian Games 2019 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subic, Zambales
Subic, officially the Municipality of Subic ( ilo, Ili ti Subic; tl, Bayan ng Subic), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Zambales, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 111,912 people. It is located along the northern coast of Subic Bay. Portions of the town also form part of the Subic Freeport Zone. Subic is from Iba, from Olongapo, and from Manila. Etymology The native Zambales inhabitants called the area ''Hubek'', which means "head of a plough"; Spanish missionary priests mispronounced the name as ''Subiq''. By the time of the American occupation, "Subiq" was mispronounced as ''Subig''. Eventually the name reverted to "Subiq", but the letter 'q' was replaced with 'c'. History In 1572, Juan de Salcedo, the Mexico-born Spanish conquistador and grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, founded Zambales during his exploration of northern Luzon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lê Quang Liêm
Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm is the current Asian champion and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013. He has competed for team Vietnam at the Chess Olympiad since 2006. The best result occurred in 2012, when he scored 8/10 points on board 1 and his team finished in 7th place, the highest ever for Vietnam. Chess career Early career Lê Quang Liêm won a gold medal at the 2003 Asian Youth Chess Championships, held in Calicut, India, in the Under 12 category. As a result of this victory he was awarded the title of FIDE Master. In the 2004 edition, which took place in Singapore, Lê Quang Liêm won the Under 14 section. Also in 2004, he tied with Subramanian Arun Prasad for first place in the Asian Under 16 Championship in Tehran, Iran, taking the silver medal on tiebreak score. The next year Quang Liêm won the Under 14 division of the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess In The Philippines
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess At The SEA Games
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm
Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm (born 9 January 1987) is a Vietnamese chess player and Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship winner (2011, 2018), Women's Asian Team Chess Championship team gold winner (2005), and two-time World Women's Team Chess Championships individual medalist (2011, 2017). Biography Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm won Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship in 2011 and in 2018. Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm played for Vietnam in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 2006, at second board in the 37th Chess Olympiad (women) in Turin (+5, =4, -2), * In 2008, at fourth board in the 38th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dresden (+4, =0, -4), * In 2010, at first board in the 39th Chess Olympiad (women) in Khanty-Mansiysk (+3, =2, -4), * In 2014, at third board in the 41st Chess Olympiad (women) in Tromsø (+4, =2, -3), * In 2016, at second board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Baku (+4, =3, -4), * In 2018, at third board in the 43rd Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite
Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite (born 2 November 1995) is an Indonesian chess player and Twitch streamer. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2011 and has also represented Indonesia in five chess olympiads ( Khanty-Mansiysk 2010, Istanbul 2012, Tromsø 2014, Baku 2016, Batumi 2018). Chess career In June 2011, she has earned a Woman International Master title during the 12th ASEAN+ Age Group Chess Championship in Tarakan. She scored 6.5 points (+5 =3 -1), finishing in joint first place with Võ Thi Kim Phung and Zhansaya Abdumalik but placing third on tiebreak points. In August 2012, she participated in the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens. She scored 8.5 points (+8 =1 -4), finishing in eighth place, a point behind the winner, Guo Qi. In September 2012, she has earned her first Woman Grandmaster norm during the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. She scored 8 points (+7 =2 -1), the third-best individual performance on board two, behind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medina Warda Aulia
Medina Warda Aulia (born 7 July 1997 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian chess player. She has held the title of International Master since 2020, and Woman Grandmaster since 2013. She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021, being defeated by Harika Dronavalli in the second round, and the Women's Chess World Cup 2023, where she beat Janelle Mae Frayna in the first round, and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh in the second round. Achievements * 4th World Schools Chess Championships 2008 -Girls U11 * 10th ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships - Girls 12 in 2010 * 2nd Asean Chess Championships 2011 - Women * Silver medal 2011 SEA Games Women's Individual Blitz Chess * Bronze medal 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Mixed Team Blitz * Bronze medal 2013 SEA Games Women's International Rapid and Women's International Blitz * Bronze medal 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Women's Team Rapid * Gold medal 2021 SEA Games The 2021 Southeast Asian Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Đông ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irine Kharisma Sukandar
Irene Kharisma Sukandar (born 7 April 1992) is an Indonesian chess player and a two-time Asian women's champion. She is the first female player from Indonesia to achieve both the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM) titles. She graduated from Gunadarma University. She won two gold medals at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games. Career Sukandar won the Indonesian Women's Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010. She has represented Indonesia in five Women's Chess Olympiads from 2004 to 2014, the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship in 2009, the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in 2007, the 2006 Asian Games, the 2009 Asian Indoor Games, and the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. She won the individual silver medal on board 3 in the 36th Chess Olympiad in 2004 and bronze in the team blitz chess event at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Sukandar was joint winner, with Vietnamese player Pham Bich Ngoc, of the under-16 girls' section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gong Qianyun
Gong Qianyun (; born 11 March 1985) is a Singaporean chess player and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Chess career Since Gong was seven year old, she started training in a chess academy in Guangdong, China. 2001 to 2009 Gong finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship. Gong played on board four on the Chinese women's team — the only women's team present — at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005. The following year, she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria with a score of 7/9 points, contributing to China's team gold medal. After a series of defeat, Gong left the Chinese teams in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong where she taught chess there. 2009 to present In 2009, Gong moved to Singapore to work as a chess coach. She won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, Gong transferred to the Singapore Chess Federation and started to repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynn Zaw Htun
Wynn Zaw Htun ( my, ဝင်းဇော်ထွန်း; born 15 September 1982) is a Burmese chess International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and .... Currently the top ranked player in Myanmar, Wynn Zaw Htun has won the Myanmar National Chess Championship nine times: in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2013–2015, and 2017–2019 References External links * 1982 births Living people Burmese chess players Chess International Masters SEA Games medalists in chess SEA Games silver medalists for Myanmar Competitors at the 2011 SEA Games 20th-century Burmese people 21st-century Burmese people {{Myanmar-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamad Ervan
Mohamad Ervan (born 1992) is an Indonesian chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2019. Chess career Ervan won the Indonesian Chess Championship in 2018. After his sixth-place performance in the 2021 Asian Individual Hybrid Chess Championships, where he was seeded 36th, he qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was drawn against Nodirbek Abdusattorov Nodirbek Abdusattorov (born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and the 2021 World Rapid Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the ... in the first round. He was defeated in their first game, but failed a COVID-19 test before their second game, handing the tie to his opponent by walkover. References External links * * 1992 births Living people Chess Olympiad competitors Indonesian chess players Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanto Megaranto
Susanto Megaranto (born 8 October 1987) is an Indonesian chess player. In 2004, he became the youngest Indonesian ever to qualify for the title Grandmaster at 17, beating out Utut Adianto's record by four years. He won the Indonesian Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010. He graduated from Gunadarma University. In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eugenio Torre in the SEA Games in Vietnam. In the same year he tied for first with Mark Paragua in the Singapore Masters Open and won the event on tie-break. In 2007 he tied for 3rd-8th with Abhijit Kunte, Zhao Jun, Wen Yang, Darwin Laylo and Zhou Jianchao in the Asian Chess Championship. In 2008, he tied for 3rd-7th with Marat Dzhumaev, Darwin Laylo, Dražen Sermek and Ashot Nadanian in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Irwanto Sadikin and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan in the Kuala Lumpur Open. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
