Local players to compete at 18th World Xiangqi Championship

The tournament will see the participation of Lai Ly Huynh and Nguyen Thanh Bao who won gold in the men's standard xiangqi team event at the tournament last year.

In addition, Bao took a bronze medal in the men's individual standard xiangqi. Their junior teammates secured three golds, two silvers, and two bronzes in the U16 and U12 boys' and girls' classes during the 17th edition of the championship. 

The 2022 version marked the country’s most successful participation in the competition at a world level.

At this year’s tournament hosted by the US for the first time, Vietnamese athletes will compete against more than 120 world-class players from some 30 countries and regions around the world in the men's individual, team, women's individual, and junior events.

The total prize money for the competition is more than US$70,000. The World Xiangqi Championship was first held in Singapore back in 1990 and has been organised every two years since 1991.

This year the 18th World Xiangqi Championship is scheduled to take place in Houston in Texas of the US between November 19 and November 25.