The national youth chess championship will be held in Bac Giang from May 24 to June 5, with the northern province freshly issuing a plan on the organisation of the event.

Winning all 11 matches, Nguyen Vu Bao Chau topped the FIDE World Cadet Rapid and Blitz Championship 2024 in Durres, Albania, which closed on April 29.

Vietnam will host at least four chess competitions of the Hanoi International Chess Series in 2024, which will deliver world point ranking for successful masters.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Tuan Minh has emerged victorious in this year’s first weekly Bullet Brawl arena, an online tournament where titled players competed for a piece of the US$1,000 prize fund.

VOV.VN - Le Phan Hoang Quan brought home a gold medal in the boys’ U8 standard event on the final competition day, raising the total number of medals to six golds at the Asian Youth Chess Championships 2023 held in Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on December 22.

VOV.VN - The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has listed the winners from throughout the history of the world blitz chess championship, including local chess player Le Quang Liem who won a title back in 2013.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese youth chess team secured three individual gold medals in the Blitz chess category at the ongoing Asian Youth Chess Championships 2023 which was held in Al Ain in the UAE.

VOV.VN - Indian chess player Ilamparthi A from India, the 2022 U14 world chess champion, has triumphed at the Hanoi International Chess Tournament which concluded in the capital on December 10.

Vietnamese chess player Lai Ly Huynh has defended his championship in the men’s individual rapid xiangqi (Chinese chess) category at the 18th World Xiangqi Championship which wrapped up on November 25 in the US.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese chess players are set to depart for Houston in Texas of the United States this November to vie for titles at the 18th World Xiangqi Championship.