Asian Chess Championship

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 were 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 were 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

NrYearCityWinner
11998Tehran Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan)
22000Udaipur Xu Jun (China)
32001Kolkata Xu Jun (China)
42003Doha Krishnan Sasikiran (India)
52005Hyderabad Zhang Zhong (China)
62007Cebu City Zhang Pengxiang (China)
72009Subic Bay Freeport Zone Surya Shekhar Ganguly (India)
82010Subic Bay Freeport Zone Ni Hua (China)
92011Mashhad Pendyala Harikrishna (India)
102012Ho Chi Minh City Parimarjan Negi (India)
112013Manila Li Chao (China)
122014Sharjah Yu Yangyi (China)
132015Al Ain Salem A. R. Saleh (UAE)
142016Tashkent S.P. Sethuraman (India)
152017Chengdu Wang Hao (China)

Women's winners

11981Hyderabad Rohini Khadilkar (India)
21983Kuala Lumpur Rohini Khadilkar (India)
31985Dhaka Anupama Gokhale (India)
41987Hyderabad Anupama Gokhale (India)
51991Bhopal Bhagyashree Thipsay (India)
61996Salem Tamin Upi Darmayana (Indonesia)
71998Kuala Lumpur Xu Yuhua (China)
82000Udaipur Hoang Thanh Trang (Vietnam)
92001Chennai Li Ruofan (China)
102003Kozhikode Humpy Koneru (India)
112004Beirut Wang Yu (China)
122007Tehran Tania Sachdev (India)
132009Subic Bay Freeport Zone Zhang Xiaowen (China)
142010Subic Bay Freeport Zone Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iran)
152011Mashhad Harika Dronavalli (India)
162012Ho Chi Minh City Irine Kharisma Sukandar (Indonesia)
172013Manila Huang Qian (China)
182014Sharjah Irine Kharisma Sukandar (Indonesia)
192015Al Ain Mitra Hejazipour (Iran)
202016Tashkent Bhakti Kulkarni (India)
212017Chengdu Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vietnam)

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