The Hanoi International Chess Tournament 2023 is the second tournament in the Hanoi International Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2023 series, organized by the Vietnam Chess Federation in collaboration with the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports .
Chess player Dao Minh Nhat won the International Grandmaster category. Wynn Zaw Htunn (Myanmar) won the International Master category. The FIDE Master category champion was chess player Doan The Duc.
With this achievement, Dao Minh Nhat earned the International Grandmaster norm. In addition, chess player Bang Gia Huy achieved the International Master norm. This is the first International Master norm for the 14-year-old Hanoi chess player.
President of the Vietnam Chess Federation Pham Minh Tien (first from the left), and Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Pham Xuan Tai (fifth from the left) present awards to chess players Dao Minh Nhat, Soham Kamotra (India), and Banh Gia Huy.
Concluding the two tournaments of the Hanoi International Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2023, three players achieved the International Grandmaster and International Master norms.
This is considered a successful tournament for many Vietnamese chess players. Several Vietnamese players increased their international Elo rating, most impressively Banh Gia Huy with 200 Elo points, expected to rise to 5th place in the list of Vietnamese players with the highest Elo ratings by July.
The Hanoi International Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2023, which includes two tournaments for Grandmaster, International Master, and FIDE Master titles, along with the Vietnam-Singapore international Elo rating exchange tournament, brought together 42 players from Singapore (8 players), India (4 players), Great Britain (1 player), Russia (competing under the name of the World Chess Federation - FIDE, 2 players), Bangladesh (2 players), Australia (1 player), Indonesia (1 player), Myanmar (1 player), the Philippines (1 player), and host country Vietnam with 20 players.
At the tournament, the Vietnamese chess team also played a friendly match against the Singaporean chess team, winning 24-8 in the first round and 20-12 in the second round.
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