More than 400 players participate in national youth chess tournament

VHO - The 2025 National Youth Chess Championship is taking place in Do Son (Hai Phong), attracting a large number of players and participating delegations.

The tournament is organized by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong city in coordination with the Vietnam Chess Federation. This is the most important professional tournament for young athletes in the national chess competition system.

Many young players participated in the tournament. Photo: Vietnam Sports Department

The tournament attracted the participation of more than 400 players from 36 units. Of these, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are the two units with the most athletes participating in the tournament.

Among the players competing at the tournament, there are many faces who have just won medals at the 2025 World Youth Championship such as: Nguyen Nam Kiet, Tran Hoang Bao An, Duong Vu Anh, Tong Thai Hoang An, Hoang Tan Vinh, Nguyen Xuan Phuong, Nguyen Bao Nam, Nguyen Thanh Huong, Nguyen Binh Vy, along with many national and international young masters.

With the competition format of 9 rounds according to the Swiss system, drawn by the Swiss-manager program, athletes compete in 80 sets of individual medals for men and women in 10 age groups in 4 competition events: Standard chess, rapid chess, blitz chess, and super blitz chess.

At last year's tournament, Ho Chi Minh City was the team that won first place overall with 21 gold medals, 20 silver medals, and 40 bronze medals.

This year, the Ho Chi Minh City chess team with potential faces is still highly appreciated by experts in the competition contents.

The tournament will run until July 28.

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