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 3.8). It is held with the Swiss system and consists of 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 Women's World Cup. The Championship is regulated by the Asian Chess Federation.
Winners
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[edit]Nr Year City Winner 1 1998 Tehran 
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan)
2 2000 Udaipur 
Xu Jun (China)
3 2001 Kolkata Xu Jun (China)
4 2003 Doha 
Krishnan Sasikiran (India)
5 2005 Hyderabad Zhang Zhong (China)
6 2007 Cebu City Zhang Pengxiang (China)
7 2009 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Surya Shekhar Ganguly (India)
8 2010 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Ni Hua (China)
9 2011 Mashhad Pentala Harikrishna (India)
10 2012 Ho Chi Minh City Parimarjan Negi (India)
11 2013 Manila Li Chao (China)
12 2014 Sharjah Yu Yangyi (China)
13 2015 Al Ain 
Salem A. R. Saleh (UAE)
14 2016 Tashkent S. P. Sethuraman (India)
15 2017 Chengdu Wang Hao (China)
16 2018 Makati Wei Yi (China)
17 2019 Xingtai 
Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)
18 2022 New Delhi R Praggnanandhaa (India)
19 2023 Almaty Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzbekistan)
20 2025 Al Ain 
Bardiya Daneshvar (Iran)
Women
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See also
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References
[edit]- Selected tournament results 1981-2005[permanent dead link]
- Tournament report of edition 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Results women's championship 1981-1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 2003, 2004, 2007
- Complete standings from Chess-Results.com: 2007 (Open), 2007 (Women) 2009, 2010, 2011 (Open), 2011 (Women), 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
- Asian Continental 2013 in THE WEEK IN CHESS: 2013