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'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 Championship is regulated by the Asian Chess Federation.
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 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).
Ten players 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
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)