Hai Duong Chess Team Won Big in the First Tournament After Establishing the Team

On December 6, the leader of the Hai Duong Sports Training, Coaching and Competition Center said that the Hai Duong chess team had just returned from the 2023 Northern Open Chess Championship, winning 10 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals in rapid chess, individual blitz chess, and team events.

With this achievement, the Hai Duong chess team ranked third overall after two very strong teams, the host Quang Ninh and the Future Grandmaster Chess Club (Hanoi).

In this tournament, the Hai Duong chess team sent all 8 players of the team to compete, with 5/8 players winning medals. Notably, the 5-year-old player of Hai Duong, Nguyen Hoang Anh, competed with the U7 group. Although he did not win a medal, he is one of the youngest athletes of Hai Duong to compete in a major tournament. Nguyen Hoang Anh from Hai Duong City trained at the Blue Horse Chess Club (Hai Duong) before becoming an athlete of the chess team of the Hai Duong Sports Training, Coaching and Competition Center.

Currently, the Hai Duong chess team has 8 players aged 5-9. This is the youngest team and the athletes have the lowest average age among the 28 teams of the Hai Duong Sports Training, Coaching and Competition Center.

The team currently does not have a coach. The players are training and competing under the guidance of coaches from the Blue Horse Chess Club.

The 2023 Northern Open Chess Championship has 29 sports delegations from provinces and cities, with over 600 players in age groups U7, U9, U11, U13, U15, U17 participating.