Thursday, September 17, 2009

Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu International Open

The Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu International Chess Open opens up today in Lishui City, China.

Top seed for this tourney is Vietnam's pride GM Le Quang Liem among 56 players from 5 different countries.

Winners of this 9-round Swiss will receive the total prize fund of equivalent to US$30,000. It is said to be the first international open in China after 7 years. The organizers have confirmed that this will bean annual event with increase in prize fund every year.

Currently the Top 5 boards battle it out and you can check it out on the tourneys live feed:http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chessen_ls.html

LE QUANG LIEM VS Lu Shanglei

Wang Li VS Zhou Weiqi

Wen Yang VS Li Hanbin

Zhang Jilin VS Nana Dzagnidize

Susanto MegarantoVSHOANG THI BAO


source: www.fide.com

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

go!go! go!