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Vietnam to represent Asian at World Women’s Chess Champs
Vietnam will represent Asia, sending its team – as one of the ten best teams in the world – to partake the first World Women’s Team Championship to run from May 19-30 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Vietnam won the right to compete at the event as a champion of the 2005 Asian Women’s Team Championship.

The team’s five members are master Le Kieu Thien Kim, grand master Hoang Thi Bao Tram, GM Nguyen Thi Thanh An, master Le Thanh Tu, and master Pham Le Thao Nguyen.

According to the world’s chess governing body FIDE, the ten best women’s teams are eligible to attend the first edition of the tournament to be held at four-year intervals, including four continental team champions, five top teams at world Olympiad, and a host.

Among the participants are Ukraine, Russia, China, Armenia, Georgia, Netherlands, Poland, Vietnam, Botswana, and the tenth team to represent the American continent to be decided later.

The World Chess Team Championship for Women is the sequel to the Women’s Continental Team Championships and the Women’s Chess Olympiad.

Source: FIDE, Tuoi Tre – Compiled by Minh Phat

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