A chess institute will be built in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau to train players from around the Asian region, the provincial Department of Sports announced.
Under an agreement between Vung Tau authorities and World Chess Federation (FIDE) Secretary General Ignatius Leong, the chess center will offer training in three kinds of chess, including chess, Chinese chess and shogi, or Japanese chess. Vung Tau authorities have agreed to grant a 6,000-square-meter plot ofland for the institute.
A chess institute will be built in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau to train players from around the Asian region, the provincial Department of Sports announced.
Under an agreement between Vung Tau authorities and World Chess Federation (FIDE) Secretary General Ignatius Leong, the chess center will offer training in three kinds of chess, including chess, Chinese chess and shogi, or Japanese chess. Vung Tau authorities have agreed to grant a 6,000-square-meter plot ofland for the institute.
Leong plans to invite FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to attend a ceremony to lay the first stone for the institute’s construction. The ceremony is scheduled to coincide with Ilyumzhinov’s visit to Vung Tau for the opening ceremony of the world youth chess championships in mid-October.
Shogi is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Unique to the Japanese forms of chess are the drops, moves whereby captured enemy pieces are returned into play as ally pieces.
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Source: Ba Ria-Vung Tau Newspaper
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