2010 ASEAN Women's Chess Championship

Singapore
December 26 - 30, 2010

An array of under-rated chess talent who, mostly, do not have much opportunity to play in an international field.  That is why events like this are so crucial to the development of our female chessplayers.  Final standings (from chess-results.com):

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	WGM	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	VIE	2300	7,5	36,5	26,0	15,5
2	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	VIE	2271	7,0	37,0	26,0	15,5
3	WGM	Le Thanh Tu	VIE	2316	6,5	36,5	25,5	15,5
4	WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	INA	2382	6,0	37,5	26,5	15,5
5	WIM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	VIE	2337	5,5	38,0	27,0	16,0
	WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	VIE	2253	5,5	38,0	27,0	16,0
7	WIM	Dang Bich Ngoc	VIE	2203	4,5	36,5	25,5	15,5
8		Lestari Baiq Vina	INA	2140	4,5	30,5	22,5	13,0
9	WCM	Lindiawati Evi	INA	2114	4,5	30,0	21,5	13,0
10		Docena Jedara	PHI	2032	4,5	25,5	19,0	12,0
	WFM	Bakri Alia Anin Azwa	MAS	1953	4,5	25,5	19,0	12,0
12	WIM	Mendoza Beverly	PHI	2042	4,0	31,0	23,0	13,5
13	WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y	VIE	2223	4,0	31,0	21,5	13,0
14	WFM	Jose Rulp Ylem	PHI	2038	4,0	31,0	21,0	12,5
15	WFM	Liu Yang	SIN	2089	4,0	27,0	20,0	12,0
16	WFM	Dewi Aa Citra	INA	1989	4,0	26,5	20,0	12,0
17	WFM	Tay Li Jin Jeslin	SIN	2124	3,5	30,0	21,5	12,0
18	WFM	Lo Yin Ling Melissa	SIN	1882	2,5	28,0	21,5	13,0
19		Palomo Jenny Rose	PHI	1873	2,0	27,5	20,5	12,5
20		Cheng Jie Ling Zerlene	SIN	1815	1,5	26,5	19,5	12,0

Is Vietnam the "future" China when it comes to chess?  Stay tuned...  For my part, my eyes remain on WGM Irine Kharisma Sukandar, who should be playing in more mixed events and against male players in order to build her relative strength.  Do culture and religion play a role in preventing this from taking place, or is it just a matter of no financing to allow it to take place???

Just a note - as far as I could tell, not being familiar with the names of 99.9% of the players, all of the players in the "Open" were male.