Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, will host the Asian Individual Chess Championship 2026 from 20 – 30 May.
This will be the 21st Asian Individual Men Chess Championship and the 27th Asian Individual Women Chess Championship.
Al Ain of the UAE organized the 2025 edition with 100,000.00 US$ Cash Prizes.
The regulation will be published soon.
History of Asian Individuals Winners
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Nr Year City Winner 1 1998 Tehran 
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan)2 2000 Udaipur 
Xu Jun (China)3 2001 Kolkata Xu Jun (China)4 2003 Doha 
Krishnan Sasikiran (India)5 2005 Hyderabad Zhang Zhong (China)6 2007 Cebu City Zhang Pengxiang (China)7 2009 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Surya Shekhar Ganguly (India)8 2010 Subic Bay Freeport Zone Ni Hua (China)9 2011 Mashhad Pentala Harikrishna (India)10 2012 Ho Chi Minh City Parimarjan Negi (India)11 2013 Manila Li Chao (China)12 2014 Sharjah Yu Yangyi (China)13 2015 Al Ain 
Salem A. R. Saleh (UAE)14 2016 Tashkent S. P. Sethuraman (India)15 2017 Chengdu Wang Hao (China)16 2018 Makati Wei Yi (China)17 2019 Xingtai 
Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)18 2022 New Delhi R Praggnanandhaa (India)19 2023 Almaty Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzbekistan)20 2025 Al Ain 
Bardiya Daneshvar (Iran)
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