The Asian Dragons Invitational Tournament was firstly held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2007, being the first international chess tournament organized by Chinese Taipei Chess Association. The original purpose of the tournament was to provide opportunity for developing players with ratings below 2200 to compete against players with similar strength, offering them a friendly yet competitive environment. With this purpose in mind, the tournament was played for the Open section and Under 16 section with players coming from Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Korea and the host federation, Chinese Taipei. After many years of success, the host federation had received many requests to participate from countries other than mentioned above. Starting from 2013, we invited other federations if the free quota is not fully used. At the same time, we openly welcome players from all over the world. Thus, the name of the tournament has been changed to Asian Dragons International Chess tournament since 2013. The strength of players from the invited federations have grown substantially since 2007, the upper limit of rating 2200 for open section has been removed since 2016.
Iwan Schani Ibnu of Malaysia (second from right) won the 2024 Asian Dragons International Invitational Tournament held 16-20 July 2024 at the National Taiwan University in Chinese Taipei. Ibnu finished in a tie with David Zion Chiu of Hong Kong (center) at 7 points each but the Malaysian prevailed in the Direct Encounter tie break. Visit chess-results.com for round by round results.
Muhd Haziq Muhd Nasruddin of Malaysia convincingly won the 2024 Asian Dragons U16 with 8.5 points out or 9 rounds. Local bet Chia-Chien Chen of Chinese Taipei grabbed runner-up honors with 6 points. Four players followed in a tie with 5.5 points each, namely Jooyeon Kim of Korea, Silas Nathaniel Chiu of Hong Kong and Da-Xuan Huang and Yi-Cen Liao of Chinese Taipei.
