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The Hanoi Rapid Chess Championship 2023 ended on November 5. The Hanoi Rapid Chess Championship 2023 organized by the Vietnam Chess Federation coordinates with the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, and the Future Grandmaster Chess Club. This year’s tournament has 2,068 domestic and international players. Among them, there are more than 100 chess clubs in Hanoi as well as more than 20 clubs in provinces, and cities. In particular, the tournament also has the participation of athletes with disabilities, competing with other athletes. The tournament also set a record for the number of table referees participating in running a chess tournament in Vietnam with 70 referees. Notably, before the tournament date, the Organizing Committee still received requests to register. However, to ensure progress and quality, the Organizing Committee cannot accept registrations. At the tournament, players competed for 32 sets of medals from ages U5 to U15 in the movement group, and U7...

Sauer’s photo exhibition “Light and Dark Stars” runs from April 20-May 20 at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi. German photographer Adrian Sauer is one of the international artists joining the first photography biennale in Vietnam – Photo Hanoi’23. Photo: www.elmundo.es Adrian Sauer (Leipzig, 1976) presents a careful and analytical view of the world through a wide range of motifs, including architecture, landscape elements, artificial constructions, and numerous genres ranging from classical photography to computer-generated art. The artist conveys how the elements of photography appear and function and how they present us with an ever-changing image of the world. Sauer’s photographic work entitled “256 Shades of Gray” is one of the artist’s highlights in Hanoi. According to the artist, the work’s title establishes what is to be seen: a series of gray tones which are graduated from dark to light. “Anyone expecting visual opulence from...