Bristy Mukherjee and Diya Chowdhury clinch three medals at Asian Amateur 2025

by Shahid Ahmed - 03/09/2025

India has won a total of three medals at Asian Amateur Chess Championships 2025. WFM Bristy Mukherjee won the sole Gold medal in Rapid Women event. She scored a perfect 9/9, won the tournament with a round to spare and finished 1.5 points ahead of the rest. She also won a Bronze medal in the Classical Under-2300 Women scoring 5.5/9. Diya Chowdhury earned a Bronze in Under-2000 Women Classical. She scored 6/9. The total prize fund of the tournament was HKD 215700. The top three prizes in Under-2000 and Under-2300 Women were HKD 8000, 6500 and 5000 along with a trophy and medal each. For Rapid Women, the top three prizes were HKD 2000, 1000 and 500 each.

Bristy clinches Gold in Rapid Women with a 100% score, Bronze for Diya and Bristy in U2000 and U2300 Women Classical

It is one of the rare occasion where all medals were won by women. The reigning National Amateur Under-2300 Women 2025 champion, WFM Bristy Mukherjee won Gold in Women Rapid and Under-2300 Women Classical, Diya Chowdhury got Bronze in Women Classical event.

WFM Bristy Mukherjee with all her prizes at Asian Amateur 2025

Classical: U2000 Women - Bronze

Enkhsaikhan Odmaa (MGL, 1853) and WFM Allanney Jia Doroy (PHI, 1938) scored 7/9 each in Under-2000 Women category in Classical format. Enkhsaikhan won Gold as she defeated Allanmey in the seventh round. Allanmey had to settle for Silver. Diya Chowdhury (1917) scored 6/9 to earn Bronze. She suffered two losses and they were against the eventual Gold and Silver medalists.

U2000 Women Bronze - Diya Chowdhury 6/9

U2000 Women Top 3 (L to R): Silver - WFM Allanney Jia Doroy (PHI) 7/9, Gold - Enkhsaikhan Odmaa (MGL) 7/9 and Bronze - Diya Chowdhury 6/9

The top five finishers of Under-2000 Women Classical | Photo: Asian Chess Federation

Diya Chowdhury during one of her games

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	6		Odmaa, Enkhsaikhan	U16	MGL	1853	7	1	3	38,5	33,8
2	2	WFM	Doroy, Allanney Jia		PHI	1938	7	2	4	39	32
3	3		Diya, Chowdhury		IND	1917	6	0	2	43,5	27,5

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U2300 Women - Bronze

WCM Kristina Kim .(KAZ, 2013) scored 6.5/9 to clinch Gold in Under-2300 Women Classical. WFM Xinyu Li (CHN, 2142) secured Silver scoring 6/9. WFM Bristy Mukherjee (2031) got Bronze with a score of 5.5/9. Bristy lost to the eventual Gold medalist, Kristina in Round 2 and defeated the Silver medal winner, Xinyu in Round 6.

U2300 Women Bronze - WFM Bristy Mukherjee 5.5/9

U2300 Women Top 3 (L to R): Silver - WFM Xinyu Li (CHN) 6/9, Gold - WCM Kristina Kim (KAZ) 6.5/9 and Bronze - WFM Bristy Mukherjee 5.5/9 | Photo: Asian Chess Federation

WFM Bristy Mukherjee during one of her games

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	3	WCM	Kim, Kristina	KAZ	2013	6,5	3	39,5	31,8
2	1	WFM	Li, Xinyu	CHN	2142	6	3	38	24
3	2	WFM	Bristy, Mukherjee	IND	2031	5,5	3	40,5	25,5

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Rapid: Women - Gold

WFM Bristy Mukherjee (1857) scored a perfect 9/9 to clinch Gold in Rapid Women event. She won the event with a round to spare and finished a 1.5 points ahead of the rest. WFM Allanney Jia Doroy (PHI, 1912) secured Silver scoring 7.5/9. WFM Xinyu Li (CHN, 2142) got Bronze with a score of 7/9.

Bristy Mukherjeee scored 100%, 9/9 to clinch Gold in Rapid Women event and gained 73.4 Elo rating points

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	10	WFM	Bristy, Mukherjee	IND	1857	9	5	47	51
2	5	WFM	Doroy, Allanney Jia	PHI	1912	7,5	5	50	42,3
3	1	WFM	Li, Xinyu	CHN	2142	7	3	43,5	34

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The tournament hall - TWGHs Tungpo in Kowloon, Hong Kong | Photo: Asian Chess Federation

Links

Tournament Regulations

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