Vietnam will participate in the international chess tournament, Olympiad 2010, which will kick off in Khanty Mansiysk , Russia , from September 9 to October 4.

The Vietnamese team will include International Grand Masters Le Quang Liem who triumphed at the Aeroflot Open last month, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Dao Thien Hai.

The International Chess Federation predicts that 1,000 masters, men and women, from 135 countries and territories will join the tournament./.