Chess at the 2019 SEA Games

Chess at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games was the first SEA Games tournament since the 2013 edition in Naypyidaw. Chess will feature seven team events. Among these events are men's and women's blitz, rapid and standard while other categories such as bullet, lightning, armageddon and the Asian chess are also under consideration for inclusion. The National Chess Federation of the Philippines originally planned to host individual events but scrapped such plans.^[1] Chess is being held from 1 to 8 December 2019.^[2]

Chess at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games
Venue	Traveler's Hotel Rialto Function Room
Location	Subic, Zambales, Philippines
Dates	1–8 December
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Three demonstration events were also held in chess.^[3]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Philippines)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indonesia (INA)	2	3	1	6
2	Malaysia (MAS)	1	0	0	1
	Singapore (SGP)	1	0	0	1
	Thailand (THA)	1	0	0	1
5	Vietnam (VIE)	0	2	3	5
6	Myanmar (MYA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's rapid	Yeoh Li Tian  Malaysia	Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn  Vietnam	Nguyễn Anh Khôi  Vietnam
Men's blitz	Susanto Megaranto  Indonesia	Lê Quang Liêm  Vietnam	Lê Tuấn Minh  Vietnam
Men's ASEAN	Uaychai Kongsee  Thailand	Mohamad Ervan  Indonesia	Wynn Zaw Htun  Myanmar
Women's rapid	Gong Qianyun  Singapore	Umi Fisabilillah  Indonesia	Irine Kharisma Sukandar  Indonesia
Women's blitz	Medina Warda Aulia  Indonesia	Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite  Indonesia	Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm  Vietnam

Demonstration events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Online chess[4]	Jan Emmanuel Garcia  Philippines	Lê Tuấn Minh  Vietnam	Muhammad Lutfi Ali  Indonesia
Men's fischer random[5]	Lê Quang Liêm  Vietnam	Nguyễn Anh Khôi  Vietnam	Muhammad Lutfi Ali  Indonesia
Women's fischer random[6]	Irine Kharisma Sukandar  Indonesia	Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm  Vietnam	Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite  Indonesia