The 2012 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 28 October and 4 November 2012 at the Sichuan International Tennis Center [zh] in Chengdu, China.

[3] It was named as the "first overseas 'major'", as the tournament had the same level of ranking points as the UK Championship.

[2] Judd Trump won the third ranking title of his career by defeating Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final.

[4][5][6] Trump also became the world number one as a result of reaching the final.

[2][9][10][11][12][13] [9][10][11][12][13] These matches took place between 19 and 22 August 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.