Hoang Thanh Trang

Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980)[2] is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess grandmaster. She was Asian women's champion in 2000 and European women's champion in 2013. Hoang competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018.

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Hoàng. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Thanh Trang.

Hoàng Thanh Trang
Hoàng Thanh Trang in 2013
Country Vietnam (until 2006)
 Hungary (since 2006) [1]
Born (1980-04-25) 25 April 1980
Hanoi, Vietnam
TitleGrandmaster (2007)
Peak rating2511 (November 2013)

Early life and career

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to Budapest when she was ten years old.[3] She was taught how to play chess at four and half years old by her father, who is her coach.[4]

Thanh Trang played in the 1995 Women's Interzonal Tournament in Chișinău. She won the World Girls U-20 Championship in 1998. In 2000, she won Asian Women's Championship in Udaipur.[5] She won the gold medal as the best player on board 1 at the 2005 European Club Cup for Women in Saint-Vincent, Aosta Valley, with a score of 80.0%.[3] The following year she transferred national federations from Vietnam to Hungary.[1] In 2007, she became Grandmaster; the twelfth woman to reach that rank.

In 2011, she won the European Women's Rapid Championship (Maia Chiburdanidze's Cup) in Kutaisi.[6][7] In 2013 Hoang won the European Women's Championship, winning 7 games and drawing 4, ending up with a score of 9 points from 11 games.[8]

She has competed at ten Women's Chess Olympiads, five for Vietnam (1994–2002) and five for Hungary (2006–2014).[9]

Personal life

Thanh Trang bears dual citizenship of Vietnam and Hungary.[10] She graduated in Economics[4] from the Gábor Dénes College.[11]

References
  1. Player transfers in 2006 FIDE
  2. "GM title application" (jpg). FIDE. 23 August 2006.
  3. "Records and beauties – Saint-Vincent wrap-up". ChessBase. 30 September 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  4. "GM Hoang Thanh Trang – Chasing her dream". Chessdom. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  5. "Xu-Jun lifts crown". The Tribune (Chandigarh). 21 January 2000. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  6. "Viktorija Cmilyte Became The New European Chess Champion In Tbilisi". European Chess Union. Archived from the original on 8 November 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2016. The European Women Rapid Championship'2011 (Maia Chiburdanidze's Cup-2011) was held in Kutaisi, Georgia on 20-21.05.2011. The winner is GM Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary).
  7. European Women Rapid Championship: final ranking after 11 rounds. chess-results.com.
  8. "Hoang Thanh Trang is European Women's Chess Champion". Chessdom. 3 August 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  9. "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Hoang Thanh Trang". OlimpBase. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  10. "Trang comes first at European Chess Champs". VietnamBreakingNews.com. 5 August 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  11. "Nữ kỳ thủ Hung-Việt vô địch cờ vua Châu Âu" [The Hungarian-Vietnamese female chess player wins the European Chess Championship]. RFI (in Vietnamese). 4 August 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2017. English translation.
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