Võ Thị Kim Phụng

Võ Thị Kim Phụng (born 8 June 1993) is a Vietnamese chess player. She won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in 2010[2] and 2013.[3] Võ also won gold medals at the ASEAN Age-Group Championships in the Girls U-12 category in 2004,[4] the Girls U-14 in 2006[5] and 2007,[6] the Girls U-16 in 2009,[7] and the Girls U-20 in 2011,[8] 2012[9] and 2013.[10]

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Võ. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Kim Phụng.
Võ Thị Kim Phụng
Võ at the HDBank Open in 2016
CountryVietnam
Born (1993-06-08) June 8, 1993
Huế, Vietnam[1]
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2017)
Peak rating2425 (January 2018)

In March 2017, she won the Women's Zonal 3.3 Championship to qualify to play in the Women's World Chess Championship.[11] In May, Võ won the Asian Women's Championship in Chengdu, China.[12] As a result of this victory, she was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2018, Võ competed in the Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. She was knocked out by Bela Khotenashvili in the first round after losing by a score of ½–1½.[13]

In team events, Võ has played for Vietnam in the Women's World Team Chess Championship and the Women's Chess Olympiad.

References
  1. "Confidence leads to success in chess". Viet Nam News. 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  2. "Shyamsundar, Phung win Asian junior chess". Sify. Archived from the original on 2014-11-18. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  3. "IM Narayanan Srinath Keeps Asian Junior Title | Chessdom". www.chessdom.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  4. "5th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships". Vietnamese Chess Federation. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  5. "7th ASEAN Age Group chess championships 2006". Vietnamese Chess Federation. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  6. "8th ASEAN+ Age-group chess championships 2007". Vietnamese Chess Federation. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  7. "10th ASEAN+ AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS - STANDARD CHESS - GIRLS 16". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  8. "12th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  9. "13th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships". Chessdom. 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  10. "14th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013". www.chess-results.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  11. "18-year-old Malaysian Wins Zone 3.3 Zonal". www.fide.com. 2017-03-06. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  12. "Asian Continental Rd.7-9: Wang Hao is the Champion". Chess News. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  13. Pereira, Antonio (2018-11-06). "Women's World Ch: Quick play-offs". ChessBase. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


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