Hoang Thanh Trang Explained

Hoàng Thanh Trang
Country: (until 2006)
(since 2006)
Birth Date:25 April 1980
Birth Place:Hanoi, Vietnam
Grandmaster (2007)
Peakrating:2511 (November 2013)
Fideid:12400149

Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980)[1] 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.

Early life and career

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to Budapest when she was ten years old.[2] She was taught how to play chess at four and half years old by her father, who is her coach.[3]

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.[4] 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%.[2] The following year she transferred national federations from Vietnam to Hungary.[5] 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[3] from the Gábor Dénes College.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: GM title application . . FIDE . 23 August 2006.
  2. Web site: Records and beauties – Saint-Vincent wrap-up . ChessBase . 9 October 2015 . 30 September 2005.
  3. Web site: GM Hoang Thanh Trang – Chasing her dream . Chessdom . 9 October 2015 . 15 October 2012 . 26 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140426233549/http://indonesiaopen.chessdom.com/2012/gm-hoang-thanh-trang-chasing-her-dream/ . dead .
  4. News: Xu-Jun lifts crown . . 21 January 2000 . 11 January 2012.
  5. https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2006 Player transfers in 2006
  6. Web site: Viktorija Cmilyte Became The New European Chess Champion In Tbilisi . European Chess Union . 9 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111108081005/http://europechess.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:cmilyte&catid=7:archive&Itemid=20 . 8 November 2011 . 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. http://chess-results.com/tnr50147.aspx?art=1&rd=11&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=1000 European Women Rapid Championship: final ranking after 11 rounds
  8. Web site: Hoang Thanh Trang is European Women's Chess Champion . Chessdom . 9 October 2015 . 3 August 2013.
  9. Web site: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Hoang Thanh Trang . OlimpBase . 24 October 2021.
  10. Web site: Trang comes first at European Chess Champs . VietnamBreakingNews.com . 5 August 2013 . 1 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131022082817/https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2013/08/trang-comes-first-at-european-chess-champs/ . 22 October 2013.
  11. News: Nữ kỳ thủ Hung-Việt vô địch cờ vua Châu Âu . The Hungarian-Vietnamese female chess player wins the European Chess Championship . 2013-08-04 . . 2017-10-31 . vi-VN. English translation.

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