Võ Thị Kim Phụng Explained

Country:Vietnam
Birth Date:8 June 1993
Birth Place:Huế, Vietnam[1]
Woman Grandmaster (2017)
Peakrating:2425 (January 2018)

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 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Confidence leads to success in chess . 2017-07-30 . . 2018-01-13.
  2. News: Shyamsundar, Phung win Asian junior chess . https://web.archive.org/web/20141118152345/http://www.sify.com/news/shyamsundar-phung-win-asian-junior-chess-news-national-kgxuudjjfgcsi.html . dead . 2014-11-18 . Sify . 2018-01-13 . en.
  3. Web site: IM Narayanan Srinath Keeps Asian Junior Title Chessdom. www.chessdom.com. en-US. 2018-01-13.
  4. News: 5th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships . Vietnamese Chess Federation . 2018-01-14.
  5. News: 7th ASEAN Age Group chess championships 2006 . Vietnamese Chess Federation . 2018-01-13 . en-gb.
  6. News: 8th ASEAN+ Age-group chess championships 2007 . Vietnamese Chess Federation . 2018-01-13.
  7. Web site: 10th ASEAN+ AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS - STANDARD CHESS - GIRLS 16 . chess-results.com . 2018-01-13.
  8. Web site: 12th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 . chess-results.com . 2018-01-13.
  9. Web site: 13th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships . 2012-06-23 . Chessdom . 2018-01-13.
  10. Web site: 14th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 . www.chess-results.com . 2018-01-13.
  11. Web site: 18-year-old Malaysian Wins Zone 3.3 Zonal . 2017-03-06 . www.fide.com . 2018-01-14.
  12. News: Asian Continental Rd.7-9: Wang Hao is the Champion . 2017-05-24 . Chess News . 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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