Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980) is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian
chess
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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
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Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, wher ...
in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Early life and career
Born in
Hanoi
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, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to
Budapest
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when she was ten years old.
She was taught how to play chess at four and half years old by her father, who is her coach.
Thanh Trang played in the
1995 Women's Interzonal Tournament in
Chișinău
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. She won the
World Girls U-20 Championship in 1998. In 2000, she won
Asian Women's Championship in
Udaipur
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. 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
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, with a score of 80.0%.
The following year she
transferred national federations from Vietnam to Hungary. In 2007, she became
Grandmaster; the twelfth woman to reach that rank.
In 2011, she won the European Women's
Rapid Championship (
Maia Chiburdanidze
Maia Chiburdanidze ( ka, მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2 ...
's Cup) in
Kutaisi
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. 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.
She has competed at ten
Women's Chess Olympiad
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s, five for Vietnam (1994–2002) and five for Hungary (2006–2014).
Personal life
Thanh Trang bears dual citizenship of Vietnam and Hungary. She graduated in Economics
[ from the Gábor Dénes College.][English translation]
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1980 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Female chess grandmasters
Chess woman grandmasters
World Junior Chess Champions
European Chess Champions
Hungarian chess players
Vietnamese chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
People from Hanoi
Vietnamese emigrants to Hungary