Thai Dai Van Nguyen (born 12 December 2001) is a

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chess Grandmaster of

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descent.

Biography

Thai Dai Van Nguyen's father is a Vietnamese businessman. In 2011, Thai Dai Van Nguyen won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U10 age group. After that, he twice in a row won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group (2012, 2013). In 2016, Thai Dai Van Nguyen was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title two years later. At just 16, Thai Dai Van Nguyen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the Czech Republic. In 2017, he participated in the Budapest International Chess Tournaments ''First Saturday'', where he won twice. He participated in the

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was als ...

s and

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

s in the different age groups. Best result - in 2019, in

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Thai Dai Van Nguyen won the

in the O18 age group. He played in

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, winning in the first round against Ádám Kozák but getting knocked out in the second round after losing against

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