Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980) is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian

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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 The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, whe ...

in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Early life and career

Born in

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, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to

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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. She won the World Girls U-20 Championship in 1998. In 2000, she won Asian Women's Championship in

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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, 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

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Championship ( Maia Chiburdanidze's Cup) in

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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 The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

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

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoang, Thanh Trang 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