Hoàng Thanh Trang

Hoàng Thanh Trang, Warsaw 2013
Association	Vietnam (until 2006) Hungary (since 2006)
Born	April 25, 1980 Hanoi , Vietnam
title	International Master of Women (1995), Grand Master of Women (1995) International Master (1995) Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating	2407 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2511 (November 2013, January and February 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Hoàng Thanh Trang (born April 25, 1980 in Hanoi ) is a Hungarian chess player of Vietnamese origin.

Life

When she was ten years old, her family moved to Budapest . Hoàng Thanh Trang studied economics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest .

In 1995 she became the Women's Grand Master (WGM), and in 1996 she received the title of International Master (IM). In February 1999 she was second in the Grand Masters group of the First Saturday tournament in Budapest . She achieved her first two GM norms at First Saturday tournaments in December 1999 and February 2000, followed by a third at the 2006 Women's Chess Olympiad in Turin , so that she was named Grand Master (GM) in 2007 . She is only the twelfth woman in the history of the world chess federation FIDE to receive the grandmaster title.

In 2006, after playing for the Vietnamese national team for ten years, she decided to play for Hungary. The Hungarian Chess Federation had already offered her to take this step in 1996, and she is now the captain of the Hungarian women's national team. Since April 2007, a Vietnamese financial investor has been trying to convince her to play for Vietnam again. Your father, Dr. Hoáng, opened a chess hotel , the Chesscom Hotel, in Budapest in spring 2007 .

successes

In 1998 she became the U20 girls' world champion in Kozhikode ( Kerala ) . In January 2000 she won the Asian women's championship in Udaipur ( Rajasthan ) with 9 points from 11 games after defeating the Indian junior hope Tania Sachdev in a long game in the last round . In 2001 she won the women's zone tournament in Manila for the World Championship qualification by a large margin and with a score of 8 out of 9 . At the European Women's Championship in Dresden in April 2007 , she was fourth and qualified for the 2008 Women's Chess Championship in Elista , where she was eliminated in the third round against K. Humpy after she had defeated Monika Soćko in the second round . In August 2013 she won the 14th European Women's Individual Championship in Belgrade .

In October 2000 and April 2006 she was in the top ten of the women's Elo rankings. It held the record for the most rated games of all female chess players in a three-month period since the introduction of the FIDE Top 50 list with 64 from April to June 2000 until June 2006, but was then replaced by Hou Yifan , who had 67 rated games in a three-month period .

Elo development

National team

Hoàng Thanh Trang took part in ten women's chess Olympiads between 1994 and 2014 , five each for Vietnam ( 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2000 and 2002 ) and for Hungary ( 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 ). At the 2002 Chess Olympiad in Bled , she achieved the best individual result on the top board. In addition, she took part in three Asian women's team championships with Vietnam (1995, 1999 and 2003), where she came second in the team competition in 1995 and 2003 and won the individual classification on the top board in 1995, and with Hungary in three women's European team championships ( 2007, 2011 and 2013).

societies

In Hungary, Hoàng Thanh Trang played for Honvéd Budapest until 2012 and for Dunaharaszti Munkás Testedző Kör from 2013 to 2016 . In the 2016/17 season of the highest Hungarian league she played for Lila Futó-Hóbagoly SE , and again for Dunaharaszti Munkás Testedző Kör in the 2018/19 season . She also played in China, first for the team from Nankai University in Tianjin ( 2011 ), then for Wuxi Huafang Construction ( 2012 ). In the German women's league she was registered for the USV Halle in the 1998/99 season , but was not used; from 2013 to 2015 she played for SC Bad Königshofen , with which she won the German women's team championship in 2014 .

At the European Club Cup the women she took in 2005 with the MTK Budapest FC , 2008 with the Belarusian Association EPAM , and 2009 for the Montenegrin club T-com Podgorica part, she reached in 2005 the best score on top board.

Web links

Commons : Hoàng Thanh Trang  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Hoàng Thanh Trang on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chessbase News from September 30, 2005 (English)
2. ^ First Saturday tournaments February 1999 on TeleSchach
3. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
4. ↑ Awarding of titles at the 1st quarter FIDE Presidential Board 2007 in Antalya at FIDE (English)
5. ↑ 14th European Individual Women's Chess Championship on Chess-Results.com (English)
6. ↑ Top WOMEN List Statistics ( Memento from June 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) of FIDE from June 2006 (English)
7. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
8. ↑ Hoàng Thanh Trang's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Hoàng Thanh Trang's results at the Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Hoàng Thanh Trang's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ Hoàng Thanh Trang's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)