Hoang Thanh Trang


Hoàng Thanh Trang is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess 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 in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Early life and career

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to Budapest 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.
Hoang 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 Udaipur. Hoang 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 2011, she won the European Women's Rapid Championship in Kutaisi. 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.

Personal life

Hoang Thanh Trang bears dual citizenship of Vietnam and Hungary. She graduated in Economics from the Gábor Dénes College.