Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn


Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn is a Vietnamese chess player. He is the youngest Vietnamese ever to become a Grandmaster, and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game, having qualified for the title at the age of fourteen.

Chess career

Nguyễn learnt to play chess at the age of 3. He won the gold medal at the World Under-10 Championship in 2000.
In 2006 Nguyễn won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in New Delhi, on tiebreak over Shiyam Sundar after they both finished on 7/9 points.
In August 2014, he, Lê Quang Liêm, and other Vietnamese chess players participated in 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. With +7=3-0 result, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son won the gold medal on Board Two thanks to his rating performance of 2843.
He repeats this feat at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. Playing board 2, he again won the gold medal with an identical score of +7=3-0 for 8.5/10 and an Elo rating performance of 2804.

Career highlights

In April 2015, he married compatriot International Master Phạm Lê Thảo Nguyên.