Hoang Thanh Trang

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Hoàng. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Thanh Trang.

Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980)^[2] 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.

Hoàng Thanh Trang
Hoàng Thanh Trang in 2023
Country	Vietnam (until 2006)  Hungary (since 2006)[1]
Born	(1980-04-25) 25 April 1980 (age 44) Hanoi, Vietnam
Title	Grandmaster (2007)
Peak rating	2511 (November 2013)

Early life and career

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to Budapest when she was ten years old.^[3] She was taught how to play chess at four and half years old by her father, who is her coach.^[4]

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 Udaipur.^[5] 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%.^[3] The following year she transferred national federations from Vietnam to Hungary.^[1] In 2007, she became Grandmaster; the twelfth woman to reach that rank.

In 2011, she won the European Women's Rapid Championship (Maia Chiburdanidze's Cup) in Kutaisi.^[6][7] 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.^[8]

She has competed at ten Women's Chess Olympiads, five for Vietnam (1994–2002) and five for Hungary (2006–2014).^[9]

Personal life

Thanh Trang bears dual citizenship of Vietnam and Hungary.^[10] She graduated in Economics^[4] from the Gábor Dénes College.^[11]