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Thai Dai Van Nguyen
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Thai Dai Van Nguyen[a][b] (born 12 December 2001) is a Czech chess grandmaster.

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Nguyen's father is a Vietnamese businessman.[3]

In 2011, Nguyen won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U10 age group.[4] After that, he twice in a row won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group (2012, 2013).[5][6]

In 2016, Nguyen was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[7] and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title two years later.[8] At just 16, Nguyen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the Czech Republic.[citation needed]

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In 2017, he participated in the Budapest International Chess Tournaments First Saturday, where he won twice.[9][10] He participated in the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in the different age groups. Best result - in 2019, in Bratislava, Nguyen won the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 section.[11]

He played in Chess World Cup 2021, winning in the first round against Ádám Kozák but getting knocked out in the second round after losing against Andrey Esipenko.[citation needed]

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In 2025, Nguyen won the Challengers section of Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025, tied with Azerbaijani grandmaster Aydin Suleymanli for the first place, but clutching the victory on the tiebreaks.[12]

Notes

  1. Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thái Đại Văn
  2. His first names are Thai Dai Van, but he introduces himself as Van.[1][2]

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