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Võ Thị Kim Phụng
Vietnamese chess player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Võ Thị Kim Phụng (born 8 June 1993) is a Vietnamese chess player. She won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in 2010[2] and 2013.[3] Võ also won gold medals at the ASEAN Age-Group Championships in the Girls U-12 category in 2004,[4] the Girls U-14 in 2006[5] and 2007,[6] the Girls U-16 in 2009,[7] and the Girls U-20 in 2011,[8] 2012[9] and 2013.[10]
In March 2017, she won the Women's Zonal 3.3 Championship to qualify to play in the Women's World Chess Championship.[11] In May, Võ won the Asian Women's Championship in Chengdu, China.[12] As a result of this victory, she was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2018, Võ competed in the Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. She was knocked out by Bela Khotenashvili in the first round after losing by a score of ½–1½.[13]
In team events, Võ has played for Vietnam in the Women's World Team Chess Championship and the Women's Chess Olympiad.
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