Hoang Thanh Trang
Encyclopedia
Hoang Thanh Trang is a Hungarian
chess
Grandmaster.
Her current FIDE Elo rating
(January 2010) is 2487.
Hoang was born in Hanoi, Vietnam
, and was ten years old when her family moved to Budapest
.
She won the 1998 World Girls Junior (U-20) Championship
.
Hoang won the board 1 gold medal at the 2005 European Chess Club Championship in Saint-Vincent, Italy
, with an 80.0% score.
In 2005 she was studying economy at the Eötvös Loránd University.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Grandmaster.
Her current FIDE Elo rating
Elo rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
(January 2010) is 2487.
Hoang was born in Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
, and was ten years old when her family moved to Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
.
She won the 1998 World Girls Junior (U-20) Championship
World Junior Chess Championship
The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....
.
Hoang won the board 1 gold medal at the 2005 European Chess Club Championship in Saint-Vincent, Italy
Saint-Vincent, Italy
Saint-Vincent is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. Saint-Vincent , is a popular summer holiday resort with mineral springs .-Geography:...
, with an 80.0% score.
In 2005 she was studying economy at the Eötvös Loránd University.
External links
- Saint-Vincent – The Records European Chess Club 2005 at Chessbase.com News