Hoang Thanh Trang
Hoàng Thanh Trang ( born April 25, 1980 in Hanoi ) is a Hungarian chess player of Vietnamese origin.
Life
When she was ten years old, her family moved to Budapest. Hoàng Thanh Trang studied economics at the BudapesterEötvös Loránd University.
In 1995 she became Grand Master of the women, 1996, she was awarded the title of International Master of men. In February 1999, she was in Budapest in the Second Grandmaster Group First Saturday tournaments. She made here their first GM norm for men and also holds this title since 2006. It is thus only the twelfth woman in the history of the World Chess Federation FIDE, who won the Men's Grandmaster title.
In 2006, she decided, after playing for ten years for the Vietnamese national team to compete for Hungary. The Hungarian Chess Federation had offered her in 1996, to take this step and now she is the captain of the Hungarian women's national team. Since April 2007, a Vietnamese financial investor tries to convince them to return to play for Vietnam. Her father, Dr. Hoang, opened in spring 2007 in Budapest Chess Hotel, the Chesscom hotel.
Achievements
In 1998, she was in Kozhikode ( Kerala ) U20 World Champion. In January 2000, she won the Asian Women's Championship in Udaipur (Rajasthan) with 9 points from 11 games after the Indian juniors hope Tania Sachdev defeated in the last round in a long game. In 2001, she won by a large margin and a score of 8 out of 9 the zone tournament in Manila for World Cup qualification. In the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled, Slovenia in 2002 she was awarded the bronze medal for their Elo performance of 2598 and posted on the first board for Vietnam 8.5 out of 11 In the case of the Asian Women's Championship in 2003 in Kozhikode was she behind K. Humpy second. With the Vietnamese women's national team, she received on board one at the Asian Team Championships 2003 in Jodhpur the silver medal. At the European Championships in April 2007 in Dresden, she finished fourth and qualified for the 2008 World Championship in Elista, where she was eliminated in the third round against K. Humpy after they had defeated in the second round Monika Socko. In August 2013, it won in Belgrade the 14th European Individual Women's Championship.
Chess club plays in Hungary for Budapest Honvéd. She also plays for the Belarusian club EPAM and the Montenegrin club T-com Podgorica. In Germany, she played for the UPS room.
Your Elo rating is 2467 (as of August 2013), the highest ever Elo rating was 2501 July-October 2009 In October 2000 and April 2006, she was among the top ten of the Elo ranking of women.. She held until June 2006, 64 April-June 2000, record for most evaluated games of all female chess player in a three-month period since the introduction of the top 50 list of FIDE, but was then replaced by Hou Yifan had the 67 Unrated games in a three month period.