Từ Hoàng Thông
{{short description|Vietnamese chess player}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2019}}
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|country = Vietnam
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|title =Grandmaster (1999)
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Từ Hoàng Thông (born 22 June 1972) is a Vietnamese chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Từ is a six-time national champion.
Early life
Từ Hoàng Thông began studying chess when he was nine years old, at the Children's Cultural House in Ho Chi Minh City, and began playing in youth tournaments the following year. He scored a draw against the Women's World Chess Champion Maya Chiburdanidze while on a Vietnamese - Soviet youth exchange in 1983.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
Chess career
Từ Hoàng Thông first won the Vietnamese Chess Championship in 1986 when he was 14 years old, setting the record as the youngest Vietnamese national chess champion.{{cite web |title=GM Tu Hoang Thong clinches gold at Australia chess champs |url=https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2014/01/gm-tu-hoang-thong-clinches-gold-at-australia-chess-champs/ |date=10 January 2014 |access-date=30 September 2016}} He successfully defended his championship title in 1987 and won again in 1991, 1998, 2000 and 2008.{{cite web |title=Organizations: Vietnam |url=http://www.chessnc.com/organizations/item-106.html |website=E-ChessPedia |publisher=Chess Network Company |date=17 February 2012 |access-date=30 September 2016}}
He won the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Dubai 1991 and Qatar 1992.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}} Từ won the Australian Masters IM tournament in Melbourne in 1995, ahead of Darryl Johansen, and won the Hanoi National Open in 2002.Big Database 2013, ChessBase GmbH{{Better source|date=June 2019}}
Từ Hoàng Thông represented Vietnam in ten consecutive Chess Olympiads from 1990 to 2008. He played for Vietnam also in the Asian Team Chess Championship six times from 1991 to 2005, winning the individual bronze medal in Jodhpur 2003, and the team silver medal in Esfahan 2005.[http://www.olimpbase.org/playersa/aw6egqge.html Asian Team Chess Championship - Từ Hoàng Thông]. OlimpBase. Từ was a member of the Vietnamese team that won the gold medal in the men's rapid chess team event at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games.{{Cite web|url=http://vietnamchess.vn/index.php/vi/tournament-news/189-international/zonal-events/zonalchampionship/1074-seagames23-phi2005|title=Seagames 23 - Philippines 2005|website=vietnamchess.vn|access-date=2019-06-09}}
References
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External links
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- {{365chess.com player|Tu_Hoang_Thong}}
- {{Chessgames player|89106}}
- {{OlimpBase player|aw6egqge}}
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Category:Vietnamese chess players
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:SEA Games gold medalists for Vietnam
Category:SEA Games medalists in chess