Thanh Trang Hoang

Hoàng Thanh Trang was born in Hanoi in 1980 and learned chess from her father as a young child. Her family moved to Budapest when she was ten, and she later graduated in economics from Gábor Dénes College. She won the World Girls' Junior Championship in 1998 and the Asian women's championship in 2000. After representing Vietnam at five Olympiads, she began playing for Hungary in 2006. She became a grandmaster in 2007. Her later victories included the 2011 European women's rapid championship and the 2013 European women's classical championship, where she scored an unbeaten 9/11. She also won an individual first-board gold medal at the 2005 European Women's Club Cup.