The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 42nd most number of Chess Players behind Iran and Canada.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hoang Thanh Trang (1980 - )
With an HPI of 29.39, Hoang Thanh Trang is the most famous Vietnamese Chess Player. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980) is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess grandmaster. She was Asian women's champion in 2000 and European women's champion in 2013. Hoang competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
2. Lê Quang Liêm (1991 - )
With an HPI of 27.22, Lê Quang Liêm is the 2nd most famous Vietnamese Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm won the Asian Chess Championship in 2019 and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013. He has competed for team Vietnam at the Chess Olympiad since 2006. The best result occurred in 2012, when he scored 8/10 points on board 1 and his team finished in 7th place, the highest ever for Vietnam. Quang Liêm now lives in St. Louis, Missouri and is the head coach for the Webster University Chess Team.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as chess players born between 1980 and 1991. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Hoang Thanh Trang and Lê Quang Liêm.
