Thai Dai Van Nguyen
Thai Dai Van Nguyen[a][b] (born 12 December 2001) is a Czech chess grandmaster. BiographyNguyen's father is a Vietnamese businessman.[3] In 2011, Nguyen won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U10 age group.[4] After that, he twice in a row won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group (2012, 2013).[5][6] In 2016, Nguyen was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[7] and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title two years later.[8] At just 16, Nguyen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the Czech Republic.[citation needed] In 2017, he participated in the Budapest International Chess Tournaments First Saturday, where he won twice.[9][10] He participated in the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in the different age groups. Best result - in 2019, in Bratislava, Nguyen won the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 section.[11] He played in Chess World Cup 2021, winning in the first round against Ádám Kozák but getting knocked out in the second round after losing against Andrey Esipenko.[citation needed] In 2025, Nguyen won the Challengers section of Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025, tied with Azerbaijani grandmaster Aydin Suleymanli for the first place, but clutching the victory on the tiebreaks.[12] Notes
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