Thai Dai Van Nguyen (born 12 December 2001) is a Czech

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Biography

Nguyen's father is a Vietnamese businessman. In 2011, Nguyen won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U10 age group. After that, he twice in a row won the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group (2012, 2013). In 2016, Nguyen was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title two years later. At just 16, Nguyen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the Czech Republic. In 2017, he participated in the Budapest International Chess Tournaments ''First Saturday'', where he won twice. He participated in the

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s and

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s in the different age groups. Best result - in 2019, in

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, Nguyen won the

in the U18 section. He played in

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, winning in the first round against Ádám Kozák but getting knocked out in the second round after losing against

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. In 2025, Nguyen won the Challengers section of

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, tied with Azerbaijani grandmaster

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for the first place, but clutching the victory on the tiebreaks.

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Thai Dai Van Nguyen
chess games at 365chess.com 2001 births Living people Chess players from Prague Czech chess players Czech people of Vietnamese descent Chess Grandmasters Sportspeople of Vietnamese descent Chess Olympiad competitors {{CzechRepublic-chess-bio-stub