Võ Thị Kim Phụng
Võ at the HDBank Open in 2016
CountryVietnam
Born (1993-06-08) June 8, 1993
Huế, Vietnam[1]
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2017)
Peak rating2425 (January 2018)

Võ Thị Kim Phụng (born 8 June 1993) is a Vietnamese chess player. She won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in 2010[2] and 2013.[3] Võ also won gold medals at the ASEAN Age-Group Championships in the Girls U-12 category in 2004,[4] the Girls U-14 in 2006[5] and 2007,[6] the Girls U-16 in 2009,[7] and the Girls U-20 in 2011,[8] 2012[9] and 2013.[10]

In March 2017, she won the Women's Zonal 3.3 Championship to qualify to play in the Women's World Chess Championship.[11] In May, Võ won the Asian Women's Championship in Chengdu, China.[12] As a result of this victory, she was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2018, Võ competed in the Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. She was knocked out by Bela Khotenashvili in the first round after losing by a score of ½–1½.[13]

In team events, Võ has played for Vietnam in the Women's World Team Chess Championship and the Women's Chess Olympiad.

References

  1. ↑ "Confidence leads to success in chess". Viet Nam News. 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Shyamsundar, Phung win Asian junior chess". Sify. Archived from the original on 2014-11-18. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  3. ↑ "IM Narayanan Srinath Keeps Asian Junior Title | Chessdom". www.chessdom.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  4. ↑ "5th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships". Vietnamese Chess Federation. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  5. ↑ "7th ASEAN Age Group chess championships 2006". Vietnamese Chess Federation. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  6. ↑ "8th ASEAN+ Age-group chess championships 2007". Vietnamese Chess Federation. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  7. ↑ "10th ASEAN+ AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS - STANDARD CHESS - GIRLS 16". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  8. ↑ "12th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  9. ↑ "13th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships". Chessdom. 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  10. ↑ "14th ASEAN+ AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013". www.chess-results.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  11. ↑ "18-year-old Malaysian Wins Zone 3.3 Zonal". www.fide.com. 2017-03-06. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  12. ↑ "Asian Continental Rd.7-9: Wang Hao is the Champion". Chess News. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  13. ↑ Pereira, Antonio (2018-11-06). "Women's World Ch: Quick play-offs". ChessBase. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


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