Giang Nguyen

Giang Nguyen

Giang Nguyen at the 2013 Labour Day Weekender in Adelaide.
Country  Australia
Born 2 October 1985
Title Woman FIDE Master (WFM) (2012)
FIDE rating 2165 (Aug 2014)
Peak rating 2165 (Apr 2014)[1]
This is a Vietnamese name; The family name is Nguyen.

Giang Thu Nguyen (born Nguyễn Thu Giang on 2 October 1985 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-Australian chess Woman FIDE Master (WFM).[2] She represented Australia in three Chess Olympiads.

Chess career

Nguyen began playing chess at the age of nine. She won the gold medal in Vietnamese Junior Girls Under 13 Championship in 1998, and the silver medal in Vietnamese Junior Girls Under 15 Championship in 1999.

Nguyen first represented Vietnam in the World Rapid Girls Under 14 Championship (Disneyland, Paris) in 1998. Representing Vietnam, she won a gold medal at the Asian Girls Under 14 Championship in 1999, a silver medal at the 2nd Children of Asia International Children Sports Games in 2000, and a silver medal in the ASEAN Girls Under 16 Championship in 2000.

In 2001, Nguyen moved to Adelaide, Australia. She came equal third in the Australian Junior Championship in Sydney in 2002. Since 2008, Nguyen has been playing chess under the Australian flag. She represented Australia in three Chess Olympiads in Dresden 2008, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010, and Istanbul 2012.[3] Her best result was in 2012 when she scored 6/9 and was awarded the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title for her result.[2]

Nguyen is now a lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, having completed her PhD in Mathematics from the University of South Australia (UniSA) in 2009 at the age of 23. She is the youngest PhD graduate of UniSA and the second youngest PhD graduate in South Australia.[4]

She was also responsible for the slogan "I survived Advanced Stochastic Processes 2014" and the limited edition shirts that ensued.

References

  1. ↑ Nguyen Thu, Giang FIDE Rating History, http://www.olimpbase.org
  2. 1 2 Nguyen, Thu Giang FIDE Player Profile, www.fide.com
  3. ↑ Nguyen Thu Giang Chess Olympiad statistics, www.olimpbase.org
  4. ↑ Our young Dr of Maths Alexandra Brown, UniSANews

External links

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