Chess career
Hua began playing chess at the age of 6, and was coached by Richard Bérubé. [1]
In 1992, Hua finished in 5th place in the World Youth Chess Championship alongside Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, and Étienne Bacrot. [2]
Hua is a 10-time winner of the Quebec Chess Challenge and an 8-time winner of the Canadian Chess Challenge. [1] [3]
In addition to his Twitch channel, LefongHua, [4] Hua is a featured member of the "Chessbrah" chess channel on Twitch, hosted by grandmasters Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton. [5] The tongue-in-cheek chess term "Lefong" or "Lefonged" is named after him, which is a gambit that aims to catch an opponent pre-moving a bishop fianchetto in the opening, typically in games with very short time controls. [6]
"Lefong"
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In online chess with bullet time controls, White could play 2. Bh6?? (pictured) and hope that Black would have pre-moved 2...Bg7??, thus hanging their bishop on g7 and their rook on h8 would also be trapped.