| Thai Dai Van Nguyen | |
|---|---|
 Thai Dai Van Nguyen in 2023 | |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Born | 12 December 2001 Prague, Czech Republic |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2670 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2673 (December 2024) |
| Ranking | No. 59 (November 2024) |
| Peak ranking | No. 53 (December 2024) |
Thai Dai Van Nguyen [a] (born 12 December 2001) is a Czech chess grandmaster.
Nguyen'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.
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 O18 age group. [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.
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