At the 2022 World Youth Chess Championship, contestant Nguyen Hong Nhung, a member of the Vietnamese team, competed with 87 players from many different continents in the female category.
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| Vietnamese contestant Nguyen Hong Nhung (second place) at the award ceremony (Photo: hanoi.edu.vn). |
After 11 matches, Nhung won a total of 8.5 points, winning the Silver medal for the Vietnamese team. Nhung was equal in points with the champion but received a Silver Medal because of lower sub-stats.
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| Hong Nhung placed second in the final ranking, tied for first in points with Munkhzul Davaakhuu (Mongolia) and Machteld Van Foreest (The Netherlands) (Photo: Vietnamnet). |
Towards the end of the tournament, the Vietnamese chess player gave an impressive performance, earning the first medal for Vietnam in the past 5 years at the World Youth Chess Championship.
In the 9th game, Hong Nhung won against the "second seed" of the tournament despite holding the black piece and was 452 Elo behind her Kazastan opponent.
In the 10th game, Hong Nhung held the black piece again and beat her Mongolian opponent - who then won the tournament.
In the last game, there are 3 players on this chart with 8.5 points, Munkhzul Davaakhuu (Mongolia), Hong Nhung (Vietnam) and Van Foreest Machteld (Netherlands). To determine the medal, the organizers must rely on the sub-index.
The first sub-stat to be considered is confrontation. In this sub-index, the Vietnamese chess player defeated the champion Munkhzul Davaakhuu. But according to the rules of the tournament, this index is only calculated when the players with the same points have all met at the tournament. Munkhzul Davaakhuu lost to Hong Nhung and drew with Forest.
Therefore, the second sub-index considered for medal awarding is the Buchholz-1 coefficient (sum of the scores of the opponents met, minus the score of the lowest competitor). The Mongolian player has the highest coefficient, hence she won the Gold Medal, while Nhung won the Silver Medal.
At the end of the tournament, Hong Nhung added 174 Elo, increasing from 1,850 Elo to 2,024 Elo. With this result, Hong Nhung automatically earned the title of WFM - Female Chess Grandmaster of the World Chess Federation and achieved 1/3 of the WIM standard - International Female Grandmaster.
The medalist is an 11th grader from Hanoi - Amsterdam High School. Previously, she had earned 1 Gold medal at the Women's U16 World Championship in the 2021 World Youth Chess Cup, a U16 Silver medal in the World Youth Chess Super Cup and about 10 national medals at the youth tournament. Nhung also won the Bronze Medal at the 2021 National Rapid Chess Championship.
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