# Cao Sang

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{{Short description|Vietnamese chess grandmaster (born 1973)}}
{{family name hatnote|Cao|Sang|lang=Vietnamese}}
{{Infobox chess player
| country = [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam) (until 2001; since 2010)<br>[Hungary](/source/Hungary) (2001–2010)
| birth_date = {{Bda|1973|9|6}}
| birth_place = 
| title = [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) (2003)
| peakrating = 2558 (January 2011)
| FideID = 725056
}}
'''Cao Sang''' is a Vietnamese [chess](/source/chess) grandmaster.

==Chess career==
He played for Vietnam in the Chess Olympiads from 1990 to 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.olimpbase.org%2Fplayers%2Fg6wyu2c8.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url|title=Cao Sang}}</ref>

He moved to Hungary in 1995 and was trained alongside [Đào Thiên Hải](/source/%C4%90%C3%A0o_Thi%C3%AAn_H%E1%BA%A3i) and [Hoàng Thanh Trang](/source/Ho%C3%A0ng_Thanh_Trang) under [Levente Lengyel](/source/Levente_Lengyel). He won a First Saturday GM tournament in December 1995 as an untitled player, earning an IM norm.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic66.html|title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 66|first=Mark|last=Crowther|date=January 14, 1996}}</ref> He switched his national federation to Hungary in 2001.

In June 2002, he tied for second place with grandmaster [Zoltan Gyimesi](/source/Zoltan_Gyimesi) in the [Hungarian Chess Championship](/source/Hungarian_Chess_Championship). He was ranked second after tiebreaks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic396.html#6|title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 396 10th June 2002 by Mark Crowther}}</ref>

He was the fourth Vietnamese player to earn the Grandmaster title, having done so in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://e.vnexpress.net/news/sports/vietnam-get-new-chess-grandmaster-4484021.html|title=Vietnam get new chess grandmaster|date=July 5, 2022}}</ref>

He played in the [Chess World Cup 2005](/source/Chess_World_Cup_2005), where he defeated [Andrei Volokitin](/source/Andrei_Volokitin) in the first round but lost to [Xu Jun](/source/Xu_Jun) in the second round.

In 2010, he changed his national federation back to Vietnam.

In March 2022, he tied for first place with four players in the Vietnamese Blitz Chess Championship, but lost the title after tiebreaks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vietnamnet.vn/en/11th-grader-becomes-youngest-champion-in-blitz-chess-819800.html|title=11th grader becomes youngest champion in blitz chess|date=March 7, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{FIDE|725056}}
{{Hungarian chess grandmasters}}
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Category:Vietnamese chess players
Category:Hungarian chess players
Category:Chess Grandmasters
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games

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