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Lefong Hua

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Lefong Hua
CountryCanada
Born (1982-03-07) March 7, 1982 (age 42)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
TitleFIDE Master
FIDE rating2305 (December 2017)
Peak rating2333 (December 2016)
Twitch information
Channel
Followers24,400

Last updated: July 25, 2024

Lefong Hua is a Canadian chess player, coach, and Twitch streamer.

Chess career

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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"
abcdefgh
8
a8 black rook
b8 black knight
c8 black bishop
d8 black queen
e8 black king
f8 black bishop
g8 black knight
h8 black rook
a7 black pawn
b7 black pawn
c7 black pawn
d7 black pawn
e7 black pawn
f7 black pawn
h7 black pawn
g6 black pawn
h6 white bishop
d4 white pawn
a2 white pawn
b2 white pawn
c2 white pawn
e2 white pawn
f2 white pawn
g2 white pawn
h2 white pawn
a1 white rook
b1 white knight
d1 white queen
e1 white king
f1 white bishop
g1 white knight
h1 white rook
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
abcdefgh
In online chess with bullet time controls, White could play Bh6 (pictured) and hope that Black would have pre-moved Bg7, thus hanging their bishop on g7 and their rook on h8 would also be trapped.

Coaching

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Hua is a chess coach and runs a chess club.[7] He has been the captain of the Quebec chess team since 2006, and he has trained many promising Canadian chess players, including Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux and Maili-Jade Ouellet.[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b Jung-Doknjas, Victoria. "An Interview with FIDE Master Lefong Hua by Victoria Jung-Doknjas".
  2. ^ "LEFONG HUA".
  3. ^ "Quebec Chess Challenge Champions (by grade)".
  4. ^ LefongHua - Twitch, retrieved 2024-01-12
  5. ^ Kavutskiy, Kostya (December 13, 2016). "Kostya On Earning His Third (and Final!) IM Norm".
  6. ^ Pinhata, Pedro (August 14, 2023). "10 Chess Moves You Have To Play Before You Die".
  7. ^ "Randy's Rookies: Chess champ makes his move". December 29, 2011.
  8. ^ "30th EDITION CANADIAN CHESS CHALLENGE 2018". June 10, 2018.
  9. ^ "2018 QUEBEC CHESS CHALLENGE BY GRADE". April 26, 2018.
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