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Phạm Trần Gia Phúc

Vietnamese chess player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ108574423 ↗
Source-derived summary

Phạm Trần Gia Phúc is a Vietnamese chess player.

Chess career

Phúc was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and became interested in chess after watching his sister play. Due to his condition, he was rejected by chess clubs, causing his mother to invite a coach to train him at home. Within six months, he competed in a Ho Chi Minh City open tournament and won with a perfect score in the U6 category.

In June 2017, he won the U8 World Youth Rapid Championship, beating Savva Vetokhin on tiebreak scores.

In May 2024, he won the Quảng Ninh Masters Tournament, scoring his second GM norm.

In January 2026, he won the Grandmaster section of the Hanoi Masters Tournament.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Phạm Trần Gia Phúc” is vietnamese chess player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Phạm, Trần and Phúc, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2024, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-08-21. For this dossier, Phạm, Trần and Phúc is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “vietnamese chess player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108574423. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2024 and 2026.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Phạm Trần Gia Phúc” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.