Lefong Hua

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

In this Chinese name, the family name is Hua.
Lefong Hua
CountryCanada
Born (1982-03-07) March 7, 1982
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
TitleFIDE Master
FIDE rating2305 (December 2017)
Peak rating2333 (December 2016)
Twitch information
Channel
Followers23,600
Last updated: February 26, 2024

Chess career

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]

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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

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
  1. 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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