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Paul Truong (b. June 1965 South Vietnam) is a professional chess player and organizer, and Fédération Internationale des Échecs Master (FIDE Master or FM) now living in the United States. Truong is an award-winning chess journalist and columnist and he is one of the most well known chess photographers today.

Early chess career

He is an 11-time national chess champion of Vietnam. He currently resides in the United States after fleeing South Vietnam as a boat refugee in April 1979.

USA-based chess career

In August 2003, Truong was named Director of Marketing and Public Relations of the United States Chess Federation (USCF).

In 2003, Truong co-founded the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Program with former Women's World Champion Susan Polgar. In 2004, Truong served as the captain and business manager of the U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team. The team captured one team Silver Medal, one individual Silver Medal and two individual Gold Medals, the first ever Chess Olympiad medals for the United States Women's Chess Team. He is the business manager and chess coach for Susan Polgar.

As of 2006, Truong serves as the Chairperson of the USCF Polgar Committee and he is the Vice President of the Susan Polgar Foundation. He is one of the biggest advocates for Women's Chess and Scholastic Chess in the U.S. He has organized several annual girls tournaments with Susan Polgar, including the Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (awarded $155,000 in prizes, stipends and scholarships in August 2005), the Susan Polgar National Open Championship for Girls (largest national all-girls open tournament in the United States), and the Susan Polgar World Open Championship for Girls.

Truong was one of the organizers the 2005 USA vs Russia Distance Match and several events featuring Susan Polgar, Alexander Onischuk, Boris Gulko and Alexander Stripunsky. He was involved in organizing the Karpov–Polgar Clash of Titans match in 2004, the Karpov–Polgar-Gorbachev Chess for Peace match in 2005, the Guinness World Records Chess Simultaneous Exhibition which earned Grandmaster Susan Polgar 4 World Records on August 1-2, 2005 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and the 2006 NYC Mayor's Cup (Kamsky, Onischuk, Ibragimov, Gulko, Stripunsky, Polgar), the highest rated round robin invitational event in US history.

As of 2006, he is Susan Polgar's business manager.

Chess journalism

Truong has written hundreds of articles for many chess magazines and websites worldwide.

Truong is an avid photographer, and his pictures have been published in many chess books (including 4 covers), many magazines (ELLE, Sports Illustrated, Newsday, Chess Life, School Mates, Chess Life 4 Kids, 64 Magazine, New in Chess, Black and White, etc.), and newspapers and websites. His photo of former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev serving tea to former Women's World Champion Susan Polgar. That made the cover of Chess Life in January 2006.

He has taken and published on the Internet many photos of Judit Polgár with her son, Oliver. Susan is included in some of these photos.

Books

Truong has coauthored several books with Susan Polgar

• Teach Yourself Chess in 24 Hours (2002) ISBN 081293671X
• World Champion's Guide to Chess (2005) 0812936531
• Chess Tactics for Champions (2005) ISBN 1857443810
• Breaking Through (2006) ISBN 0028644085

Truong has authored 8 instructional chess DVDs.

Notes

1. Truong and Nolan Appointed to USCF Management
2. Grandmaster Susan Polgar
3. Judit Polgar Fan Club

External links

• Everyman Chess profile
• Paul Truong rating card at FIDE
• US tournament record
• The Chess Games listing
  • Garry Kasparov vs Paul Truong, New York/London sim 1984, Queen's Indian (E12), 1-0
• Inside Susan Polgar's World Records

• 1965 births
• Living people
• American chess players
• Vietnamese chess players
• Vietnamese Americans