| Country: | Canada | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 7 March 1982 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||
| Rating: | 2305 (December 2017) | ||||||||
| Peakrating: | 2333 (December 2016) | ||||||||
| Fideid: | 2602253 | ||||||||
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Lefong Hua is a Canadian chess player, coach, and Twitch streamer.
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, Hua is a featured member of the "Chessbrah" chess channel on Twitch, hosted by grandmasters Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton.[4] 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.[5]
Hua is a chess coach and runs a chess club.[6] 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.[7] [8]