Đầu Khương Duy

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Đầu. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Khương Duy.

Đầu Khương Duy

Personal information
Born	(2011-07-20) July 20, 2011 Thái Nguyên, Vietnam
Chess career
Country	Vietnam
Title	International Master (2024)
FIDE rating	2509 (September 2026)
Peak rating	2528 (July 2026)

Đầu Khương Duy is a Vietnamese chess player.

Chess career

He began playing chess at the age of 7, and won the bronze medal in the U8 section of the World Youth Chess Championship just one year later.

In October 2022, he achieved the International Master title after scoring 6/8 in the Bangkok Open, becoming the youngest Vietnamese player to earn the IM title. He drew against grandmasters Novendra Priasmoro, David Smerdon, and Gerhard Schebler and defeated higher-rated IMs Junta Ikeda and Ricardo de Guzman.

In 2023, he won the U12 section of the World Youth Chess Championship.

In December 2025 at the World Blitz Chess Championship, he defeated eight grandmasters (Denis Lazavik, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Pablo Salinas Herrera, Pouya Idani, Jakub Kosakowski, José Martínez Alcántara, Cristobal Henriquez Villagra, Giga Quparadze, and Mahammad Muradli), finishing with a score of 11/19.