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Gong Qianyun

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Gong.

Gong Qianyun
CountrySingapore
Born (1985-03-11) 11 March 1985 (age 39)
Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2018)
Peak rating2381 (February 2019)

Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; born 11 March 1985)[1] is a Singaporean chess player and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

Chess career

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Since Gong was seven year old, she started training in a chess academy in Guangdong, China.[2]

2001 to 2009

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Gong finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship.[3]

Gong played on board four on the Chinese women's team — the only women's team present — at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.[4][5][6][7] The following year, she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria with a score of 7/9 points, contributing to China's team gold medal.[8]

After a series of defeat, Gong left the Chinese teams in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong where she taught chess there.[9]

2009 to present

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In 2009, Gong moved to Singapore to work as a chess coach.[10]

She won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012,[11] 2015,[12] 2016,[13] 2017[14] and 2018.[15]

In 2014, Gong transferred to the Singapore Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore.[16] In the same year, she played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 41st Chess Olympiad[17] and earned a norm for the title Woman Grandmaster thanks to a performance rating of 2412.[18]

In June 2018, Gong earned her final WGM norm at the QCD Prof Lim Kok Ann Invitational tournament[19][20] and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE.[21] In December, she tied with Padmini Rout for first place in the Asian Women's Continental Championship in Makati, Philippines, scoring 7/9 points. Gong took the silver medal on tiebreak score.[22]

In 2019, Gong took part in 2019 SEA Games and won the women's rapid chess, beating nine other competitors to win Singapore's first gold medal in chess.[2] The gold was also Singapore's 900th gold medal of the SEA Games.[2]

In 2024, Gong won the Gold medal in the Women's category of 2023-24 Commonwealth Chess Championship held at Malacca, Malaysia.[23]

Gong plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[24]

Personal life

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In 2012, Gong married her husband Tay Shi Hao. She also became a Singaporean citizen in the same year.[2] The couple has two children.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库". Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e Lee, David (3 December 2019). "SEA Games: Gong Qianyun checkmates her rivals to win Singapore's 900th gold". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Chinese National Championship 2001". ChessBase. 18 November 2001. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  4. ^ World Men's Team Chess Championship - Gong Qianyun OlimpBase
  5. ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Russia leads in the World Team Championships
  6. ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - WCTC – China still in the lead
  7. ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - World Team Championships – the Chinese are coming
  8. ^ "World University Championships - Chess" (PDF). FISU. University Sports Magazine. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Singapore chess and The Queen's Gambit: Has the Netflix show raised interest in the game?". CNA. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Gong Qianyun wins Singapore's historic SEA Games gold in chess". The New Paper. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  11. ^ "64th National Championships 2012 - Women". chess-results.com.
  12. ^ "67th National Chess Championship 2015 - Women". chess-results.com.
  13. ^ "68th National Women Championships 2016". chess-results.com.
  14. ^ "69th National Chess Championships 2017 - Women". chess-results.com.
  15. ^ "70th Singapore National Chess Championships 2018 - Women". chess-results.com.
  16. ^ Player transfers in 2014 FIDE. Retrieved 11 December 2015
  17. ^ Men's Chess Olympiads: Gong Qianyun. OlimpBase.
  18. ^ 41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 Open - IM and GM FIDE-Norms. chess-results.com.
  19. ^ Title Applications. 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, July 8-11, Bucharest, ROU.. FIDE.
  20. ^ Tay, Junior (21 July 2018). "Gong Qianyun: "I had to clean toilets if I failed to memorize the classics correctly!"". ChessBase India. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  21. ^ "List of titles approved by the 2018 2nd quarter PB in Bucharest, Romania". FIDE. 12 July 2018.
  22. ^ "Wei, Padmini Wins Asian Continental Championship 2018". FIDE. 19 December 2018.
  23. ^ "Mitrabha Guha convincingly wins Gold at Commonwealth 2023-24, Rohith Silver and Deepan Bronze - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  24. ^ "雅戈尔杯中国国际象棋甲级联赛官方网站". Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
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