Gong Qianyun Explained

Gong Qianyun
Country:Singapore
Birth Date:11 March 1985
Birth Place:Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
Woman Grandmaster (2018)
Peakrating:2381 (February 2019)

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

Chess career

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

2001 to 2009

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

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. The gold was also Singapore's 900th gold medal of the SEA Games.

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

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 . 3 March 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112145833/http://www.chessinchina.net/html/CHNrating05.8.htm . 12 November 2013 . dead .
  2. News: Lee . David . 3 December 2019 . SEA Games: Gong Qianyun checkmates her rivals to win Singapore's 900th gold . 8 March 2024 . The Straits Times . en . 0585-3923.
  3. Web site: Chinese National Championship 2001. ChessBase. 18 November 2001. 11 December 2015.
  4. http://www.olimpbase.org/playerst/g6m8yumc.html World Men's Team Chess Championship - Gong Qianyun
  5. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2718 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Russia leads in the World Team Championships
  6. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2724 ChessBase.com - Chess News - WCTC – China still in the lead
  7. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2721 ChessBase.com - Chess News - World Team Championships – the Chinese are coming
  8. Web site: World University Championships - Chess. FISU. University Sports Magazine. 11 December 2015. 6 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306081515/http://www.fisu.net/medias/fichiers/mag-69-web.pdf. dead.
  9. Web site: Singapore chess and The Queen's Gambit: Has the Netflix show raised interest in the game?. 20 September 2021. CNA. en.
  10. Web site: 4 December 2019. Gong Qianyun wins Singapore's historic SEA Games gold in chess. 20 September 2021. The New Paper. en.
  11. http://chess-results.com/tnr89348.aspx?lan=1&art=1 "64th National Championships 2012 - Women"
  12. http://chess-results.com/tnr199315.aspx?lan=1&art=1 "67th National Chess Championship 2015 - Women"
  13. http://chess-results.com/tnr253688.aspx?lan=1&art=1 "68th National Women Championships 2016"
  14. http://chess-results.com/tnr317744.aspx?lan=1&art=1 "69th National Chess Championships 2017 - Women"
  15. http://chess-results.com/tnr399872.aspx?lan=1&art=1 "70th Singapore National Chess Championships 2018 - Women"
  16. https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2014 Player transfers in 2014
  17. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/g6m8yumc.html Men's Chess Olympiads: Gong Qianyun
  18. http://chess-results.com/tnr140380.aspx?lan=1&art=62&flag=30&wi=821 41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 Open - IM and GM FIDE-Norms
  19. http://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=8602425&title=WGM&pb=52 Title Applications. 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, July 8-11, Bucharest, ROU.
  20. Web site: Gong Qianyun: "I had to clean toilets if I failed to memorize the classics correctly!". Tay. Junior. 21 July 2018. ChessBase India. 24 April 2019.
  21. http://fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/11028-list-of-titles-approved-by-the-2018-2nd-quarter-pb-in-bucharest-romania.html "List of titles approved by the 2018 2nd quarter PB in Bucharest, Romania"
  22. http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/11328-wei-padmini-wins-asian-continental-championship-2018.html "Wei, Padmini Wins Asian Continental Championship 2018"
  23. Web site: 28 February 2024 . Mitrabha Guha convincingly wins Gold at Commonwealth 2023-24, Rohith Silver and Deepan Bronze - ChessBase India . 7 March 2024 . www.chessbase.in.
  24. Web site: 雅戈尔杯中国国际象棋甲级联赛官方网站 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111028194605/http://ccl.sports.cn/ . 28 October 2011 . 17 December 2009.

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