Birth Date: | 26 February 1997 |
Birth Place: | Shanghai, China |
Woman Grandmaster (2015) | |
Peakrating: | 2450 (April 2017) |
Ni Shiqun (; 26 February 1997)[1] is a Chinese chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Born in Shanghai, she finished second to third at the FIDE Zonal 3.5 Championship, a July 2015 qualifier for the Women's World Chess Championship 2017.[2] In October 2015, Ni won the women's division of the inaugural Asian University Chess Championship, which took place in Beijing.[3] In 2016, she also won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Abu Dhabi.[4]
Ni defeated Lilit Mkrtchian, Valentina Gunina and Natalia Pogonina to reach the quarter-finals of the Women's World Championship 2017, where she was beaten by Alexandra Kosteniuk.