Peng Zhaoqin Explained

Peng Zhaoqin
Birth Date:8 May 1968
Birth Place:Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Grandmaster (2004)
Rating:2350 (December 2021)
Peakrating:2472 (April 2002)
Fideid:1004786

Peng Zhaoqin (; born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player. In October 2004, she was the eleventh woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

She won three times the Chinese women's chess championship, in 1987, 1990 and 1993. She has resided in the Netherlands since 1996. Peng has won the Dutch women's championship an unprecedented fourteen times, landing her first title in 1997 and then winning twelve more in an uninterrupted sequence from 2000 to 2011. She tied for first with Alexandra Kosteniuk at the European Women's Chess Championship of 2004 in Dresden, and took the silver medal on tiebreak.[1] Thanks to this result, Peng was awarded the title of Grandmaster.[2]

In the 2011 Dutch women's championship, Peng won nine games out of ten, placing a full three points ahead of her closest competitor.[3]

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  1. Web site: The 2004 European Women's Chess Champion. ChessBase. 10 November 2015. 2004-04-04.
  2. Web site: Peng, Zhaoqin . . 19 November 2015.
  3. Web site: Giri, Peng win Dutch Championships with record scores. 2011-07-05. ChessBase. 18 October 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131020021048/http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4007344. 20 October 2013.