Wang Lei | |
Country: | China |
Birth Date: | 4 February 1975 |
Birth Place: | Shanghai, China |
Woman Grandmaster (1996) | |
Peakrating: | 2512 (October 2001) |
Peakranking: | No. 5 woman (October 2001) |
Fideid: | 8600430 |
Wang Lei (; born February 4, 1975)[1] is a Chinese chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was in the FIDE Top 50 Women rating list from 2000 to 2003.[2] Wang is a four-time Chinese women's champion (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001). In 1996 she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in León, Spain.[3]
Wang competed for the China national chess team four times at the Women's Chess Olympiads (1990, 1996, 1998, 2000) with an overall record of 32 games played (+21, =8, -3), and once at the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship (1999) with an overall record of 4 games played (+3, =0, -1).[4] She was also on the Chinese women's team in the first China - Russia Chess Summit.[5]