| Ye Rongguang | |
| Country: | China |
| Birth Date: | 3 October 1963[1] |
| Birth Place: | Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Grandmaster (1990) | |
| Rating: | [inactive] |
| Peakrating: | 2545 (January 1991) |
| Fideid: | 8600015 |
| Showflag: | stp |
| First: | t |
| S: | 叶荣光 |
| T: | 葉榮光 |
| P: | Yè Róngguāng |
| W: | Ye Jung-kuang |
| Myr: | Yè Rúnggwāng |
| J: | Jip6 wing4 gwong1 |
| Y: | Yihp wìhng gwōng |
| Ci: | pronounced as /jɪ̀p wɪ̏ŋ kʷɔ́ːŋ/ |
Ye Rongguang (; born October 3, 1963) is a retired Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1990, he became the first ever Chinese chess player to gain the title of Grandmaster.[2] [3] He was for more than ten years the coach of women's world chess champion Zhu Chen.
Born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang,[4] Ye Rongguang competed at the 1990 Interzonal Tournament in Manila, where he finished in 44th place scoring 6/13 points.[5] In the same year he won the Chinese Chess Championship. He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2545 in January 1991, when he was ranked 97th in the world.[6]
Ye has competed in the China national chess team in the Chess Olympiad three times (1988–92) (games played 35: +19 −5 =11),[7] and twice at the World Team Chess Championships (1985–89) (games played 15: +8 −5 =2), winning bronze on 6th board in 1985.[8] Ye also competed twice at the Asian Team Chess Championship (1987, 1991), with an overall record of 13 games (+11 −1 =1). He won an individual bronze medal and an individual gold in 1987 and 1991, respectively.[9]
He lives in the Netherlands, and was appointed vice-chairman of the Netherlands Chinese Photographic Society.[10]