Chinese-Singaporean chess player
Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; 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.[2] The gold was also Singapore's 900th gold medal of the SEA Games.[2]
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.[2] The couple has two children.[2]
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