Peng Zhaoqin
 Peng Zhaoqin, Warsaw 2013 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | 8 May 1968 |
| Chess career | |
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| Title | Grandmaster (2004) |
| FIDE rating | 2350 (December 2021) |
| Peak rating | 2472 (April 2002) |
Peng Zhaoqin (Chinese: 彭肇勤; pinyin: Péng Zhàoqín; 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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "The 2004 European Women's Chess Champion". ChessBase. 2004-04-04. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ↑ "Peng, Zhaoqin". FIDE.com. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ "Giri, Peng win Dutch Championships with record scores". ChessBase. 2011-07-05. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
External links
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Media related to Peng Zhaoqin at Wikimedia Commons
- Peng Zhaoqin rating card at FIDE
- Peng Zhaoqin FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
- Peng Zhaoqin chess games at 365Chess.com
- Peng Zhaoqin player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Complete Chess match Tea Lanchava vs Peng Zhaoqin
- The BDO Chess Tournament 2006 — a report by Peng Zhaoqin
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