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Tin Jingyao

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Tin Jingyao
Personal information
Born (2000-07-13) 13 July 2000 (age 26)
Chess career
CountrySingapore
TitleGrandmaster (2022)
FIDE rating2578 (August 2026)
Peak rating2601 (May 2025)

Tin Jingyao (Chinese: 张景尧,[1] born 13 July 2000) is a Singaporean chess grandmaster. He is a five-time winner of the Singapore Chess Championship and has represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad.

In August 2022, Tin was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE[2] and became the youngest player in Singapore to achieve the title.[3] He is also the highest-rated Singaporean player.

Early life and education

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As of October 2022, Tin is currently pursuing a degree in computing at the National University of Singapore.[4]

Chess career

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Tin began playing chess in 2008. In 2010, Tin represented Singapore in the 11th ASEAN Chess Championships (Open U10 category) and won the only gold medal for Singapore.[5]

Tin achieved his first Grandmaster norm in 2015 by winning the Asean Under-20 chess tournament and was directly awarded the title of International Master.[3]

He has won the Singapore Chess Championship five times; in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. He also represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 (5.5/10 on board 4),[6] 2016 (5/10 on board 3),[7] 2022[8] (7/10 on board 1) and 2024.

He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was defeated by Timur Gareyev on tiebreaks in the first round.[9]

Tin achieved his third Grandmaster norm at the Hanoi Grandmaster Chess Tournament in May 2022.[3]

In December 2022, Tin finished second place in the III Elllobregat Open Chess tournament where he defeated Hans Niemann in the seventh round of the tournament.[10][11][12]

In August 2023, Tin caused an upset by defeating super-grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (who was the tournament's ninth seed) in the second round of the 2023 Chess World Cup. Tin advanced to the third round of a Chess World Cup for the first time, where he was defeated by Rasmus Svane.[13][14]

References

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  1. ↑ "墨士廉和陈乐恩为慈善国际象棋交锋 谁胜谁负？". Lianhe Zaobao (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "FIDE Title Applications – 2022 2nd FIDE Council". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Lee, David (29 May 2022). "Chess player set to become Singapore's youngest grandmaster at 21". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Tin Jingyao: Master of the Game". NUS Computing. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Lum, Amos; Urcan, Olimpiu G. (1 July 2010). "Tin Jingyao of Nanyang Primary – Master chess whiz at just age 9". RED SPORTS. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 41st Chess Olympiad, Tromsø 2014, Singapore". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 42nd Chess Olympiad, Baku 2016, Singapore". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 44th Chess Olympiad, Chennai 2022, Singapore". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup-results.fide.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  10. ↑ Chia, Laura (7 December 2022). "Chess: Singaporean Tin Jingyao beats American Hans Niemann in Spanish tournament". The Straits Times. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  11. ↑ Chia, Laura (9 December 2022). "Chess: Beating Niemann, finishing second in Spain event was 'highlight of my year', says S'pore's Tin Jingyao". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  12. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – III Elllobregat Open Chess Grupo A". chess-results.com. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  13. ↑ "Carlsen, Magnus vs. Pantsulaia, Levan - FIDE World Cup 2023". chess24.com. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  14. ↑ Tham, Davina (8 August 2023). "How a risky move helped Singapore chess grandmaster Tin Jingyao to an upset win". CNA. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
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