Guo Qi (; born January 27, 1995) is a Chinese

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player. She holds the titles of

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(IM) and

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WGM), which

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awarded her in 2014 and 2011 respectively. She won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 2012. This achievement earned her the qualification for the Women's World Championship 2014, which was eventually postponed to 2015. Guo competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 as FIDE president nominee. She was eliminated in the first round by

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. Guo was a member of the Chinese team that won the silver medal in the 2013 Women's

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, Kazakhstan. In 2014, she won both team and individual (on the reserve board) silver medals in the Women's 2014 Chess Olympiad. She took part in the

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, where she was knocked out in the first round by the eventual runner-up,

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. In 2016, Guo won the Chinese women's championship. In the same year, she played on the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the Women's Asian Nations Cup in

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and at the

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. In both events, she also won the gold medal for the best performance on the reserve board.

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