Lim Zhuo Ren is a Malaysian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player.

Chess career

Lim won the 2011 Malaysian Chess Championship, which allowed him to play on the Olympiad team. He was the top scorer for Malaysia in the

40th Chess Olympiad The 40th Chess Olympiad ( tr, 40. Satranç Olimpiyatı), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Ista ...

. In December 2019, Lim earned his third and final IM norm at the

2019 SEA Games The 2019 Southeast Asian Games, officially known as the 30th Southeast Asian Games, or the 30th SEA Games, and commonly known as Philippines 2019, was the 30th edition of the Southeast Asian Games, a biennial regional multi-sport event which ...

held in the Philippines. He now only needs to surpass the 2400 rating mark to earn the IM title. In 2022, Lim represented Malaysia at the

44th Chess Olympiad The 44th Chess Olympiad (also known as the Indian Chess Olympiad), was organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) in Chennai, the state capital of Tamil Nadu, India from 28 July to 9 August 2022. It consisted of open and wo ...

. Lim won the Malaysian Chess Championship for a second time in 2023, which allowed him to play in the

Chess World Cup 2023 The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. It was the 10th edition of the Chess World Cup. The top three finishers in the tournament qualifie ...

. At the event, he was defeated by

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in the first round.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lim, Zhuo Ren Living people 1992 births Malaysian chess players Chess FIDE Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games