Ma Qun (, born November 9, 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by

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in 2013. Ma played for the gold medal-winning Chinese team in the

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2014 in Tabriz, Iran and also earned the individual gold medal on board 4 thanks to a score of 7/7 points, namely winning all seven games he played. Ma Qun tied for first place at the 89th Hastings International Chess Congress in January 2014 with

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(the eventual winner on tiebreak score), Igor Khenkin,

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, Justin Sarkar, and Jovica Radovanovic, placing third on countback. In 2015 he won the silver medal at the 1st Asian University Chess Championship in Beijing. In January 2016, he shared second place with Ju Wenjun and Nigel Short in the New Zealand Open, which took place in

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. Later in the same year, Ma won the International Open of Sants, Hostafrancs and La Bordeta in Barcelona, after playoffs. In 2019, he won the Chinese Rapid Championship.

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Ma Qun
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