Peng Zhaoqin ( zh, s=彭肇勤 , p=Péng Zhàoqín; born 8 May 1968 in
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...
,
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
) is a
Chinese-born Dutch
chess
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player. In October 2004, she was the eleventh woman ever to be awarded the
FIDE
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title of
Grandmaster.
She won three times the
Chinese women's chess championship, in 1987, 1990 and 1993. She has resided in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
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
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She was European women's champion ...
at the
European Women's Chess Championship of 2004 in
Dresden
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, and took the silver medal on tiebreak. Thanks to this result, Peng was awarded the title of Grandmaster.
In the 2011 Dutch women's championship, Peng won nine games out of ten, placing a full three points ahead of her closest competitor.
See also
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Chess in China
China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning gold medals at the Chess Olympiad, Olympiad in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2016, 2018; silver medals in 1996, 2010, 2012, and 2014; bronze medals in 1990, 1992, 1994, 2006. The Open team wo ...
References
External links
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Complete Chess match Tea Lanchava vs Peng ZhaoqinThe BDO Chess Tournament 2006— a report by Peng Zhaoqin
1968 births
Living people
Chinese female chess players
Chinese chess players
Dutch female chess players
Dutch chess players
Chess Grandmasters
Female chess grandmasters
Chess Woman Grandmasters
Chinese emigrants to the Netherlands
Chess players from Guangzhou
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century Dutch sportswomen
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