Tang Dan (; born 27 January 1990) is a Chinese

xiangqi Xiangqi (; ), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, chess, Western ches ...

grandmaster. In December 2016, she was China's top-ranking female player with ratings of 2525. Hailing from

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

province, she moved to

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

in 2004 to train under Zhang Qiang. She won her first national championships in 2007. In 2010, she won the gold medal at the

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the 1951 Asian Games, first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until ...

. She won the Women's World Championship in 2011, 2013 and 2017.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tang, Dan 1990 births Living people Xiangqi players Xiangqi players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in xiangqi Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Sportspeople from Anhui People from Wuhu