Zhu Chen (, ; born March 13, 1976) is a Chinese and Qatari chess grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari citizenship and since then has played for

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Biography

In 1988 Zhu became the first Chinese player to win an international chess competition when she won the World Girls Under-12 Championship in

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. She won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 1994 and 1996. When she became Grandmaster in 1999, she was the seventh woman to do so. At the age of 25 she defeated

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of Russia in a tournament for the 2001/2002

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, by 5–3, becoming the ninth champion. Zhu gave up the chance to defend her world title in

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in May 2004 due to a jammed schedule and her pregnancy. In June 2004, Zhu played two games against the

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"Star of Unisplendour", which was an advanced AMD 64 bit 3400+ CPU and 2 GB RAM combined with the

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Fritz 8. She lost both games. Zhu is

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to Qatari Grandmaster Mohammed Al-Modiahki, and now represents

. As of 2010, they have two daughters: Dana (b. 2004) and Hind (b. 2008). She also studied for a

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Performance in competitions

1988.25 July-7 August, World Girls Under 12 Championship. 1st place -

1990.5–19 September, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship "Group B".1st place -

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1991, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship. 2nd place -

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1992. September, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship. 1st place -

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1994.1–26 May, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship. 1st place -

1994. June, Asian Girls Junior Chess Championship. 1st place -

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1994. September, World Girls Junior Chess Championship. 1st place - Matinhos

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1994.1–15 December, The 15th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 3rd place -

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1996.14–27 May, Chinese National Individual Championship. 1st place -

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1996.14 September-2 October，The 16th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 2nd place -

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1996.9–22 November, World Girls Junior Chess Championship. 1st place - Medellin

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1997.15–26 May, Chinese National Men's Individual Championship. 2nd place -

1998 29 September-12 October, The 17th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 1st place -

　 2000.28 November - 12 December, The 18th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 1st place -

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2001.27 November-13 December，World Women's Individual Championship. 1st place -

　 2002. March. FIDE Grand Prix, Zhu was able to claim the win and knock Ruslan Ponomariov out of the tournament. This is possibly the only female player to ever beat the male world champion in any competitive sport. -

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2002, World Women's Olympiad team championship. 1st place -

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2005. March, Accoona Women's World Rapid Chess Championship. 1st place -

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, USA 2006. July, The North Urals Cup. 2nd place - Krasnoturinsk

2006，Asian game Women's Individual. 3rd place -

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2007.July, The North Urals Cup. 1st place - Krasnoturinsk

2007. November, Asian Indoor Games Women's Individual Rapid Championship. 1st place；Asian Indoor Games Women's Individual Blitz Championship. 2nd place -

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2009. November, Asian Indoor Games Women's Individual Rapid Championship. 2nd place -

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2010. November, Guangzhou Asian game Women's Individual. 8th place -

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2011. December, Arab Games Women's Individual Chess Championship. 1st place; Arab Games Women's Individual Rapid Chess Championship. 1st place;Arab Games Women's Individual Blitz Chess Championship. 1st place -

China Chess League

Zhu Chen plays for

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in the China Chess League (CCL).

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Biography

Performance in competitions

China Chess League

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