Peng Zhaoqin
Peng Zhaoqin (Chinese: 彭肇勤; pinyin: Péng Zhàoqín; born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player. In October 2004, she was the eleventh woman ever to be awarded the FIDE *le of Grandmaster.
She won three times the Chinese women's chess championship, in 1987, 1990 and 1993. She has resided in the Netherlands since 1996. Peng has won the Dutch women's championship an unprecedented fourteen times, landing her first *le in 1997 and then winning twelve more in an uninterrupted sequence from 2000 to 2011. She tied for first with Alexandra Kosteniuk at the European Women's Chess Championship of 2004 in Dresden, and took the silver medal on tiebreak. Thanks to this result, Peng was awarded the *le 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 compe*or.
See also
- Chess in China
References
External links
Media related to Peng Zhaoqin at Wikimedia Commons
- Peng Zhaoqin rating card at FIDE
- Peng Zhaoqin FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
- Peng Zhaoqin chess games at 365Chess.com
- Peng Zhaoqin player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Complete Chess match Tea Lanchava vs Peng Zhaoqin
- The BDO Chess Tournament 2006 — a report by Peng Zhaoqin