Gong Qianyun

Gong Qianyun
Country  China
 Singapore
Born (1985-03-11) 11 March 1985
Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
Title Woman International Master (2006)
Peak rating 2374 (October 2005)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Gong.

Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; 11 born March 1985)[1] is a Chinese-Singaporean chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).

Gong Qianyun plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[2]

She finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship.[3]

Gong Qianyun played fourth board on a slightly weaker Chinese women's team — the only women's team present — at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.[4][5][6][7]

In 2006 she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria with a score of 7/9 points, contributing to China's team gold.[8]

In 2014 Gong Qianyun transferred to the Singaporean Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore.[9] She played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 2014 Chess Olympiad[10] and earned a Woman Grandmaster norm thanks to her rating performance of 2412.[11] Gong Qianyun won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012 and 2015.

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