Zhao Jun (chess player)
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| Full name | Zhao Jun |
| Country | China |
| Born |
December 12, 1986 Jinan, Shandong, China |
| Title | Grandmaster (2004) |
| FIDE rating | 2617 (April 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2621 (February 2015) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 趙駿 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 赵骏 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zhao Jun (simplified Chinese: 赵骏; traditional Chinese: 趙駿; pinyin: Zhào Jùn; born December 12, 1986[1] in Jinan, Shandong) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2004, he became China's 19th Grandmaster at the age of 17.
Zhao plays for the Shandong chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[2][3]
He achieved his first GM norm at the February 2004 Aeroflot Open in Moscow where he scored 5/9 (with a performance rating of 2613). His second norm was achieved at the April 2004 China Men's Team Championship in Jinan where he scored 7/10 (with a performance rating of 2652). His third norm was achieved at the November 2004 World Junior Chess Championship in Cochin where he came third scoring 9½/13 (with a performance rating of 2633).[4]
Playing under the handle CK-324,[5] he earned a spot in the 2006 FIDE Blitz Championship by winning a qualifying tournament on the ICC.[6][7]
He competed in the Chess World Cup 2007, where he knocked out Pendyala Harikrishna in the first round, then he was eliminated from the tournament by losing to Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the second round.
Zhao won the 90th Hastings International Chess Congress in January 2015 with a score of 8/9, a clear point ahead of the field.[8][9]
References
- ↑ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
- ↑ http://ccl.sports.cn/
- ↑ http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews
- ↑
- ↑ Look Up (Finger) Player CK-324
- ↑ ICC Help: BlitzChamps
- ↑ ICC Blitz Championship
- ↑ Priyadarshan Banjan (7 January 2015). "Zhao Jun bulldozes Hastings Chess Congress". ChessBase. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- ↑ Pein, Malcolm (9 January 2015). "Zhao Jun conquers Hastings: Chinese grandmaster wins world's oldest chess congress". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
External links
- Zhao Jun player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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