Shen Yang


Shen Yang at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association	China People's Republic People's Republic of China
Born	January 23, 1989 Nanjing
title	Women's Grand Master (2006) International Master (2013)
Current Elo rating	2401 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2479 (September 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Shen Yang (chin. 沈阳; born January 23, 1989 in Nanjing , Jiangsu Province ) is a Chinese chess player .

Life

Shen Yang, 2007

She is studying at Tsinghua University in Beijing .

successes

In 2001 she was U12 girls' world champion in Oropesa del Mar, Spain . In February 2006 she achieved her second IM norm at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow . In October 2006, seeded at number 2, she won the U20 world chess championship for the female youth of the world chess federation FIDE in Yerevan ( Armenia ) in the Tigran Petrosyan chess house, just ahead of the 12-year-old and number 1 seeded Hou Yifan and the Georgian Salome Melia . The win came in the tie-breaker, as four players were tied after the regular games. In June 2009, she won the Chinese Women's Individual Championship in Xinghua .

She has been the Women's Grand Master (WGM) since 2006 , and she met the required standards at the 2004 Chinese Women's Championship in Lanzhou , at a women's zone tournament in Beijing in 2005 and at the 2006 Aeroflot Open in Moscow . In 2013 Shen Yang was named International Master (IM), she met the standards at the Asian Individual Championships 2004 in Cebu and at two tournaments of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009-2011 in Nanjing and Ulaanbaatar .

National team

With the Chinese women's team Shen Yang participated in the Chess Olympiads in 2006 in Turin and 2008 in Dresden in part, being with the team took third place of 2006. She also took part in the 2005 World Team Championships in Beersheba , where she won against the Russian grandmaster Sergei Rublewski , as well as at the Women's World Team Championships in 2007 in Yekaterinburg , in Ningbo in 2009 and in Astana in 2013 . In 2007 and 2009 she won with the team, in 2013 she finished second. Shen Yang also won the Asian Women's Team Championships in 2008, 2012 and 2014 with China, as well as the 2009 Asian Indoor Games chess competition.

societies

In the Russian team championship of the women she plays for Academy Tomsk on the second board in China for Jiangsu , with whom they in 2014 won the championship.