Tan Zhongyi

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Tan is the family name here, Zhongyi is the first name.

Tan Zhongyi (2016 in Baku)
Association	People's Republic of China
Born	May 29, 1991 Chongqing
title	Grandmaster of Women (2009) Grandmaster (2017)
world champion	2017-2018
Current  Elo rating	2510 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating	2530 (August 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Tan Zhongyi ( Chinese  谭中怡 , Pinyin Tán Zhōngyí ; born May 29, 1991 in Chongqing ) is a Chinese chess player who has held the women's grandmaster title (WGM) since 2009 . She was world chess champion from March 3, 2017 to May 18, 2018 .

successes

Tan Zhongyi enjoyed her first successes as a chess player at a young age. In 2000 and 2001, both in Oropesa del Mar , Spain , she was world youth champion in the U10 age group. In 2002 she repeated this success in Heraklion in the U12 age group.

At the 2008 Women's World Chess Championship in Nalchik , the then seventeen-year-old defeated Indian Tania Sachdev in the first round , but failed in the second round against Swede Pia Cramling , who was seeded at number 5.

Since October 2009 she has held the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM). She had exceeded all the norms for this: in September 2007 at the women's zone tournament in Tianjin , in June 2009 at the Chinese women's championship in Xinghua and in September 2009 at the women's team championship in Ningbo , where she was on the first board of the 2nd Chinese team played and received an individual gold medal.

In 2011 she won at the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen , the chess tournament of women and also contributed to the gold medal of the Chinese team. A year later she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Guimarães, Portugal . At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan , she again won the gold medal with the Chinese team, as well as an individual bronze medal.

In May 2015, she became the Chinese women's chess champion in Xinghua. Shortly after she failed at in Sochi discharged Women's World Chess Championship 2015 in the second round of Lela Javakhishvili . In August of the same year she won the Asian rapid championship for women in al-Ain .

At the Chess Olympiad , the most important team competition in chess, she won the gold medal with the Chinese women's team in Baku in 2016 .

Tan Zhongyi was one of the 64 participants in the 2017 Women's World Chess Championship in Tehran . Set at number 9, she defeated the American Sabina-Francesca Foişor , the former Ukrainian world champion Anna Uschenina , the Indian Rout Padmini and in the quarter-finals her compatriot Ju Wenjun , who was number 1 . After a narrow semi-final victory over D. Harika , she reached the final against the Ukrainian Anna Musytschuk and won the world championship with 3.5: 2.5 points.

Through this success she automatically achieved the general grandmaster title (GM) according to the FIDE regulations.

At the 2018 women's chess world championship in Shanghai and Chongqing, she lost the world title in a duel against her compatriot Ju Wenjun with 4.5: 5.5. Tan Zhongyi has played for Chongqing in the Chinese team championship since 2005 .

Web links

Commons : Tan Zhongyi  - Collection of Images

• Tan Zhongyi on 365Chess.com (English)
• Replayable chess games by Tan Zhongyi on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WGM application (English)
2. ^ André Schulz : Women's World Cup: Tan Zhongyi is world champion In: de.chessbase.com. March 3, 2017, accessed August 20, 2019.
3. ↑ Table for Direct Titles effective from July 1, 2017. In: FIDE Handbook. FIDE, accessed on May 15, 2018 .