Zhu Chen

This article deals with the chess player; for the medicin of the same name, see Chen Zhu (medic) .

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

Zhu Chen, 2007
Association	People's Republic of China (until 2006) Qatar (since 2006)
Born	March 16, 1976 Wenzhou
title	Women's Grandmaster (1994) Grandmaster (2001)
world champion	2001 to 2004
Current  Elo rating	2423 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2548 (January 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Zhu Chen ( Chinese  諸宸  /  诸宸 , Pinyin Zhū ​​Chén ; born March 16, 1976 in Wenzhou ) is a Chinese chess grandmaster . She is a former youth world champion, women’s world champion and gold medalist at the women's chess Olympiad .

successes

Zhu, who first studied the Chinese Xiangqi , had her mother teach her the rules of traditional chess when she was seven. In 1988 she won the U12 group at the Girls' World Cup in Timișoara and was the first Chinese woman to win an international competition. She was then sent to Beijing for regular chess training . In 1992 she became the first Chinese women's champion, further titles followed in 1994 and 1996.

In 1994 she won the Junior World Championship for women in Matinhos . She was able to repeat this success in 1996 in Medellín , where her victory with 10 points from 11 games was the best result ever achieved at a Junior World Cup. Five years later (2001) she was awarded the title of Grand Master .

At a world championship of women she took part for the first time in 1995, but failed with 7/13 as 19th in the interzonal tournament of Chișinău . In the second attempt in 2000, she lost in the first round to the American Irina Krush with ½: 1½.

On December 14, 2001, Zhu Chen won the Women's World Championship. In an exciting World Cup final, which went without a single draw and had to be extended twice due to a tie, she defeated the Russian Alexandra Kostenjuk 5: 3. On her way to the title, she previously switched to Elisa Maggiolo (1½: ½), Svetlana Petrenko (1½: ½), Alisa Marić (3: 1), Nino Churzidze (4: 3) and former world champion Maia Tschiburdanidze (2½: ½ ) out. At the next World Cup tournament in 2004, however, due to time constraints and security concerns, she did not play again and therefore lost her title to Antoaneta Stefanowa . At the time of the cancellation, she was also pregnant, which, according to her own statements, was not the main reason for her decision.

Zhu Chen is not only active in women's chess, but also plays successfully in open tournaments. Among other things, she finished second at the Chinese championships in 1997. At the FIDE Grand Prix 2002 in Dubai she beat the then reigning FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomarjow in the first round with 1½: ½.

In June 2004 she was defeated by the Fritz chess program with 0: 2. The competition aroused great media interest in her home country, China.

Despite qualifying, Zhu was unable to take part in the 2006 World Cup in Yekaterinburg because it was banned by the Chinese association. In the official announcement, this step is justified with their participation in an illegal tournament in Qatar . However, the real background is likely to be her announcement that she will adopt her husband's Qatari nationality and play for the desert monarchy at the next Asian Games . This happened at the Turin Chess Olympiad in 2006 when she played on board 3 for Qatar.

In February 2015 she was in third place on the Qatari rating list.

Private

Zhu Chen is married to the Qatari Grand Master Muhammad al-Mudiyahki , whom she first met in Malaysia in 1994 , and studied literature at Beijing's Tsinghua University . In 2002 her autobiography Lay Piece Without Regrets - Waits and Dreams of A Mermaid was published by Nanfang Publishing House.

National team

Zhu Chen took part in eight Chess Olympiads . In 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2000 and 2002 she played for China in the women's competition. She won with the team in 1998, 2000 and 2002, achieved second place in 1996 and third place in 1994. In the individual evaluation, she achieved both the best result on the second board and the best overall performance of all participants in 1996 and 2000, and in 1994 the best result on the reserve board. In the open class she played for Qatar in 2006 , 2010 , 2014 and 2016 . In addition, she won the Asian Women's Team Championship in 1995 and 2003 with China and the Team Championship of the Golf Cooperation Council in 2007 with Qatar . For Qatar she also competed in the women's chess competition of the Pan-Arab Games in 2011, in the chess competitions of the Asian Games in 2006 , in the chess competitions of the Women of the Asian Games 2010 as well as the chess competitions of the Indoor Asian Games 2007 and 2009.

societies

In the Chinese Team Championship, Zhu Chen played for Zhejiang in 2005, 2006, 2008 to 2010 and 2014 , for Qingdao in 2007 , for Shandong in 2012 and for Hubei in 2013 . She won the European Women's Club Cup in 2007 with CE Monte Carlo , and in 2011 she took third place with MIKA Yerevan .

Web links

Commons : Zhu Chen  - Collection of Images

• Playable chess games by Zhu Chen on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at the team championships of the Golf Cooperation Council on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Zhu Chen's results in women's pan-Arab games on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at the Asian Games ( memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on olimpbase.org (English) 
7. ↑ Zhu Chen's Asian Women's Games Results on olimpbase.org
8. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Zhu Chen's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)