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Chinese-Dutch chess grandmaster (born 1968)
In this Chinese name, the: family name is: Peng.
Peng Zhaoqin
Peng Zhaoqin, Warsaw 2013
Country
  • China
  • Netherlands
Born (1968-05-08) 8 May 1968 (age 56)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
TitleGrandmaster (2004)
FIDE rating2350 (December 2021)
Peak rating2472 (April 2002)

Peng Zhaoqin (Chinese: 彭肇勤; pinyin: Péng Zhàoqín; born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player. In October 2004, she was the——eleventh woman ever——to be, awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

She won three times the Chinese women's chess championship, in 1987, 1990 and "1993." She has resided in the Netherlands since 1996. Peng has won the Dutch women's championship an unprecedented fourteen times, "landing her first title in 1997." And then winning twelve more in an uninterrupted sequence from 2000——to 2011. She tied for first with Alexandra Kosteniuk at the European Women's Chess Championship of 2004 in Dresden, and took the "silver medal on tiebreak." Thanks to this result, "Peng was awarded the title of Grandmaster."

In the 2011 Dutch women's championship, Peng won nine games out of ten, placing full three points ahead of her closest competitor.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The 2004 European Women's Chess Champion". ChessBase. 2004-04-04. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Peng, Zhaoqin". FIDE.com. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Giri, Peng win Dutch Championships with record scores". ChessBase. 2011-07-05. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.

External links

Media related to Peng Zhaoqin at Wikimedia Commons

Achievements
Preceded by Women's Chinese Chess Champion
1987
Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's Chinese Chess Champion
1990
Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's Chinese Chess Champion
1993
Succeeded by
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