Huang Qian (; born July 18, 1986) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Chinese Women's Chess Championship in 2012 and the Asian Women's Chess Championship in 2013. Huang competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in

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Career

Huang was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2004 Women's Chess Olympiad in Calvià. In 2007, along with Zhao Xue, Hou Yifan,

Ruan Lufei Ruan Lufei (; born October 2, 1987) is a Chinese chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Women's World Championship runner-up in 2010. Career Ruan's natural talent for the game, hard work, and co-operation with her coach, ...

and Shen Yang, she also won with the Chinese team the first Women's

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in Yekaterinburg. She scored of 4/4 (despite this 100% result she did not win reserve board prize due to the limited number of games played). Huang was awarded the Woman Grandmaster title in March 2008. Her three

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s required for the title were achieved at: *

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(Women) in Calvià, Spain October 14–31, 2004; score 7.5/10 * China Women's Individual Championship Group A in

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, China June 6–19, 2007; score 6.5/10 * 12th Asian Women Individual Championship in Tehran, Iran September 3–11, 2007; score 5.5/9 In 2013, she won the Zhonghai Huashan Cup for Women Stars, a rapidplay women's

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held in Huayin, on tiebreak over

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with a score of 4½/7, half point ahead of

Tatiana Kosintseva Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Kosintseva is a two-time European women's c ...

and Women's World Champion Anna Ushenina. Huang Qian played in the Women World Rapid Championship in Riyadh 2017 and realised her best results with the black pieces (2 wins, 2 draws). In 2019, she won the Yinzhou Cup in Ningbo, China for women. Huang Qian plays for China Mobile Group

Company Ltd

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in the

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(CCL).

Personal life

Huang Qian is married to chess grandmaster

Bu Xiangzhi Bu Xiangzhi (; born December 10, 1985) is a Chinese chess player. In 1999, he became the 10th grandmaster from China at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua bec ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Qian 1986 births Living people Chess woman grandmasters Chinese female chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Asian Games medalists in chess Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Universiade medalists in chess Chess players from Chongqing Universiade bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade