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Ni Hua (born May 31, 1983 in
Shanghai
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) is a Chinese chess
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grandmaster and the national team captain. He is three-time national champion. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. In April 2008, Ni Hua and 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 ...
both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating
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The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...
mark, after Wang Yue.
He was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 41st Chess Olympiad
The 41st Chess Olympiad ( no, Den 41. Sjakkolympiade), organised by the FIDE, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took pla ...
.
Career
Ni learned to play chess at six. He won the S.T. Lee Cup for under 14 year-olds in 1996 and 1997 and repeated the performance in a higher age group in 1999. In 2000 he played in his firstOlympiad
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in Istanbul
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, where he scored 5.5/9. In February 2000, he gained his first GM norm
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at the 1st Saturday GM Tournament in Budapest
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with 7/10 score. He achieved his second GM norm at the April 2001 China Team Championship in Suzhou
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with a score of 6.5/10. His third GM norm was achieved at the Tan Chin Nam Cup with a score of 6.5/9 in Qingdao
Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...
in July 2002. In the 2001 China-USA Summit Match, Ni Hua scored notable victories against Dmitry Schneider and Hikaru Nakamura
Christopher Hikaru NakamuraGrandmaster title in February 2003.
In August 2004, Ni won the 1st Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Open in 
In November 2005, the Chinese national team just needed one point to win the championship in the
Nigel Short vs Ni Hua, International Kings Challenge 2003, Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, General (B33), 0-1Ni Hua vs Mikhael Mchedlishvili, World Team Championship 2005, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Saemisch, Capablanca Variation (E29), 1-0Ni Hua vs Peter Svidler, Russia vs China Match 2008, Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (B51), 1-0Ni Hua vs Sergei Tiviakov, Torneo di Capodanno 2008, Scandinavian Defense: Gubinsky-Melts Defense (B01), 1-0
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Kuala Lumpur
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. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004
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It was won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who beat Michael Adams in the final by a score of 4½–3½. He won about US$100,000 and ...
he beat Evgeny Vladimirov
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Career
In 2004, during the 14th Abu Dhabi Chess Fe ...
in round one, but was put out by his compatriot Ye Jiangchuan
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in the second round.
In November 2005, the Chinese national team just needed one point to win the championship in the World Team Chess Championship
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in Beersheba
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, Israel, but Ni Hua's two endgame losses (to Karen Asrian
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of Armenia and Alexander Morozevich
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of Russia) in the final two rounds allowed Russia to clinch victory. Later that month, he competed in the Chess World Cup 2005, where he was knocked out in the first round by Vasilios Kotronias
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.
In the 37th Chess Olympiad
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, Ni scored 5.5/9 on fifth board helping the Chinese team to win the silver medal, China's first medal ever at men's Chess Olympiads.
In September 2006, he finished equal first along with 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 ...
in the World University Championship, but placed second on countback.
Ni won the Chinese Chess Championship
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Winners
:
Women's Crosstables
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consecutively in 2006 and 2007. In December 2007, he won the Prospero Pichay
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Cup in Manila
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with a score of 7.0/9.
In April 2008, Ni competed at the Russian Team Championships in Dagomys
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, Sochi
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for the team ''Economist-SGSEU-1'' (Saratov
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), where he achieved a score of 7.0/11 (+4=6–1) and a performance rating
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of 2735. In June 2008, he became the Chinese National Champion for the third time in a row with 7.5/11 points and a performance of 2666.
In early September 2008, he competed for team ''Mérida Patrimonio'' on board three at the Division 2 – CECLUB Spanish Club Chess Championship. His team mates were Dmitry Jakovenko
Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (russian: Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 28 June 1983) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. Jakovenko was European champion in 2012. He was a member ...
, Pavel Eljanov
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, Zoltán Almási
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Almási has compete ...
, Ibragim Khamrakulov and Miguel Llanes Hurtado. Ni Hua scored 4.0/5 (+3 =2 -0) and his team topped the group. In late September 2008, he competed at the 5th Russia v China Match in Ningbo
Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...
, where he scored 2.5/5 with a performance rating of 2700 for the men's team (with Wang Yue, Wang Hao, 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 ...
, Li Chao).
In January 2009, he won the 51st Reggio Emilia chess tournament
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, becoming the first Chinese player ever to win this event. In 2009, he made appearances at the Canada Open, 4th Kolkata Open, Russia v China match, Chinese National Championships, the Maotai Prince Cup China National Chess King & Queen Championships and the European Club Cup for the champions Economist Saratov.
In April 2010 he won the Asian Chess Championship The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations ( FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.7). It's held with the Swiss system and consists in two divisions, Open and Women's, the latter of which is reserved to f ...
in Subic Bay
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. This achievement earned him the qualification to the Chess World Cup 2011
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, where he was knocked out in the second round by Ruslan Ponomariov
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.
In March 2012, Ni Hua came first in the 2nd HDBank Cup tournament in Ho Chi Minh City
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In the subsequent month, he won the 14th Dubai
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Open scoring 7/9 and edging out on tiebreak Baadur Jobava
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, Mikheil Mchedlishvili
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Chess career
Born in 1979, Mchedlishvili won the Georgian Chess C ...
, Normunds Miezis
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Chess career
He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1991 and 2006. He played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 201 ...
and Sandipan Chanda
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. In June of that year, he tied for first with Bu Xiangzhi in the 3rd Hainan
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Danzhou
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tournament after both scored 6/9, and finished second on tiebreak.
In May 2013, he tied for second place with Bu Xiangzhi in the 4th Hainan Danzhou tournament and finished third on countback. In August 2013, Ni won the 3rd Chinese Rapid Chess Championship in Shenzhen
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.
In July 2014, he won the 22nd Montcada Open.
In the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø
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, he contributed to China's historic victory scoring 6.5/9 on board four and his rating performance of 2723 earned him the individual bronze medal on board four. In November 2014, he helped the Chinese team to win the Scheveningen-style match against the Romania
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n olympic team at the 8th King's Tournament in Mediaș
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.
In January 2015, Ni won the Australian Open
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with 8.5/9, 1.5 points ahead of the field. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2015
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Sergey Karjakin won the competition on tie-breaks after a four-game final ...
, where he was knocked out in the first round by Argentine GM Sandro Mareco
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.
China Chess League
Ni Hua plays for Shanghai chess club in theChina Chess League
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(CCL).
Notable chess games
Nigel Short vs Ni Hua, International Kings Challenge 2003, Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, General (B33), 0-1
See also
*Chess in China
China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 2012, and 2014; the men's team winning gold at the 2014 Olympiad, and the average rating for the country's top ten players second in the FIDE r ...
References
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