Peng Xiaomin (; born April 8, 1973) is a
Chinese
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chess
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grandmaster. In 1997, he became
China
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's
6th Grandmaster. Peng Xiaomin is married to
WGM Qin Kanying
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Career
Qin Kanying won the Women's ...
.
Career
Peng has been a grandmaster since 1997. In 1998, he became the
Chinese National Chess Champion.
He played for the
China national Olympiad team for 1994-2000.
Peng competed in the
FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 in
New Delhi
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, where he reached the third round having been beaten by
Peter Svidler
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and an eight-time Russian Chess Champion who now frequently commenta ...
2.5-1.5.
Peng was a World Top 100 Chess Player according to the
FIDE
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ratings from July 2000 to October 2002, while also at the same time was the third ranked Chinese player.
Although today he is still officially in the Top 10 in China, he has limited his activities to playing for and coaching his club team in the domestic Chinese chess league.
Recently, he has moved to Canada with his wife and son. He is teaching Kelly Wang, Qiuyu Huang, Robert Liu, Zhong Wen Xuan, and other young Canadians.
China Chess League
Peng Xiaomin plays for
Hebei
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chess club
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in the
China Chess League
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(CCL).
See also
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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 ra ...
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peng, Xiaomin
1973 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess players from Hebei
Sportspeople from Handan