Qin Kanying (; born 2 February 1974) is a Chinese

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player who holds the FIDE title of

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

. She is a former

Women's World Chess Championship The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, wh ...

runner-up and five-time Chinese women's champion.

Career

Qin Kanying won the Women's

Chinese Chess Championship The Chinese Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of China. Following are the official winners of the national championship from 1957 to date. Winners : Women's Crosstables : Average Elo: 2324 Cat: 3 m = 6. ...

in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2004. She finished sixth at the 1991 Women's Interzonal Tournament in Subotica to qualify for the 1992 Women's Candidates Tournament, held in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

. In this latter event she placed fifth out of nine participants. Qin reached the final of the

Women's World Chess Championship 2000 The Women's World Chess Championship 2000 was a change from previous championship cycle in that, for the first time, it consisted of a 64-player Single-elimination tournament, knock-out tournament which took place from November 27 to December 16, 20 ...

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after she sequentially knocked out Masha Klinova, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant,

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and Alisa Marić. In the final she faced defending champion Xie Jun, who retained her title by winning 2½-1½ in a four-game match. Also in 2000, Qin finished second in the Asian Women's Championship in

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. Qin played on the Chinese team at the

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

in 1990, 1992 and 1994, winning each time the team bronze medal. In the 1992 Olympiad she also won an individual bronze medal thanks to her score of 77,3% (six wins, five draws and no losses) on board three.Qin Kanying
team chess record at Olimpbase.org

Personal life

Qin is

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to chess grandmaster

Peng Xiaomin Peng Xiaomin (; born April 8, 1973) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1997, he became China's 6th Grandmaster. Peng Xiaomin is married to WGM Qin Kanying. Career Peng has been a grandmaster since 1997. In 1998, he became the Chinese Natio ...

, who is also her trainer.

References

External links

Qin Kanying
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Qin, Kanying 1974 births Living people Chess woman grandmasters Chinese female chess players Chess players from Shanghai Chess Olympiad competitors