Ye Rongguang (; born October 3, 1963) is a retired Chinese
chess
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player. In 1990, he became the first ever Chinese chess player to gain the title of
Grandmaster. He was for more than ten years the coach of women's world chess champion
Zhu Chen
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.
Career
Born in
Wenzhou
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,
Zhejiang
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, Ye Rongguang competed at the
1990 Interzonal Tournament in
Manila
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, where he finished in 44th place scoring 6/13 points. In the same year he won the
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
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. He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2545 in January 1991, when he was ranked 97th in the world.
Ye has competed in the
China national chess team in the
Chess Olympiad
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three times (1988–92) (games played 35: +19 −5 =11), and twice at the
World Team Chess Championship
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s (1985–89) (games played 15: +8 −5 =2), winning bronze on 6th board in 1985. Ye also competed twice at the Asian Team Chess Championship (1987, 1991), with an overall record of 13 games (+11 −1 =1). He won an individual bronze medal and an individual gold in 1987 and 1991, respectively.
Personal life
He lives in the
Netherlands
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, and was appointed vice-chairman of the Netherlands Chinese Photographic Society.
References
External links
Official blogYe Rongguang Chess games,
New In Chess NICBase Online
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1963 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Sportspeople from Wenzhou
Chess players from Zhejiang