Ruan Lufei

Ruan Lufei (Ch阮露斐; born October 2, 1987 in Nanjing) is a Chinese chess player.

Life

Ruan Lufei completed a degree in Accountancy at Beijing's Tsinghua University. Since 2010 she has for doctoral studies in Accounting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She was trained by Xu Jun.

Achievements

For the Women's World Cup in 2006 she qualified as a Chinese zone tournament. She dropped in the second round against Viktorija Cmilyte with 2:4 from after she had turned in the first round Lilit Mkrttschjan with 2.5:1.5. In the Asian woman Individual Championship 2007, she was tied second behind Tania Sachdev. In April 2009, she won a zone tournament in Beijing. Her biggest success was her second place finish at the Women's World Cup in December 2010 in the Turkish Antakya. After the knockout system Camilla Baginskaite ( 2.5:1.5 ), Zhang Xiaowen ( 3-1 ), the reigning at this time world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk ( 2.5:1.5 ), Dronavalli Harika ( 2.5:1.5 ) and Zhao Xue ( 2.5:1.5 ) was turned off, she lost in the final against Hou Yifan after tie-break 5-3. She scored a grandmaster norm in Antakya.

On the third board of the Chinese national team, she won the Women's World Cup 2007, but they additionally a silver medal for her score of 6 points from 7 games won ( Elo performance of 2625 ). Chess club plays in China for the team of Jiangsu.

Since November 2007 she is entitled Woman Grandmaster ( WGM ). The standards for this they achieved with the Chinese team championship of women in 2004, the zone tournament in Beijing in 2005 and the Russian Team Championship Women 2007, where she participated in the third board of the Academy team Tomsk. Your current and previous highest Elo rating of 2503 (January 2014), so it is Fourth of Chinese woman and ranking in 17th place of the women's world rankings. Your best world ranking was 11 th place in January 2008.