Shen Yang (chess player)

Life

She is studying at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Achievements

In 2001, she was in the Spanish Oropesa del Mar U12 World Chess Champion. In February 2006, she reached in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open her second IM norm. In October 2006, she won, placed at number 2, in Yerevan (Armenia ) at the Tigran Petrosyan Chess House, the U-20 World Chess Championship for the female youth of the world chess federation FIDE just before the first 12 years and at number 1 set Hou Yifan and the Georgian Salome Melia. The win was the tie-break, as four players were equal on points on completion of the regular games. In June 2009, she won in Xinghua the Chinese Single Women's Championship.

Particularly noteworthy is their victory against the Russian grandmaster Sergei Rubljowski at the World Team Championship 2005 in Be'er Sheva (Israel). In the first-team Women's World Cup 2007 in Yekaterinburg she became world champion with the Chinese national team. With China, they also won the Asian Team Championship in 2008 in Visakhapatnam, with them. Individual gold medal for her score of 6.5 out of 7 on the third plank received ( Elo performance of 2585 ) The World Team Championship in Ningbo in 2009 they won again.

In the Russian Team Championships, she plays for the women's team of Academy Tomsk on the second board, in China Jiangsu.

She is since 2006 the Grand Master of the ladies ( WGM ) and since 2013 an International Master (IM). Your Elo rating is 2415 (as of January 2013)., The highest ever Elo rating they had 2468 July to December 2006 at the time was ranked 19 of the Women's World Ranking.