Yuanling Yuan

Yuan Ling Yuan (Chinese袁元凌, Pinyin Yuán Yuánling; * June 3, 1994 in Shanghai) is a Canadian female chess player.

Life

The family moved to Canada when Yuan Yuan Ling was five years old. The chess games she learned from her father. 2003 the family moved from Ottawa to Toronto. In Ottawa, she played for the RA Chess Club. Your chess club in Toronto, the Scarborough Chess Club. She attended the Victoria Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto and studied at Yale University in New Haven ( Connecticut ) since 2012.

Achievements

2003 Yuan Yuan Ling Canadian champion was in the age group U10. In 2007 she won the University Championships as a seventh grader from Toronto and Ontario, in the same year she was junior champion of Toronto. In 2008, she finished in the Pan-American Women's Championship in San Salvador behind the Cuban Approximately Frómeta Castillo to second place. Second, it was also in Kitchener (Ontario) at Zone Tournament 2008.

For the Canadian women's national Yuan Yuan Ling played in the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden on the second board (6.5 points from 10 games) and the Chess Olympiad 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk on top board ( 7.5 points from 11 games ).

Since October 2009, it bears the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). So she was the youngest Canadian woman who ever received this item. The standards for this purpose, it achieved at the Pan American Individual Women's Championship in May 2008 with overachievement and six weeks later at an invitational tournament in Chicago. Your Elo rating is 2254, since February 2014 ( as of March 2014), this is the highest Elo rating that was ever achieved by a Canadian.

Chess in the Library

In June 2009, she founded the program Chess in the Library. This is an organization that promotes volunteer for the chess games in public libraries, where it leads to the possibility of playing chess and generally organized the chess games in libraries. The program 's twenty public libraries in Canada ( Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia) and a library in Washington, DC connected.

Game example

In the eighth round of the Chess Olympiad 2010 Yuan Yuan Ling played with Black against the Norwegian Katrine Tjolsen. In a Königsfianchetto, who passed over in a English opening, managed Yuan Yuan Ling by consistent play to dominate the queenside and then won the game.

1 g2 - g3 e7 - e5 2 c2 - c4 f6 Ng8 - 3 - g2 g7- g6 Lf1 4 Nb1 - c3 Bf8 - g7 5 e2 -e4 c6 Sb8 - 6 Sg1 - e2 d7 - d6 7 0-0 0-0 8 d2 -d3 Nf6 - e8 9 Nc3 -d5 a7 - a5 10 Lc1 -e3 Nc6 -d4 11 Se2xSd4 e5xSd4 12 Be3 c6 - c7 -d2 13 Nd5 - f4 Se8 - c7 14 h2 - h3 f7 - f5 15 Dd1 - e1 f5xe4 16 d3xe4 Sc7 - e6 17 18 b2 -b3 Sf4xSe6 Lc8xSe6 a5 -a4 19 f2 - f4 Qd8 - b6 20 Ta1 -b1 a4xb3 21 a2xb3 Kg8 h8 - 22 K g1 - h2 -a2 Ta8 23 Ld2 - b4 c6 - c5 24 Bb4 -d2 Qb6 - a6 25 De1 - e2 -a3 Da6 26 Tf1 -f3 Rf8 - e8 27 De2 -d3 b7 - b5 28 f4 - f5 Le6xc4 29 b3xLc4 Da3xDd3 30 Tf3xDd3 b5xc4 31 Td3 -f3 f5 - f6 Ta2xLd2 32 Bg7 - h6 33 Tf3 -a3 Bh6 g5 - e4 - e5 34 d6xe5 35 Tb1 - b7 Lg5xf6 36 Ta3 - a7 Re8 - e7 White gave up because the black pawns are unstoppable. 0:1