- Zhang Zhong
Infobox Chess player
|playername = Zhang Zhong
|birthname = Zhang Zhong
country = SIN
datebirth = birth date and age|1978|9|5
placebirth =Chongqing ,China
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster (GM)
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2632
(No. 98 on the July 2008 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2667 (July 2001)Zhang Zhong (zh-stp|s=章钟|t=章鍾|p=Zhāng Zhōng; born
September 5 ,1978 inChongqing ) [ [http://www.chessinchina.net/html/CHNrating05.8.htm 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 ] ] is a Chinesechess Grandmaster who now plays forSingapore .In 1998, he became China's 7th Grandmaster.
Personal life
He is married to WGM
Li Ruofan . [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4087 ChessBase.com - Chess News - 4th Dato’ Arthur Tan Open: the “Empire” Strikes Back! ] ] [citation|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4374|title=Ni hao, GM Zhang Zhong and WGM Li Ruofan|periodical=ChessBase News]Career
Among Zhang's more notable results are silver medals at the 1996 and 1998
World Junior Chess Championship s, first in the 2001 Chinese Championship, 8.5/12 at the 2002Chess Olympiad inBled , and first with 11/13 at the Corus B tournament inWijk aan Zee in 2003, three points ahead of his nearest rival. This result qualified him for the prestigious main Wijk aan Zee tournament in 2004, in which he scored 5/13. He won the 2005 Asian Championship to qualify for the FIDE World Cup held that year, where he beat Mikhail Kobalia in the first round but lost toIvan Sokolov in the second round.As of 2007, Zhang almost always opens with 1.e4 when he has White. As Black, he defends against 1.e4 with the Sicilian and the
Ruy Lopez , and against 1. d4 with theNimzo-Indian Defence ,Queen's Indian Defence andDutch Defence (seechess opening for an overview of these openings).References
ee also
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Chess in China External links
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