Ding Liren

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ding.

Ding Liren
Full name	Ding Liren
Country	China
Born	October 24, 1992 (1992-10-24) (age 19) Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province
Title	Grandmaster (2009)[1]
FIDE rating	2660 (No. 88 in the November 2011 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2665 (May 2011)

Ding Liren (Chinese: 丁立人) is the reigning Chess Champion of China. On 6 June 2009, at the age of 16, he became the youngest ever person to win the national title. In April 2011 he won the Chinese Chess Championship for the second time.^[2] In October 2009, he became China's 30th Grandmaster.^[3]

Career

• 2002 November: U-10 World Youth Championship in Heraklio, joint 1st on 9½/11 points with Eltaj Safarli, 2nd on tiebreak^[4]

• 2004 November: U-12 World Youth Championship in Heraklio, joint 1st on 9½/11 points with Zhao Nan, 2nd on tiebreak^[5]

• 2004 April: Chinese Men's Team Championship in Jinan, scored 1.0/4

• 2005 July: Chinese Individual Championship in Hefei,

• 2007 April: Zonal Tournament 3.5 (China) in Dezhou, scored 6.5/9

• 2007 July: Chinese Men's Championship Individual Group B in Zhuhai, scored 7/10

• 2008 May: Chinese Individual Championship in Beijing, scored 5.5/11 finishing 6th

• 2008 June: Men's Selective Tournament for Olympiad in Ningbo, scored 4/10

• 2008 July: Czech Open 2008 MS U14 U16 - M-silnice Open in Pardubice, scored 5/5

• 2009 April: Men's Zonal Tournamant 3.5 (China) in Beijing, scored 5/11

• 2009 May: 8th Asian Continental Individual Open Championship in Subic Bay Freeport, scored 6.0/11 (first GM norm)

• 2009 May: Chinese Individual Championship in Xinghua, 1st with 8½/11 and 2800+ TPR^[6] (second GM norm)

• 2009 August: Russia - China (men) in Dagomys, scored 2.5/5

• 2009 September: Chinese Chess King in Jinzhou, scored 3.5/7

China Chess League

Ding Liren plays for Zhejiang chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).^[7]

Ranking

• World Rank: 339
• National Rank: 3
• Continent Rank Asia: 37

Rating

Period	Rating	Games
Jan 2004	2230	22
Jul 2004	2231	4
Jan 2005	2270	8
Oct 2005	2289	7
Oct 2007	2395	22
Jul 2008	2439	12
Oct 2008	2446	5
Apr 2009	2458	15
Jul 2009	2530	32
Nov 2009	2566	19

Playing style

• White openings: Queen's Pawn Games
• Black openings: King's Indian Defense, French Defense

Notable games

• Ding Liren - Li Shilong, King's Indian Defense, Chinese National Championship, Round 3, Xinghua, 28 May 2009
• Ding Liren - Wang Hao, Semi-Slav Queen's Gambit, Chinese National Championship, Round 10, Xinghua, 5 June 2009
• Gata Kamsky - Ding Liren, French Defence Steinitz variation, Aeroflot Open, Round 6, Moscow, 13 February 2011

References and further reading

1. ^ http://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=8603677&title=GM&pb=24
2. ^ "2011 Chinese Championship Ding Liren and Zhang Xiaowen win!". ChessBase.com. 2011-04-11. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7140. Retrieved 11 April 2011. 
3. ^ http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4148--titles-approved-at-the-80th-fide-congress-
4. ^ World Youth Chess Championships 2002
5. ^ World Youth Chess Championships 2004
6. ^ Chinese Championship – a pictorial review
7. ^ http://ccl.sports.cn/

• 16-year-old Ding Liren Wins Chinese Ch
• Ding Liren wins the Chinese Chess Championship (Chessdom)
• Ding Liren (16) new Chinese Champion after surreal finish (ChessVibes)
• Chinese Championship – a closer look at Ding Liren (ChessBase)
• The Chess Mind (Dennis Monokroussos)
• Ding Liren champion de Chine! (Europe Echecs)
• Feedback and facts on FIDE's 'zero tolerance' rule
• Chinese Championship – decision by default

External links

• FIDE rating card for Ding Liren
• Ding Liren player profile at ChessGames.com

Profiles and interviews

• http://zhuyue.blog.sohu.com/38398465.html
• http://www.wems.net/View.asp?id=443
• http://www.wems.net/View.asp?id=1269%0D%0A
• http://www.dbt.gov.cn/show.asp?id=360

Preceded by Ni Hua

Chinese Chess Champion 2009

Succeeded by Wang Hao

Persondata
Name	Ding, Liren
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Date of birth	24 October 1992
Place of birth	Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province
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