Zhao Zong-Yuan

Zhao Zong-Yuan

Infobox chess player


playername = Zhao Zong-Yuan
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birthname = Zhao Zong-Yuan
country = AUS
datebirth = birth date and age|1986|6|26
placebirth = Beijing, China
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster (GM)
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2541
peakrating = 2541 (April 2008)

Zhao Zong-Yuan (born June 26, 1986, [ [http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/NicbaseInfo.aspx?PlayerID=45561 newinchess.com] ] Beijing) is an Australian chess Grandmaster.

Early life

Zhao grew up in Coffs Harbour, Australia, and is now a pharmacy student at the University of Sydney. [ [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12082 Profile] at ChessGames.com.]

Chess career

Zhao became the youngest Australian international master at the age of 14, and was a member of the NSW Junior Chess League. [ [http://www.nswjcl.org.au/Links/links.htm NSWJCL Links ] ]

Zhao won with 8/8 the 1999 Queensland Under-18 Championship and then finishing just half a point behind Darryl Johansen in the Australian Championship proper, finishing with a remarkable 4/4 burst. In 2000, he finished second to Aleksandar Wohl in the Oceania Zonal and in 2001, won the Australian Junior Championship. He played in the 2001 British Championship and scored 6/11. In 2004 he won the Doeberl Cup with 6/7 ahead of Ian Rogers, David Smerdon, Johansen and Gary Lane. In 2005 he won the Australian Junior Masters with a 9/9 score. He has represented his country in three Olympiads and in 2006 was on board three.

In January 2007, Zhao won the Australian Open with 9.5/11 points with a 2673 performance rating. [http://www.actjcl.org.au/ausopen2006/AUSopenRound11.pdf] In May 2007, he came first place at the 2007 Oceania Zonal in Fiji with 7/9 points, ahead of New Zealander Puchen Wang. This enabled him to qualify for the 2007 FIDE World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, [ [http://www.fijichess.com/default2.asp?active_page_id=133 ::FIJI CHESS FEDERATION:: Oceania Zonal 2007 ] ] where he was knocked out in the first round by Magnus Carlsen (0-2). In July 2007, he won the Australian National University Open with a score of 6/7. [ [http://chessexpress.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html chessexpress: July 2007 ] ]

Zhao achieved all three of the required grandmaster (GM) norms over two months in December 2007 and January 2008. Zhao scored 7/9 earning his first GM norm in the First Saturday chess tournament (1-10 December 2007) in Budapest, Hungary. [ [http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/ First Saturday Chess Tournament Series in Budapest, Hungary ] ] [ [http://www.gardinerchess.com/bulletins/2007/gchessbulletin63.htm Gardiner Chess Newsletter No 63 ] ] Zhao earned his second GM norm by convincingly winning with 6.5 points the VII Festival Internacional de Ajedrez GEMA tournament (10th category round robin) which was held from 26 December 2007 until 5 January 2008 in Mondariz Balneario (Pontevedra), Spain. [ [http://ajedrezmarcote.com/2007/7festival_gema/cerradogm/cerrado_gm_2007.php VII Festival Internacional de ajedrez GEMA. Grupo de Empresas Marcote. Mondariz Balneario. Pontevedra. 2007 ] ] In his third attempt, which was unsuccessful, Zhao played in the 33rd Seville Open/XXXIII Abierto Internacional "Ciudad de Sevilla" [ [http://www.fsajedrez.com/ Federación Sevillana de Ajedrez ] ] (5-12 January 2008) Sevilla, Spain finishing with 6.5/9 points (=10th place). In 22-31 January 2008 he managed to achieve his final GM norm at the 2008 Gibtelecom Chess Festival [ [http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/gib2008/index.html Gibraltar Chess Festival ] ] in Gibraltar. Together with achieving a rating over 2500, this means he has qualified for the title of Grandmaster. Zhao is Australia's third grandmaster, after Ian Rogers and Darryl Johansen.

Zhao will play in the 2008 Sydney International Open on 25-29 March. [ [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic697.html#25 The Week in Chess 697 ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.pharm.usyd.edu.au/documents/about/news/hygieiajuly2007.pdf Profile in University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy, Newsletter] (PDF)
*fide|id=3202534
*chessgames player|id=12082
*Chessmetrics [http://db.chessmetrics.com/PL/PL45234.htm Ratings]


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