Shen Yang

Infobox Chess player


|playername = Shen Yang
|birthname = Shen Yang
country = CHN
datebirth = birth date and age|1989|01|23
placebirth = Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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placedeath =
title = Woman Grand Master (WGM)
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womensworldchampion =
rating = 2445
(No. 39 on the July 2008 FIDE rating list for women and No. 5 on the July 2008 FIDE rating list for girls)
peakrating = 2468 (October 2006):"For the Chinese city, see Shenyang."Shen Yang (Chinese: 沈 阳; born January 23, 1989 [ [http://www.chessinchina.net/html/CHNrating05.8.htm 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 ] ] in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese Woman Grand Master chess player.

Ranking

Shen, as of July 2008, was ranked 39th in the Top 100 Women, and 5th in the Top 20 Girls in the FIDE ranking lists. [ [http://www.fide.com/ratings/top_files.phtml?id=8603162 Shen Yang] FIDE World Top Chess Player.] She gained the Woman Grandmaster title in 2006.

Career

In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain.

A notable game occurred in the World Team Chess Championship, held in Beersheba, Israel on October-November 2005, where Shen - then rated 2326 - managed to defeat 2652-rated Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2728 WCTC – China loses but retains the lead] CHESSBASE NEWS. 10.11.2005]

In February 2006 she gained her second IM norm in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open.

In the May-June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the Women's section.

In October 2006, she won the Girls World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3432 Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions] CHESSBASE NEWS. 17.10.2006.]

In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3893 China wins Women's Team Championship by two points] CHESSBASE NEWS. 30.05.2007.]

In the Russian Team Championship Shen plays for the women's team of "ACADEMY Tomsk" on Board 2. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsprint.asp?newsid=3837 Tomsk leads in the Russian Team Championships] CHESSBASE NEWS. 06.05.2007.]

In August-September 2008 at the Women's World Chess Championship in Nalchik she was knocked out in the fourth round 0.0-2.0 by Koneru Humpy of India.

In September 2008, she competed at the 5th Russia v China Match in Ningbo where she scored the highest in the women's category with 4.0/5 and had a performance rating of 2706. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4921 Fifth China vs Russia Match in Ningpo] ]

WGM title

In 2006, she gained the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title. She achieved her WGM norms at: [ [http://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidetitles&view=appsdt&cat=2&per=13&aid=8603162] ]

* 2004 China Indiviual Championship (Womens) in Lanzhou, Gansu (November 11-22 2004); score 7.5/11
* World Women's Championship Zonal 3.3 (China) in Beijing (October 20-25 2005); score 5.5/9
* Aeroflot Open 2006 Tournament A2 Group in Moscow (February 8-16 2006); score 5.0/9

ee also

*Chess in China

References

External links

*fide|id=8603162|name=Shen Yang
*chessgames player|id=87959
* [http://www.axa.org.mx/torneocalaveras2007/interviews_yang.html Interview with Shen Yang] 2nd Mixed Chess Match, The Calaveras Fest 2007, Aguascalientes, Mexico.