Gong Qianyun

Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; born 11 March 1985)[1] is a Chinese-Singaporean chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2018.[2]

She finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship.[3] Gong Qianyun won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012,[4] 2015,[5] 2016,[6] 2017[7] and 2018.[8]

Gong Qianyun played on board four on the Chinese women's team — the only women's team present — at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.[9][10][11][12] The following year, she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria with a score of 7/9 points, contributing to China's team gold medal.[13]

In 2014 Gong Qianyun transferred to the Singapore Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore.[14] In the same year, she played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 41st Chess Olympiad[15] and earned a norm for the title Woman Grandmaster thanks to a performance rating of 2412.[16] In June 2018, Gong earned her final WGM norm at the QCD Prof Lim Kok Ann Invitational tournament.[17][18] In December, she tied with Padmini Rout for first place in the Asian Women's Continental Championship in Makati, Philippines, scoring 7/9 points. Gong took the silver medal on tiebreak score.[19]

Gong Qianyun plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[20]