Li Zhofan ( Chinese trad. 李若 凡 , pinyin : Lǐ Ruòfán ; born April 30, 1978 , Zhenjiang ) - Singaporean , formerly Chinese chess player , grandmaster among women ( 2002 ), international master among men ( 2009 ).
 Li Zhofan | |
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| 李若 凡 | |
| Country |  China  Singapore (since 2007) [1] |
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| Rank | international master ( 2009 ) ---- grandmaster ( 2002 ) among women |
| Actual Rating | 2329 (August 2019 ) |
| Personal card on the FIDE website Personal card on the Chess DB website | |
Biography
From 1993 to 1997, she represented the World Youth Chess Championships in various age groups four times at China, where she showed the best result in 1993 in Bratislava , when she divided 3-4th place in the age group U16. In 2001, she won one of the most significant victories in her chess career, having won in Chennai at the Asian Individual Women's Chess Championship [2] . In 2002, in Ulan Bator, she won the world championship among students [3] , and then in Hyderabad she entered the World Chess Cup, in which she lost to Humpy Koneru in the first round [4] . In 2003, she won first place at the international chess tournament in Kuala Lumpur . In 2006, Wuxi won the Chinese Women's Chess Championship. In 2008, she was the first at the international women's chess round- robin tournament in Jakarta .
Participated in the women's world chess championships :
- In 2001, in Moscow, in the first round, she lost to Anna Zatonskih [5] ;
- In 2012 , in Khanty-Mansiysk, in the first round, she lost to Irina Krush [6] .
She represented Singapore at two chess olympiads (2012, 2016), moreover, in 2012 she performed in the men's team. She represented China at the Asian Women’s Chess Team Championship in 1999 and won the silver medal in the team event [7] .
Married to Chinese grandmaster Zhang Zhong .
Notes
Links
- Li Zhofan's personal card on the FIDE website
- Lee Zhofan's games in the database
- Li Zhofan's personal card on 365chess.com
- Performances by Li Zhofan at Chess Olympiads
- Performances by Li Zhofan at Chess Olympiads