Zhu Chen biography
Zhu Chen, (born March 16, 1976, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China), Chinese chess participant who was the ladies’s world champion (2001–04).
In 1988 Zhu grew to become the primary Chinese to win a global chess championship, the lady’s under-12 part of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) World Youth Chess Festival for Peace, held in Timişoara, Romania. (The boy’s under-12 part was additionally received by a woman, Judit Polgár of Hungary.) Zhu additionally received the lady’s part of the FIDE World Junior Chess Championship, restricted to gamers below 20 on January 1 of the enjoying 12 months, in 1994, held in Caiobá, Brazil, and in 1996, held in Medellín, Colombia.
Zhu’s compatriot Xie Jun was the primary Chinese to grow to be the ladies’s world chess champion when she defeated Maya Chiburdanidze of Georgia in 1991. For quite a lot of causes, FIDE quickly started having hassle financing world championship matches and began utilizing “knockout” tournaments, involving very quick matches and quick time controls for the video games—for the lads’s title in 1999 and for the ladies’s in 2000. Although Xie defended her title in New Delhi, India, by profitable the 2000 knockout event, she didn't take part in 2001. In the 2001 knockout event in Moscow, Zhu beat Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia within the ultimate match; they cut up the common video games with two wins every after which every participant received one recreation in a play-off at a quicker time management, which then led to a nonetheless quicker set of two “speed” video games, each received by Zhu. Thus, Zhu received by a ultimate rating of 5 wins, 0 attracts, and three losses. This additionally earned her the (males’s) International Grandmaster (GM) title.
In 2004, following a three-year hiatus in scheduling a ladies’s championship, FIDE once more held a knockout event, in Batumi, Georgia. Citing the quick one-month advance discover given to gamers, safety points with the location, and her being pregnant, Zhu declined to take part, thus ending her reign as champion.
Zhu married Mohamad Al-Modiahki, Qatar’s first grandmaster, in 2000, and the pair characterize Qatar in worldwide chess competitions.