Yang Kaiqi
Yang Kaiqi | |
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Born | (1988-05-06) 6 May 1988 (age 36) Heilongjiang, China |
Title | Grandmaster (2019) |
FIDE rating | 2481 (August 2024) |
Peak rating | 2505 (March 2019) |
Yang Kaiqi (born 6 May 1988[1] in Heilongjiang Province) is a Chinese-Canadian chess Grandmaster, who won the First (Hi Seoul) Korea Open Chess tournament[2][3] held at the Olympic Parktel Convention Center, Seoul (from 29 November – 6 December 2008). This is the strongest chess tournament ever held in South Korea.
In 2008, Yang has also played at the 3rd PGMA Cup,[4] at the Aeroflot Open,[5] and at the Malaysian Open.[6]
In 2015 he shared first place in the 46th National Chess Congress in Philadelphia, finishing ahead of strong Grandmasters such as Gata Kamsky and Sergey Erenburg. [7] He is now based in Canada, and shared second place behind GM Evgeny Bareev in the 2015 "Chess to Remember" tournament in Toronto held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.[8]
In August 2017, he transferred to the Chess Federation of Canada.[9]
In March 2019, he came first at GM Round Robin Paracin, Serbia, clinching his grandmaster title.[10]
References
- ^ "Chessinchina.Net". Chessinchina.Net. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Fide President Visits Seoul". Fide.com. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "1st Korea Open chess tournament2008". Chess-Results Server. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Chesscenter". Chesscenter. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Mikhaylov, Yury". www.aeroflotchess.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007.
- ^ "Chessbase". Chessbase. 23 August 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ Abdul-Alim, Jamaal (1 December 2015). "Kaiqi Yang Shares Philly Turkey with Gorovets & Panchanathan". US Chess Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "Russian chess master wins Canada's first web broadcast competition". CTV News Toronto. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ^ "Transfers in 2017". FIDE. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "GM Round Robin "Paracin 2019" March 2019 Serbia FIDE Chess Tournament report".
External links
- Yang, Kaiqi rating card at FIDE
- Yang, Kaiqi rating and tournament record at Chess Federation of Canada
- Yang Kaiqi player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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