Ruan Lufei
Ruan Lufei | |
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Country | Woman Grandmaster (2008) |
FIDE rating | 2491 (April 2024) |
Peak rating | 2503 (January 2014) |
Ruan Lufei (
Career
Ruan's natural talent for the game, hard work, and co-operation with her coach, Xu Jun, saw her break into the world's top 20 female chess players in January 2008.[3] She had previously been in the FIDE Top 20 Girls List from 2004 to 2007, having reached a peak of 6th position on the October 2007 list.
Ruan was part of the Chinese women's team (with Zhao Xue, Hou Yifan, Shen Yang, Huang Qian) that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship 2007 in Yekaterinburg.[4] She had also won a silver medal (3rd board prize) with a score of 6/7.[5]
In 2007, Ruan won second prize at the 12th Asian Women's Chess Championship.
During August and September 2008, at the Women's World Chess Championship she was knocked out in the third round 0.5-1.5 by Pia Cramling of Sweden.
In the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, Ruan was part of the Chinese Women's team and won the gold medal, which was the second time she was on a team winning the World Team Championship.
In the
She plays for Jiangsu chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[6]
WGM title
In 2007, she was awarded the
- 2004 China Women's Team Championship in Jinan, China (April 16–24, 2004); score 6.5/9
- China Zonal 3.5 Women's Championship in Beijing (October 20–25, 2005); score 5.0/9
- 8th Russian Women's Team Championship in Sochi, Russia (May 1–11, 2007); score 7.5/10
Personal life
Ruan began studying at Tsinghua University in 2005, and is now a doctoral candidate in the field of Accounting at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.[8]
Ruan Lufei's father, Ruan Miqing, is an associate professor at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He trained her from her childhood.
See also
References
- ^ Rating data for player Ruan, Lufei, (CHN)
- ^ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ FIDE Archive: Top 100 Women October 2009
- ^ China wins Women's Team Championship by two points
- ^ 1st Women's World Chess Team Championship: Ekaterinburg 2007
- ^ "雅戈尔杯中国国际象棋甲级联赛官方网站". Archived from the original on 2011-10-28. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
- ^ WGM Title Application, ratings.fide.com
- ^ "Current Doctoral Candidates: Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon". Tepper.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
External links
- Ruan Lufei rating card at FIDE
- Lufei Ruan chess games at 365Chess.com
- Ruan Lufei player profile and games at Chessgames.com