Ye Jiangchuan

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Ye Jiangchuan
CountryChina
Born (1960-11-20) November 20, 1960 (age 63)
Wuxi, Jiangsu
TitleGrandmaster (1993)
FIDE rating2585 (April 2024)
Peak rating2684 (April 2003)
Peak rankingNo. 17 (October 2000)
Ye Jiangchuan
Hanyu Pinyin
Yè Jiāngchuān
Wade–GilesYe Jiang-chuan
Yale RomanizationYè Jyāngchwān
IPA[jê tɕjáŋʈʂʰwán]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYihp gong chyun
JyutpingJip6 gong1 cyun1
IPA[jɪ̀p kɔ́ːŋ tɕʰýːn]

Ye Jiangchuan (born November 20, 1960) is a Chinese

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mark.

Career

Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu,[1] Ye learned chess when he was 17 years old, and at 20 he became national champion of China. He has altogether won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times (1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1996).

Ye has represented his country at numerous Chess Olympiads and Asian Team Chess Championships. He has been four times member of the Asia Team champions, a 12 times Olympiad participant. In his first appearance, in 1982, Ye won the individual silver medal on board four. His best team result in an Olympiad was in 1998 in Elista, where he was on the first board as the national team finished in fifth place.

Ye was 1995 and 1999 Champion of

Vassily Ivanchuk
by ½–1½. He also reached the quarter-finals in the 2000 and 2002 FIDE World Cup.

Ye has played less frequently after becoming the chief coach of the Chinese national teams (men and women) in 2000.

FIDE Senior Trainer in 2005. Ye's highest world ranking was 17th in October 2000 and he had been consistently in the top 25 from 2000 to 2004.[3]

China Chess League

Ye Jiangchuan plays for Beijing chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[4]

References

  1. ^ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ ChessBase.com, The Beijing Chess Challenge, September 28, 2003.
  3. ^ Ye, Jiangchuan CHN FIDE World Top Chess Player
  4. ^ "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.

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Preceded by Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1981
Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1984
Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1986, 1987
Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1989
Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1994
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Preceded by Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1996
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