Peng Xiaomin

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Peng Xiaomin
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Full name Peng Xiaomin
Country Flag of the People's Republic of China China
Born April 8, 1973 (1973-04-08) (age 35)
China
Title Grandmaster (GM)
FIDE rating 2590
Peak rating 2657 (July 2000)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Peng.

Peng Xiaomin (Chinese: 彭小民; born April 8, 1973)[1] is a Chinese chess grandmaster.

Peng has been a grandmaster since 1997. In 1998, he became the Chinese National Chess Champion.

He played for the China national Olympiad team for 1994-2000.[2]

Peng competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 in New Delhi, where he reached the third round having been beaten by Peter Svidler 2.5-1.5.

Peng was a World Top 100 Chess Player according the FIDE ratings [3] from July 2000 to October 2002, while also at the same time was the third ranked Chinese player.

Although today he is still officially in the Top 10 in China, he has limited his activities to playing for and coaching his club team in the domestic Chinese chess league.

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  1. ^ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
  2. ^ Men's national team career for Peng Xiaomin
  3. ^ Peng, Xiaomin CHN FIDE World Top Chess Player

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Preceded by
Lin Weiguo
Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1998
Succeeded by
Wang Zili
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