Ye Rongguang

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Ye Rongguang
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Full name Ye Rongguang
Country Flag of the People's Republic of China China
Born October 3, 1963 (1963-10-03) (age 44)[1]
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
Title Grandmaster (GM)
FIDE rating 2461 (inactive)
Peak rating 2545 (January 1991)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ye.

Ye Rongguang (Chinese: 叶荣光; born October 3, 1963 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang)[2] is a Chinese chess player. In 1990, he became the first Chinese player to gain the GM title.[3][4][5]

Ye Rongguang competed at the 1990 World Chess Championship (Manila VI-VII, Interzonal Tournament) where he finished in 44th place with 6/13 points.[6] In the same year he won the China National Chess Championship. He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2545 on January 1991 when he was ranked 97th in the world.[7]

Ye has competed in the China national chess team in the Chess Olympiad three times at the Men's Chess Olympiad (1988-1992) (games played 35: +19, =11, -5),[8] and twice at the Men's World Team Chess Championships (1985-1989) (games played 15: +8, =2, -5) winning bronze on 6th board in 1985.[9] Ye also competed twice at the Men's Asian Team Chess Championship (1987, 1991), with an overall record of 13 games (+11, =1, -1). He won an individual bronze medal and an individual gold in 1987 and 1991, respectively.[10]

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Preceded by
Ye Jiangchuan
Men's Chinese Chess Champion
1990
Succeeded by
Lin Weiguo
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