| Ye Rongguang | |
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| Full name | Ye Rongguang |
| Country | China |
| Born | October 3, 1963 [1] Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
| FIDE rating | 2461 (inactive) |
| Peak rating | 2545 (January 1991) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 葉榮光 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶荣光 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ye Rongguang (simplified Chinese: 叶荣光; traditional Chinese: 葉榮光; pinyin: Yè Róngguāng; born October 3, 1963 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang)[2] is a retired Chinese chess Grandmaster, who in 1990, became the first ever Chinese player to gain the Grandmaster title.[3][4][5] He was for more than ten years the coach of women's world chess champion Zhu Chen. He lives in the Netherlands, and was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Netherlands Chinese Photographic Society.[6]
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Ye Rongguang competed at the 1990 World Chess Championship (Manila VI-VII, Interzonal Tournament) where he finished in 44th place with 6/13 points.[7] 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.[8]
Ye has competed in the China national chess team in the Chess Olympiad three times at the Men's Chess Olympiad (1988–92) (games played 35: +19 −5 =11),[9] and twice at the Men's World Team Chess Championships (1985–89) (games played 15: +8 −5 =2) winning bronze on 6th board in 1985.[10] 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.[11]
| Preceded by Ye Jiangchuan |
Men's Chinese Chess Champion 1990 |
Succeeded by Lin Weiguo |
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