Gong Qianyun
Gong Qianyun is a Chinese-Singaporean chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018.
She finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship. Gong Qianyun won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Gong Qianyun played on board four on the Chinese women's team — the only women's team present — at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005. The following year, she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria with a score of 7/9 points, contributing to China's team gold medal.
In 2014 Gong Qianyun transferred to the Singapore Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore. In the same year, she played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 41st Chess Olympiad and earned a norm for the title Woman Grandmaster thanks to a performance rating of 2412. In June 2018, Gong earned her final WGM norm at the QCD Prof Lim Kok Ann Invitational tournament. In December, she tied with Padmini Rout for first place in the Asian Women's Continental Championship in Makati, Philippines, scoring 7/9 points. Gong took the silver medal on tiebreak score.
Gong Qianyun plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League.
