Bai Jinshi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Bai.

Bai Jinshi (Chinese: 白金石; pinyin: Bái Jīnshí; born 18 May 1999) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster.^[3]

Bai Jinshi
Country	China
Born	(1999-05-18) 18 May 1999 (age 26) Changchun, Jilin, China[1]
Title	Grandmaster (2015)[2]
FIDE rating	2571 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2618 (January 2020)

Career

Born in Jilin,^[4] Bai won the Under 10 section of the World Youth Chess Championships in 2009.^[5] He played for China A team in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad in 2013. Bai won the London Chess Classic Open (jointly with Kamil Dragun) in 2014,^[6] the Cannes Open^[7] and the Groningen Chess Festival (on tiebreak from Sergei Tiviakov) in 2016.^[8] In April 2018, he finished tied for first place with Wen Yang in the Chinese Chess Championship and ended in second place on tiebreak score.^[9][10] In December, he won the North American Open in Las Vegas, US.^[11] In the same year, Bai played for the Chinese team in the China-Russia match,^[12] the Asian Nations Cup,^[13] where China won the bronze medal,^[14] and the India-China Summit match.^[15] In March 2019, Bai won the Spring Chess Classic B tournament in St Louis, US.^[16]