Gong Qianyun

In this Chinese name, the family name is Gong.

Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; born 11 March 1985)^[1] is a Singaporean chess player and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

Gong Qianyun
Country	Singapore
Born	(1985-03-11) 11 March 1985 (age 40) Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
Title	Woman Grandmaster (2018)
Peak rating	2381 (February 2019)

Chess career

Since Gong was seven year old, she started training in a chess academy in Guangdong, China.^[2]

2001 to 2009

Gong finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship.^[3]

Gong 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.^[4][5][6][7] 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.^[8]

After a series of defeat, Gong left the Chinese teams in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong where she taught chess there.^[9]

2009 to present

In 2009, Gong moved to Singapore to work as a chess coach.^[10]

She won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012,^[11] 2015,^[12] 2016,^[13] 2017^[14] and 2018.^[15]

In 2014, Gong transferred to the Singapore Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore.^[16] In the same year, she played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 41st Chess Olympiad^[17] and earned a norm for the title Woman Grandmaster thanks to a performance rating of 2412.^[18]

In June 2018, Gong earned her final WGM norm at the QCD Prof Lim Kok Ann Invitational tournament^[19][20] and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE.^[21] 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.^[22]

In 2019, Gong took part in 2019 SEA Games and won the women's rapid chess, beating nine other competitors to win Singapore's first gold medal in chess.^[2] The gold was also Singapore's 900th gold medal of the SEA Games.^[2]

In 2024, Gong won the Gold medal in the Women's category of 2023-24 Commonwealth Chess Championship held at Malacca, Malaysia.^[23]

Gong plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).^[24]

Personal life

In 2012, Gong married her husband Tay Shi Hao. She also became a Singaporean citizen in the same year.^[2] The couple has two children.^[2]