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Zhongyi Tan
Z Tan 
 

Number of games in database: 1,152
Years covered: 2001 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2539 (2507 rapid, 2457 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2561
Overall record: +281 -134 =293 (60.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 444 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (72) 
    E60 E92 E61 E71 E67
 Queen's Gambit Declined (61) 
    D30 D37 D31 D35 D38
 Queen's Pawn Game (50) 
    A45 E00 D02 A50 A41
 Slav (46) 
    D15 D11 D17 D18 D16
 English (36) 
    A15 A10 A13 A14 A17
 Nimzo Indian (33) 
    E21 E32 E20 E53 E51
With the Black pieces:
 Pirc (72) 
    B07 B09 B08
 Sicilian (70) 
    B30 B32 B40 B52 B22
 Queen's Gambit Declined (54) 
    D38 D31 D35 D37 D30
 Queen's Pawn Game (48) 
    D02 A45 A46 E10 A41
 Ruy Lopez (39) 
    C67 C65 C77 C78 C84
 Nimzo Indian (33) 
    E32 E53 E21 E20 E48
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Z Tan vs X Zhang, 2011 1-0
   Z Tan vs Ying Zhu, 2015 1-0
   Z Tan vs V Cmilyte, 2011 1-0
   W Ju vs Z Tan, 2018 1/2-1/2
   Sutovsky vs Z Tan, 2014 0-1
   W Ju vs Z Tan, 2017 0-1
   T T Hoang vs Z Tan, 2011 0-1
   N Pogonina vs Z Tan, 2010 0-1
   Z Tan vs Y Shen, 2015 1-0
   Z Tan vs T Abrahamyan, 2013 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Chinese Championship (Women) (2015)
   Baku Olympiad (Women) (2016)
   China Chess Queens (2015)
   Belt and Road Int Women (2024)
   Chinese Championship (Women) (2021)
   Chinese Chess League (2017)
   Chinese Championship (Women) (2010)
   Chinese Championship (Women) (2009)
   Chinese Championship (Women) (2017)
   FIDE Grand Swiss (Women) (2023)
   FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial (Women) (2020)
   FIDE World Cup Women (2023)
   Chinese Chess League (2016)
   FIDE Women's World Cup (2025)
   Chinese Team Championship (2015)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 FIDE Women's World Cup
   T Lei vs Z Tan (Jul-27-25) 0-1
   Z Tan vs T Lei (Jul-26-25) 1/2-1/2
   D Deshmukh vs Z Tan (Jul-23-25) 1-0
   Z Tan vs D Deshmukh (Jul-22-25) 1/2-1/2
   Z Tan vs R Vaishali (Jul-20-25) 1-0

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ZHONGYI TAN
(born May-29-1991, 34 years old) China
PRONUNCIATION:
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WGM (2009); GM (2017); Chinese Women's Champion (2015); Women's World Champion (2017). She is also a National Arbiter.

As a junior, Tan Zhongyi was world girls under 10 champion in 2000 and 2001, and world girls under 12 champion in 2002.

In 2015, Tan won the Chinese Championship (Women) (2015) the China Chess Queens (2015).

On March 3, 2017, Tan Zhongyi (China) became the 16th Women's World Chess Champion. Tan defeated Anna Muzychuk in the rapid tiebreakers to win the Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2017). She was automatically awarded the Grandmaster title for doing so, although she already qualified for the title by simply reaching the final, which is worth a GM norm. That was her final norm as Tan previously achieved two GM norms at Gibraltar Masters (2014) and Gibraltar Masters (2016). In May 2018, she relinquished her title to Challenger Wenjun Ju at the completion of the Tan - Ju Women's World Championship Match (2018), which she lost 4.5-5.5 (+2 -3 =5).

Wikipedia article: Tan Zhongyi

Last updated: 2024-06-14 07:28:34

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 page 1 of 47; games 1-25 of 1,152  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. C Zhu vs Z Tan  1-0342001zt3.3 WomenA48 King's Indian
2. Z Tan vs X Gu 0-1152001zt3.3 WomenA34 English, Symmetrical
3. Q Gong vs Z Tan  ½-½602001zt3.3 WomenB87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5
4. Z Tan vs Y Xu  0-1212001zt3.3 WomenA11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System
5. P Wang vs Z Tan 1-0192001zt3.3 WomenB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
6. Z Tan vs R Li  ½-½342001zt3.3 WomenE81 King's Indian, Samisch
7. G Zhou vs Z Tan  1-0292001zt3.3 WomenB50 Sicilian
8. Yu Ting vs Z Tan  1-0472001zt3.3 WomenB87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5
9. Z Tan vs L Ruan  ½-½302001zt3.3 WomenD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
10. Y Xu vs Z Tan  1-0332001zt3.3 WomenB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
11. Z Tan vs X Zhao  0-1392001zt3.3 WomenA89 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6
12. Q Huang vs Z Tan  1-0252001zt3.3 WomenE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
13. Z Tan vs Y Wang  0-1282001zt3.3 WomenA34 English, Symmetrical
14. A Savina vs Z Tan  0-1542003Wch U12 GirlsE99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov
15. Z Tan vs A Stefanova 0-1442004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. A Stefanova vs Z Tan  1-0342004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentA45 Queen's Pawn Game
17. X Zhao vs Z Tan  0-1352008TCh-CHN w A(Rapid)B07 Pirc
18. Z Tan vs X Zhang  1-0252008TCh-CHN w AA45 Queen's Pawn Game
19. Z Tan vs J Zhang  1-0242008TCh-CHN w AE75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line
20. Z Tan vs W Ju  0-1292008CHN-ch (Women)E73 King's Indian
21. Y Hou vs Z Tan  1-0362008CHN-ch (Women)B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
22. Z Tan vs T Sachdev  ½-½692008Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
23. T Sachdev vs Z Tan  0-1422008Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentE92 King's Indian
24. Z Tan vs P Cramling  ½-½352008Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
25. P Cramling vs Z Tan 1-0452008Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD90 Grunfeld
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Nov-18-08  Newmark: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Zh...
http://baike.baidu.com/view/491997....

Born in 1991 (age 17) in Chongqing
Untitled
rating 2395

Board 5-Olympiad Women 2008, on 4/4 points so far

Nov-19-08  dumbgai: Tan Zhongyi won again today. She now has 5/5 at the Olympiad on 4th board.
Oct-25-09  redwhitechess: She is a WGM now.
Mar-04-10  BIDMONFA: Tan Zhongyi

TAN, Zhongyi
http://www.bidmonfa.com/tan_zhongyi...
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Apr-29-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/...

Placed 4th today in the Asian Continental Championship: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr331...

Mar-11-13  notyetagm: Tan Zhongyi

Wow, she won 3 consecutive(!!!) World Youth Chess Championships.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_...

2000: Under-10 Girls
2001: Under-10 Girls
2002: Under-12 Girls

Feb-06-14  kwi: Congratulations to Tan Zhongyi for obtaining her first GM Norm at Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014!
May-29-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: A great birthday present for Tan Zhongyi, as she drew her last round game to secure the Chinese women championship with 8.5/11, half a point ahead of Shen Yang.
Feb-26-16  cro777: 2016 IMSA Elite Mind Game in Huai’an, China.

In the Woman's group of the rapid tournament, after four rounds Tan Zhongyi is leading with perfect score.

"She defeated Huang Qian and Gunina playing white, as well as conquering Khotenashvil and Dzagnidze playing black.

In those four game, Tan Zhongyi showed excellent skill and played undoubtedly her A-game, dominating the position from start to the end and gave her opponents absolutely no chance."

http://imsa2016.fide.com/en/main-page

Feb-27-16  cro777: Tan Zhongyi in Woman's and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in Men's competition are the winners of the rapid tournament.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcQbKhj...

May-23-16  cro777: Tan Zhongyi turns 25 during the 2nd China Women Grandmaster Basque Chess Tournament in Yangzhou, China.

http://n.sinaimg.cn/video/transform...

In Basque system chess tournaments the players face each other twice simultaneously, once with black and once with white.

http://n.sinaimg.cn/video/transform...

Feb-26-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Best wishes in the Women's World Chess Championship final vs. Anna Muzychuk
Feb-28-17  abstract: The women world champion to be player and a profile without a photo that's not acceptable
Feb-28-17  cro777: At the Women's World Chess Championship final 2017, after two games Tan Zhongyi leads against Anna Muzychuk 1.5-0.5. The final is the only match of the tournament which consists of four classical games.

http://n.sinaimg.cn/sports/transfor...

Feb-28-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: I know this have already been covered (over at Hou's page, about family name vs given name), Tan is the family name. =))

See FIDE card: https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml...

Feb-28-17  cro777: <WannaBe: Tan is the family name>

In modern Chinese names the family name, e.g. Tan, comes first and is usually monosyllabic.

Tan Zhongyi, age 25, was born in Chongqing, a major city in Southwest China. In the Chinese Chess League Division A, one of the strongest and longest running leagues of its kind (twelve teams are competing in 22 rounds from April to December), she plays the top women's board for the Chongqing chess team.

At the 42nd Chess Olympiad in 2016 Tan Zhongyi won the women's team gold medal and individual gold medal for board 4:

http://n.sinaimg.cn/sports/transfor...

Recently, at the 1st Hainan International Chess Open Tournament (7-16 December 2016, Danzhou, China) she drew Richard Rapport:

http://n.sinaimg.cn/sports/transfor...

She took the fifth place (out of 69) scoring 6/9, while Rapport was 14th with 5.5/9. The tournament was convincingly won by Yu Yangyi with 8/9.

Mar-03-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Long reign the new queen!
Mar-03-17  wordfunph: women's world champ Tan Zhongyi!
Mar-03-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: Perhaps now she is the Women's World Championship her bio could be updated.

Currently it reads:

TAN ZHONGYI

(born May-29-1991, 25 years old) China

She is a WGM.

And that is it.

Mar-03-17  notyetagm: Does she automatically become <GM> by winning the title? I would imagine so.

Would be embarrassing for FIDE to refer to the Women's WC as a WGM or IM.

Mar-03-17  cro777: FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (Knock Out system) took place in Tehran, Iran with 64 players from February 10 – March 4, 2017.

In the final match Tan Zhongyi defeated Anna Muzychuk on tie-break with 1,5 – 0,5. Four previous games with classical time control finished with 2:2 score.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5_ppZV...

Tan Zhongyi is China's 5th World Champion, after Xie Jun, Zhu Chen, Xu Yuhua and Hou Yifan.

This is the trophy:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6AFmDo...

Mar-03-17  dx9293: <notyetagm> Yes, by winning the FWWC title, Tan automatically becomes a GM (Ushenina also gained her GM title this way).

Automatic GM:
-Women's World Champion
-World Junior Champion
-World Senior Champion
-Reaching last 16 of World Cup

Had Tan lost in the final match, she would have only earned a 9-game GM norm.

Mar-03-17  cro777: As noted above, by virtue of winning this championship Tan Zhongyi will be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

After this success one thing Tan Zhongyi is looking forward is her hometown of Chongqing to have more chess competitions. She also said that she was very grateful to the coach Yu Shaoteng who was helping her during the tournament.

http://www.sinaimg.cn/dy/slidenews/...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6AyQXr...

GM Yu Shaoteng, the national women's chess team coach, was also the personal trainer of Hou Yifan.

Mar-03-17  cro777: Psychology of champions: one needs to be strong not only in chess, but in the psychological sense as well.

Tan Zhongyi: "I was very calm during the entire event, I never felt stressed or under pressure. Maybe that was the reason for my success"

http://www.sinaimg.cn/dy/slidenews/...

Mar-04-17  alexapple: <notyetagm> In fact, Tan Zhongyi already became GM by reaching final of 2017 WWCC, because she got 2 GM norms in Gibraltar Open in 2014 and 2016. By reaching final in 2017 WWCC, she would get the third and final GM norm.
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