YUANLING YUAN (born Jun-03-1994, 31 years old) China (federation/nationality Canada) [what is this?] She is a WIM and represented Canada on 2nd board at the Women's Olympiad (2008), accumulating 6.5 points in 10 games played. She attended the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2010) on the top Canadian board (7 wins & a draw tallied 7.5 points in 11 games played (5) - earning a total Olympiad score of 22.5 points in 31 games overall). She represented the top Canadian seat at the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2014) (score: +7-3=1) in Norway and scored 8.5 (+7-0=3) in the 2nd seat at the 2016 women's Olympiad(9, 10). She won the Hamilton 2010 Summer Open with 4½/5 and came in 10th at the U-10 (women's) World Youth chess championship in 2003. She rose to 31st overall in the world's top FIDE girls players (in June) and 28th in the continent-rank (women's) Americas section (in August) of 2014. She qualified to the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015) but lost to Mariya Muzychuk in the first round. References: (1) http://www.chess.ca/memberinfo.asp?... (Canadian zone site), (2) http://torontochess.org/drupal/ (Greater Toronto Chess League - GTCL), (3) http://www.olimpbase.org (Olympiad & team chess chronological catalog), (4) http://www.chess-results.com/tnr140... , (5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqN... (Daniel's interview with her at the 2014 Olympiad), (6) Wikipedia article: Yuanling Yuan , (7) http://www.chess.ca/yuanling-yuan , (8) http://yalechess.org/ (both she and fellow Canadian Raja Panjwani are Yale chess club members), (9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuI... (2016 Olympiad Daniel John King interview), (10) http://chess-results.com/tnr232876.... (she scored the highest point percentage of women's players at 2nd board). Last updated: 2016-09-14 17:00:25

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page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 95  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. N Paikidze vs Y Yuan   1-0 51 2003 Wch U10 Girls A52 Budapest Gambit 2. T Roussel-Roozmon vs Y Yuan   ½-½ 52 2007 Canadian Open C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 3. A Reprintsev vs Y Yuan   1-0 78 2007 Canadian Open B20 Sicilian 4. D Gordon vs Y Yuan   1-0 72 2007 Canadian Open A45 Queen's Pawn Game 5. Y Yuan vs K Pacey   0-1 61 2007 Canadian Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 6. M Barron vs Y Yuan   ½-½ 45 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club B72 Sicilian, Dragon 7. Y Yuan vs N Starr   1-0 35 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club B06 Robatsch 8. B Sambuev vs Y Yuan   1-0 40 2008 Winter Pro-Am E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 9. D Bailey vs Y Yuan   1-0 27 2008 Winter Pro-Am B70 Sicilian, Dragon Variation 10. A Samsonkin vs Y Yuan   1-0 31 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club B72 Sicilian, Dragon 11. Y Yuan vs R Mohammed   1-0 44 2008 KW Winter Open B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 12. D Brestoiu vs Y Yuan   0-1 31 2008 KW Winter Open B75 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 13. A Samsonkin vs Y Yuan   1-0 33 2008 KW Winter Open B23 Sicilian, Closed 14. Y Yuan vs J Pryor   1-0 30 2008 KW Winter Open B77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 15. R Sapozhnikov vs Y Yuan   0-1 75 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 16. M Kimelman vs Y Yuan   0-1 51 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club B72 Sicilian, Dragon 17. Y Yuan vs N Noritsyn   0-1 39 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation 18. Y Yuan vs V Plotkin   ½-½ 47 2008 Toronto Closed Ch., Willowdale Club C42 Petrov Defense 19. Y Yuan vs E Wagenschuetz   0-1 38 2008 Panamericano w B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 20. Y Yuan vs J Hall 0-1 35 2008 Ont. - early summer tournament C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed 21. Y Yuan vs F Felecan   0-1 71 2008 Chicago North Am 12th B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 22. Y Yuan vs K Rathnakaran   0-1 54 2008 Canadian & Quebec Open C02 French, Advance 23. S Thavandiran vs Y Yuan   1-0 33 2008 Canadian & Quebec Open B25 Sicilian, Closed 24. N Yap vs Y Yuan   1-0 44 2008 Canadian & Quebec Open B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 25. Y Yuan vs H Masse   ½-½ 76 2008 Canadian & Quebec Open C02 French, Advance  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 95

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Oct-03-10    hellopolgar: From my observation, Canada has many talented Chinese immigrants and their children have an abnormally high percentage of being successful. Oct-08-10    therealbenjinathan: Great performance at the Olympiad. Board 1, 7.5/11 at 16 years of age!. Jul-10-11    Albertan: Here is a link to a photo of her:http://media.thestar.topscms.com/im... Jul-10-11    Albertan: GM Mark Bluveshtein has some nice things to say about Yuangling at his blog: http://markbluvshtein.wordpress.com... Aug-11-14    waustad: Here is a quickchat with her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqN... Aug-11-14    kia0708: no photo of this pretty player on chessgames site ? :-) Aug-12-14    HeMateMe: man, Karpov got fat. <https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...> <https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/...> Aug-12-14    waustad: <hhm>I was 130lb+ through most of my 20s. Reality strikes many of us and I bear too much resemblance to Karpov now. If I make it to the Sinq Cup, maybe you'll all get to see me on the vidcam. Pudgy grey haired (what's left) guy in his mid 60s. That probably describes a fair percentage of us. I have a beard so that makes it a little easier picking which one. Aug-12-14    HeMateMe: I know, it happened to me, too. I weighed 170 when I was 23, and now I'm 40 pounds heavier. Still, Karpov was such a waif, back in the day. He's the last guy I would think would ever get heavy. Mar-17-15    Penguincw: Congrats to Yuanling Yuan for upsetting 8th seed Mariya Muzychuk today! The 7 higher seeds all won their game. Go Canada! Mar-19-15    Penguincw: Nice effort by Yuanling Yuan at the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015). After she upset Mariya Muzychuk (Y Yuan vs M Muzychuk, 2015) in Game 1, Muzychuk came back to win the 2nd game to force a tiebreaker. Muzychuk won the 1st tiebreaker game with black, and drew an OCB ending to finish the match, eliminating the Canadian. Still, Yuanling Yuan gained 6.6 rating points in classical (now up to 2264). I don't think she has a rapid rating, and I doubt the rapid games count for a rapid rating, but Mariya Muzychuk is rated 2459 in rapid, so yeah... Go Canada! Sep-13-16    cro777: WIM Yuanling Yuan (2205) as a member of the women's chess team represented Canada on 2nd board at the Baku Chess Olympiad (2016), accumulating 8.5 points in 10 games played. http://www.sinaimg.cn/dy/slidenews/... (Canadian 2nd and 3rd board: Yuanling Yuan and Alexandra Botez, a Yale and a Stanford student). May-09-22    Albertan: Venture capital vice-président says chess provides lifelong lessons: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/lif...

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