Country | China Singapore |
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Born | 11 March 1985 Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China |
Title | Woman International Master (2006) |
Peak rating | 2374 (October 2005) |
Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; 11 born March 1985) is a Chinese-Singaporean chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).
Gong Qianyun plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).
She finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship.
Gong played fourth board on a slightly weaker Chinese women's team - the only women's team present - at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.
In 2006 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.
In 2014 Gong transferred to the Singaporean Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore. She played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 2014 Chess Olympiad and earned a Woman Grandmaster norm thanks to her rating performance of 2412.