Zhu Chen

Zhu Chen (, ; born March 13, 1976) is a Chinese and Qatari chess grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari citizenship and since then has played for Qatar.

Biography In 1988 Zhu became the first Chinese player to win an international chess competition when she won the World Girls Under-12 Championship in Romania.

She won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 1994 and 1996. When she became Grandmaster in 1999, she was the seventh woman to do so.

At the age of 25 she defeated Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia in a tournament for the 2001/2002 Women's World Chess Championship, by 5–3, becoming the ninth champion.

Zhu gave up the chance to defend her world title in Georgia in May 2004 due to a jammed schedule and her pregnancy.

In June 2004, Zhu played two games against the chess computer "Star of Unisplendour", which was an advanced AMD 64 bit 3400+ CPU and 2 GB RAM combined with the chess engine Fritz 8. She lost both games.

Zhu is married to Qatari Grandmaster Mohammed Al-Modiahki, and now represents Qatar. As of 2010, they have two daughters: Dana (b. 2004) and Hind (b. 2008). She also studied for a master's degree at Tsinghua University.

Performance in competitions 1988.25 July-7 August, World Girls Under 12 Championship. 1st place - Romania 1990.5–19 September, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship "Group B".1st place - China 1991, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship. 2nd place - Chengdu, China 1992. September, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship. 1st place - Beijing, China 1994.1–26 May, Chinese National Women's Individual Championship. 1st place - Beijing, China 1994. June, Asian Girls Junior Chess Championship. 1st place - Shah Alam, Malaysia 1994. September, World Girls Junior Chess Championship. 1st place - Matinhos, Brazil 1994.1–15 December, The 15th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 3rd place -Moscow, Russia 1996.14–27 May, Chinese National Individual Championship. 1st place - Tianjin, China 1996.14 September-2 October，The 16th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 2nd place - Yerevan, Armenia 1996.9–22 November, World Girls Junior Chess Championship. 1st place - Medellín, Colombia 1997.15–26 May, Chinese National Men's Individual Championship. 2nd place - Beijing, China 1998 29 September-12 October, The 17th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 1st place - Russia 2000.28 November - 12 December, The 18th World Women's Olympiad team championship. 1st place - Istanbul, Turkey 2001.27 November-13 December，World Women's Individual Championship. 1st place - Moscow, Russia] 2002. March. FIDE Grand Prix, Zhu was able to claim the win and knock Ruslan Ponomariov out of the tournament. This is possibly the only female player to ever beat the male world champion in any competitive sport. - Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2002, World Women's Olympiad team championship. 1st place - Slovenia 2005. March, Accoona Women's World Rapid Chess Championship. 1st place - New York City, United States 2006. July, The North Urals Cup. 2nd place - Krasnoturinsk, Russia 2006，Asian game Women's Individual. 3rd place - Doha, Qatar 2007.July, The North Urals Cup. 1st place - Krasnoturinsk, Russia 2007. November, Asian Indoor Games Women's Individual Rapid Championship. 1st place；Asian Indoor Games Women's Individual Blitz Championship. 2nd place - Macau 2009. November, Asian Indoor Games Women's Individual Rapid Championship. 2nd place - Ha Long, Vietnam 2010. November, Guangzhou Asian game Women's Individual. 8th place - Guangzhou, China 2011. December, Arab Games Women's Individual Chess Championship. 1st place; Arab Games Women's Individual Rapid Chess Championship. 1st place;Arab Games Women's Individual Blitz Chess Championship. 1st place - Doha, Qatar

China Chess League Zhu Chen plays for Zhejiang chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).