Title Woman Grandmaster | Name Ni Shiqun | |
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Born February 26, 1997 (age 27) Shanghai ( 1997-02-26 ) | ||
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Ni Shiqun (Chinese: 倪诗群; born 26 February 1997 in Shanghai) is a Chinese chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
In July 2015, she finished equal second and third on tiebreak at the FIDE Zonal 3.5 Championship, a qualifier for the next knockout Women's World Chess Championship. In October 2015, Ni won the women's division of the inaugural Asian University Chess Championship, which took place in Beijing. In 2016, she also won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Abu Dhabi, edging Ghazal Hakimifard and Anna Warakomska on tiebreak.
She beat three higher-rated players to make it to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Chess Championship 2017, where she was beaten by Alexandra Kosteniuk.
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