Country Finland
Canada | Name Qiyu Zhou | |
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Title Woman International Master Ranking No. 1 ranked woman in Canada | ||
Under 14 world youth chess champion qiyu zhou
Qiyu Zhou (born 2000) is a Canadian chess player who holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Zhou won the Canadian women's championship in 2016 and has competed for team Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2014.
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- Under 14 world youth chess champion qiyu zhou
- Qiyu zhou won the world youth u 14 chess champion
- Chess career
- References
Qiyu zhou won the world youth u 14 chess champion
Chess career
Zhou learned to play chess at the age of four years in France. In late 2004, she moved to Finland.
Zhou won the Finnish Youth Chess Championships five times (in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010) in the U10 Open section. Also in 2010, she won the Nordic School Chess Championships in the U11 Open division in Sweden.
In 2008, she won the silver medal in the U8 Girls section at the World Youth Chess Championship in Vũng Tàu, Vietnam.
In 2011, Zhou transferred chess federations from Finland to Canada. She won the Canadian Youth Chess Championship in 2012 and 2013, in the Girls U-12 and Girls U-14 sections respectively.
Zhou won the gold medal in the Girls U-14 section at the 2014 World Youth Championships in Durban, South Africa.
Also in 2014, Zhou made her debut at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. She played board 4 for the Canadian team scoring 6½/9 points. In the same year she also took part in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Győr, Hungary playing board 4 for team Canada, which finished fifth.
She finished first in the U-18 Girls category at the North American Youth Chess Championships in 2015 Toluca, Mexico. As a result, she was automatically awarded by FIDE the title Woman International Master (WIM).
In September 2016, Zhou won the Canadian women's championship and as a result qualified to play in the Women's World Chess Championship 2017.