Full name Zhang Jilin Role Chess Player | Name Zhang Jilin Country China | |
Born June 24, 1986 (age 37)
Harbin, Heilongjiang ( 1986-06-24 ) Title Woman Grandmaster (2007) | ||
Zhang Jilin (simplified Chinese: 张继林; traditional Chinese: 張繼林; pinyin: Zhāng Jìlín; born June 24, 1986) is a Chinese chess Woman Grandmaster.
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Zhang Jilin first represented China in the World Under 10 Championships in Menorca in 1996 and then three times subsequently at the World Junior (U/20) Girls Championships in 2004, 2005 and 2006, finishing in the top ten on all three occasions.
Zhang currently plays for Shandong chess club in the top division of the China Chess League (CCL), alongside Women's World Champion Hou Yifan.
She was awarded the International Arbiter title in 2010. In August 2017, she switched her national federation from China to Australia.
WGM title
In June 2007, she qualified for the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title. She earned WGM norms at:
Women's World Chess Championship
In 2008 Zhang qualified from the Chinese Zonal tournament and reached the final stages of the Women's World Chess Championship in Nalchik, Russia, where she was knocked out in the first round by Irina Gaponenko.