Liang Chong

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Liang Chong
Full name Liang Chong
Country Flag of the People's Republic of China China
Born January 29, 1980 (1980-01-29) (age 28)[1]
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Title Grandmaster (GM)
FIDE rating 2484
Peak rating 2588 (October 2000)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Liang.

Liang Chong (Chinese: 梁充; born January 29, 1980 in Guangzhou, Guangdong)[2] is a Chinese chess player. He gained the GM title in 2004.[3][4]

He participated for the China national chess team at the 34th Chess Olympiad (2000) with an overall record of 3 games played (+1, =1, -1);[5] one World Men's Team Chess Championship (2005) with an overall record of 1 game played (+1, =0, -0);[6] and one Men's Asian Team Chess Championships (1999) with an overall record of 5 games played (+2, =2, -1) for the China B team.[7]

In 1999 he managed to qualify for the FIDE World Chess Championship Knockout Tournament in Las Vegas, but was beaten in the first round by Goran Dizdar.[8] At the 2001-2 WCC Knockout Tournament in Moscow, he was again defeated in the first round (by Alexander Motylev).[9]

He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2588 on October 2000.[10]

He achieved his first GM norm at the 3rd S.T. Lee Cup Open Tournament in September 1996 scoring 6/10. His second GM norm wasn't achieved until another 5 years in April 2001 at the World Championship Zonal 3.3 in Handan with a score 8/13. His third norm was achieved in September 2003 at the Chinese Team Chess Championship in Tianjin with a score of 6.5/10.

His latest tournament was in March 2008 at the 10th World University Chess Championship tournament in Novokuznetsk where he came 7th.[11]

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