Ni Hua
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| Ni Hua | ||
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| Ni Hua (left) at the Macau 2nd Asian Indoor Games | ||
| Full name | Ni Hua | |
| Country |  China |
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| Born | May 31, 1983 Shanghai, China |
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| Title | Grandmaster (GM) | |
| FIDE rating | 2704 (No. 24 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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| Peak rating | 2704 (April 2008) | |
- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ni.
Ni Hua (Simplified Chinese: 倪华; Traditional Chinese: 倪華; born May 31, 1983 in Shanghai)[1] is a Chinese chess player.
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[edit] Chess career
Ni learned to play chess at six. He won the S.T. Lee Cup for under 14 year-olds in 1996 and 1997 and repeated the performance in a higher age group in 1999. In 2000 he played in his first Olympiad in Istanbul, where he scored 5.5/9. In the 2001 China-USA Summit Match, Ni Hua scored notable victories against Dmitry Schneider and Hikaru Nakamura.
In February 2000, he gained his first GM norm at the 1st Saturday GM Tournament in Budapest with 7/10 score. He achieved his second GM norm at the April 2001 China Team Championship in Suzhou with a score of 6.5/10. His third GM norm was achieved at the Tan Chin Nam Cup with a score of 6.5/9 in Qingdao in July 2002.
In August 2004, Ni won the 1st Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur.[2][3] In the (August) 2004 FIDE World championship he beat Evgeny Vladimirov in round one but was put out by his fellow countryman Ye Jiangchuan in the next round.[4] In November 2005, the Chinese national team just needed one point to win the championship in the World Team Championship in Beersheba, Israel but Ni Hua's two endgame losses (to Karen Asrian of Armenia and Alexander Morozevich of Russia) in the final two rounds allowed Russia to clinch victory.[5]
Ni won the Chinese National Chess Championship twice consecutively in 2006[6] and 2007.[7]
In December 2007, he won the Prospero Pichay Cup in Manila with a score of 7.0/9.[8]
In April 2008, Ni competed at the Russian Team Championships in Dagomys, Sochi for the team Economist-SGSEU-1 (Saratov), where he achieved a score of 7.0/11 (+4=6-1) and a performance rating of 2735.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Najdorf syndrome and the secret of the Filipinos
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - 1st Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysia Open
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - FIDE WCC R2-2: 14 games in four days
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Caught! Russians win the World Team Championship
- ^ CHN Men Champ.2006 - CHN. FIDE.
- ^ 2007 China Men's Individu - CHN. FIDE.
- ^ FIDE Online. Tournament report April 2008
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| Preceded by Wang Yue |
Men's Chinese Chess Champion 2006, 2007 |
Succeeded by TBD |
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