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CHN · 35 yrs · K=10 · Peak 2561 (Dec 2024)

Best performance: 2732 at 2019 Chinese Chess League Division A (12-15)(Best of 2018)

World #=417 live, down 59#358 publishedChina #25Asia #104among active players

NOV26 Rating

2536

Live Rating

2526.0

Change

-10.0

Games Played

5

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Classical

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Classical rating 2524 to 2536 over the last 12 months; peak 2561 in December 2024.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262536, 0, 0 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Oct 20262536, 0, 0 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262536, +16, 9 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262520, +3, 6 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262517, 0, 0 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262517, 0, 0 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
May 20262517, -18, 14 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Apr 20262535, 0, 0 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262535, 0, 0 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262535, +11, 7 games2502, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262524, 0, 0 games2502, -5, 11 games2424, -33, 15 games
Dec 20252524, 0, 0 games2507, 0, 0 games2457, 0, 0 games

Form · Classical

oldest → latest

Unbeaten in the last 4 games (2 wins, 2 draws), since Oct 28. Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 14 games, Jun 24 – Aug 18.

From 1,210 classical games on record, the latest on Oct 31.

Classical games since the November list

TournamentScoreChange
2026 Chinese Chess League Division A Round 1-6Jun 24 – Aug 15 of 11 games since the Nov listTPR 23213/5-10.0

Title Progress

Grandmaster (FIDE)

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 - MastersFeb 20145½/9
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2016 MastersFeb 20166½/10

Based on events we cover plus the FIDE norm registers of all federations. Norms filed elsewhere may not show up here yet.

Best wins · Classical

From 1,204 rated classical games against rated opponents, 2007–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Richard Rapport, May 2025 · TePe Sigeman 2025, 2722
2, GM Emil Sutovsky, Feb 2014 · Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 - Masters, 2663
3, GM Maxime Lagarde, Jan 2020 · Gibraltar International Chess Festival 2020 Masters, 2651

Openings · Classical

From the moves of 504 of 1,210 classical games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.d4 in 137 of 256 games, 1.e4 in 48, 1.c4 in 40.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...e5 or 1...c5, and 1.d4 with 1...Nf6 or 1...d5.

All openings (21 as White, 22 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Queen's Gambit Declined4171%
English Opening3168%
King's Indian Defense3063%
Slav Defense2075%
Catalan Opening1461%

19 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Classical

50 of 169 events

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by year

YearGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
2026392423892476
2025814524662509
20244128½24622611
20235934½24242481
20223018½24332520
20213221½24132538
2020118½23932604
2019724224312488
20185834½24112476
20177251½23462512
2016865523532455
2015845723432476
20147449½23212446
2013815823212487
2012865623462456
20111086223582408
2010603623292401
2008462723502415

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Recent opponents · Classical

IM Qi GuoWIM Tianqi YanWGM Mo ZhaiWIM Tianhao XueYige Shi

Rated near Zhongyi Tan · Classical

World

  1. #=417GM Daniel Howard Fernandez2526.0
  2. #=417GM Robert Fontaine2526.0
  3. #=417GM Zhongyi Tan2526.0
  4. #422GM Jakub Kosakowski2525.4
  5. #=423GM Daniel Forcen Esteban2525.0

China

  1. #23GM Tingjie Lei2533.2
  2. #24GM Qingnan Liu2529.0
  3. #25GM Zhongyi Tan2526.0
  4. #26Renjie Huang2516.3
  5. #27GM Yinglun Xu2516.0

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.