Ni Hua
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World Mind Sports Games, 2008
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| Full name |
Simplified Chinese: 倪华 Traditional Chinese: 倪華 |
| Country | China |
| Born |
May 31, 1983 Shanghai, China |
| Title | Grandmaster (2003) |
| FIDE rating | 2674 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2724 (April 2009) |
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Representing  China
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| Asian Games | ||
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2010 Guangzhou | Men's Team |
Ni Hua (born May 31, 1983 in Shanghai) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the national team captain. He is three-time national champion. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. On April 2008, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating mark, after Wang Yue.
He was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 41st Chess Olympiad.
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 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 the 2001 China-USA Summit Match, Ni Hua scored notable victories against Dmitry Schneider and Hikaru Nakamura.
Ni was awarded the Grandmaster title in February 2003.
In August 2004, Ni won the 1st Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 he beat Evgeny Vladimirov in round one, but was put out by his compatriot Ye Jiangchuan in the second round.
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