Zhang Zhong
| Zhang Zhong | |
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| Country |
 People's Republic of China Singapore
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| Born |
5 September 1978 Chongqing, China |
| Title | Grandmaster (1998) |
| FIDE rating | 2641 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2667 (July 2001) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 章鍾 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 章钟 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhāng Zhōng |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Jang Jong |
| Wade–Giles | Chang¹ Chung¹ |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Jhāng Jhōng |
| Yale Romanization | Jāng Jūng |
| IPA | [ʈʂáŋ ʈʂʊ́ŋ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jeung Jung |
| IPA | [tsœ́ːŋ tsʊ́ŋ] |
| Jyutping | Zoeng¹ Zung¹ |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Chiong-Chêng |
Zhang Zhong (simplified Chinese: 章钟; traditional Chinese: 章鍾; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōng; born 5 September 1978 in Chongqing) is a Chinese-born Singaporean chess grandmaster, a twice Chinese champion and the 2005 Asian champion.
In 1998, he became China's 9th Grandmaster.
Zhang Zhong finished second at the World Junior Chess Championship twice, in 1996 and 1998. He won the Chinese Chess Championship in 2001 and 2003. In 2002 he scored 8.5/12 points at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled and won the 7th World University Chess Championship in Ulaanbaatar. Zhang Zhong was clear first with a score of 11/13 at the Corus B tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2003, three points ahead of his nearest rival. This result qualified him for the prestigious main Corus A tournament in 2004, in which he scored 5/13. He won the 2005 Asian Chess Championship to qualify for the FIDE World Cup held that year, where he beat Mikhail Kobalia in the first round, but lost to Ivan Sokolov in the second.
In 2007 he transferred federations to represent Singapore. In 2008, he won ASEAN Chess Circuit Tournament in Tarakan. In 2014, he tied for 1st–3rd with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Le Quang Liem, placing second on tiebreak, at the 4th HDBank Cup in Ho Chi Minh City, and won the 11th IGB Dato' Athur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur.
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