Wang Lei (chess player)

Wang Lei (Chinese: 王蕾; pinyin: Wáng Lěi; born February 4, 1975)[1] is a Chinese chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was in the FIDE Top 50 Women rating list from 2000 to 2003.[2] Wang is a four-time Chinese women's champion (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001). In 1996 she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in León, Spain.[3]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang.
Wang Lei
CountryChina
Born (1975-02-04) February 4, 1975
Shanghai, China
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1996)
FIDE rating2484 (October 2023)
Peak rating2512 (October 2001)
Peak rankingNo. 5 ranked woman (October 2001)

Wang competed for the China national chess team four times at the Women's Chess Olympiads (1990, 1996, 1998, 2000) with an overall record of 32 games played (+21, =8, -3), and once at the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship (1999) with an overall record of 4 games played (+3, =0, -1).[4] She was also on the Chinese women's team in the first China - Russia Chess Summit.[5]

References
  1. 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
  2. Top lists records - Wang Lei. FIDE.
  3. León 1996 - 4° Campeonato Mundial Universitário Feminino. BrasilBase.
  4. Wang Lei team chess record at OlimpBase.org
  5. "The Week in Chess 357". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2019-02-09.



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