Tin Jingyao

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Tin Jingyao
Country Singapore
Born (2000-07-13) July 13, 2000 (age 24)
Title Grandmaster (2022)
FIDE   rating 2588 (October 2024)
Peak rating 2598 (January 2023)

Tin Jingyao (born July 13, 2000) is a Singaporean chess grandmaster. He is a five-time winner of the Singapore Chess Championship and has represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad.

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In August 2022, Tin was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE [1] and became the youngest player in Singapore to achieve the title. [2] He is also the highest-rated Singaporean player.

Early life and education

As of October 2022, Tin is currently pursuing a degree in computing at the National University of Singapore. [3]

Chess career

Tin began playing chess in 2008. In 2010, Tin represented Singapore in the 11th ASEAN Chess Championships (Open U10 category) and won the only gold medal for Singapore. [4]

Tin achieved his first Grandmaster norm in 2015 by winning the Asean Under-20 chess tournament and was directly awarded the title of International Master. [2]

He has won the Singapore Chess Championship five times; in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. He also represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 (5.5/10 on board 4), [5] 2016 (5/10 on board 3), [6] 2022 [7] (7/10 on board 1) and 2024.

He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was defeated by Timur Gareyev on tiebreaks in the first round. [8]

Tin achieved his third Grandmaster norm at the Hanoi Grandmaster Chess Tournament in May 2022. [2]

In December 2022, Tin finished second place in the III Elllobregat Open Chess tournament where he defeated Hans Niemann in the seventh round of the tournament. [9] [10] [11]

In August 2023, Tin caused an upset by defeating super-grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (who was the tournament's ninth seed) in the second round of the 2023 Chess World Cup. Tin advanced to the third round of a Chess World Cup for the first time, where he was defeated by Rasmus Svane. [12] [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Title Applications – 2022 2nd FIDE Council". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  2. 1 2 3 Lee, David (2022-05-29). "Chess player set to become Singapore's youngest grandmaster at 21". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  3. ↑ "Tin Jingyao: Master of the Game". NUS Computing. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  4. ↑ Lum, Amos; Urcan, Olimpiu G. (2010-07-01). "Tin Jingyao of Nanyang Primary – Master chess whiz at just age 9". RED SPORTS. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  5. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 41st Chess Olympiad, Tromsø 2014, Singapore". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  6. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 42nd Chess Olympiad, Baku 2016, Singapore". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  7. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 44th Chess Olympiad, Chennai 2022, Singapore". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
  8. ↑ "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup-results.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  9. ↑ Chia, Laura (2022-12-07). "Chess: Singaporean Tin Jingyao beats American Hans Niemann in Spanish tournament". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  10. ↑ Chia, Laura (2022-12-09). "Chess: Beating Niemann, finishing second in Spain event was 'highlight of my year', says S'pore's Tin Jingyao". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  11. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – III Elllobregat Open Chess Grupo A". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  12. ↑ "Carlsen, Magnus vs. Pantsulaia, Levan - FIDE World Cup 2023". chess24.com. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  13. ↑ Tham, Davina (8 Aug 2023). "How a risky move helped Singapore chess grandmaster Tin Jingyao to an upset win". CNA. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
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