Bai Jinshi

Bai Jinshi (Chinese: 白金石; born May 18, 1999) is a Chinese chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2015.[2]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Bai.
Bai Jinshi
CountryChina
Born (1999-05-18) May 18, 1999
Jilin, China
TitleGrandmaster (2009)[1]
Years active2010-present
FIDE rating2585 (October 2023)
Peak rating2618 (January 2020)

Career

Born in Jilin,[3] Bai won the Under 10 section of the World Youth Chess Championships in 2009.[4] He played for China A team in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad in 2013. Bai won the London Chess Classic Open (jointly with Kamil Dragun) in 2014,[5] the Cannes Open[6] and the Groningen Chess Festival (on tiebreak from Sergei Tiviakov) in 2016.[7] In April 2018, he finished tied for first place with Wen Yang in the Chinese Chess Championship and ended in second place on tiebreak score.[8][9] In December, he won the North American Open in Las Vegas, US.[10] In the same year, Bai played for the Chinese team in the China-Russia match,[11] the Asian Nations Cup,[12] where China won the bronze medal,[13] and the India-China Summit match.[14] In March 2019, Bai won the Spring Chess Classic B tournament in St Louis, US.[15]

References
  1. "FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO)".
  2. "List of titles approved by the Executive Board in Abu Dhabi, UAE" Archived 2018-08-04 at the Wayback Machine. FIDE. 2015-09-24.
  3. IM title application (PDF). FIDE.
  4. "World Youth Championship in Antalya". ChessBase. 2009-11-24.
  5. Pein, Malcolm (2014-12-19). "Two take Classic Open: Kamil Dragun and Chinese junior Jinshi Bai share win". The Daily Telegraph.
  6. "16-years-old GM Bai Jinshi wins Cannes Open". Chessdom. 2016-02-29.
  7. Fischer, Johannes (2017-01-03). "Chinese talent Jinshi Bai wins Groningen". ChessBase.
  8. Crowther, Mark (2018-04-29). "Chinese Championships 2018". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  9. "Yang Wen wins Chinese Championship 2018". Chessdom. 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  10. "GM Bai Jinshi winner of North American Open". Chessdom. 2019-01-01. Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
  11. "China-Russia match in Qinhuangdao". Chessdom. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  12. Shah, Sagar (2018-08-02). "Asian Nations Cup 2018: Indian men draw with China, Vietnam beat our women's team". ChessBase India. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  13. "Iran Men, Chinese Women win Asian Nations Cup". fide.com. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  14. Pai, Aditya (2018-10-26). "India wins the 3rd India China Summit". ChessBase India. Retrieved 2018-12-19-
  15. Yermolinsky, Alex (2019-03-11). "Xiong springs to classic first". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2019-03-12.


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