Tin Jingyao
CountrySingapore
Born (2000-07-13) July 13, 2000
TitleGrandmaster (2022)
FIDE rating2563 (January 2024)
Peak rating2598 (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 represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 and 2016.

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] and 2016 (5/10 on board 3).[6]

He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was defeated by Timur Gareyev on tiebreaks in the first round.[7]

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.[8][9][10]

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.[11][12]

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. ↑ "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup-results.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  8. ↑ Chia, Laura (2022-12-07). "Chess: Singaporean Tin Jingyao beats American Hans Niemann in Spanish tournament". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – III Elllobregat Open Chess Grupo A". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  11. ↑ "Carlsen, Magnus vs. Pantsulaia, Levan - FIDE World Cup 2023". chess24.com. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  12. ↑ 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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