Peng Zhaoqin is a female Chinese

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...

 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player, who has resided in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 since 1996. She has the FIDE title of International Grandmaster

International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

 (full GM), which was awarded in October 2004, and has an Elo rating of 2455 (October 2008).

Peng Zhaoqin has won the Dutch Women's Championship an unprecedented thirteen times, landing her first title in 1997 and then winning twelve more in an uninterrupted sequence from 2000 to 2011. In the 2011 Dutch Women's Championship, Peng won nine games out of ten, placing a full three points ahead of her closest competitor. She is currently the Netherlands' female number one.

External links

• Complete Chess match Tea Lanchava vs Peng Zhaoqin
• The BDO Chess Tournament 2006 — a report by Peng Zhaoqin