Huang Qian

Huang Qian is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She won the Chinese [Chess Championship|Chinese Women's Chess Championship] in 2012 and the Asian Women's Chess Championship in 2013. Huang competed in the Women's [World Chess Championship] in Women's [World Chess Championship 2001|2001], Women's World [Chess Championship 2004|2004], 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017.

Career

Huang was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2004 Women's Chess Olympiad in Calvià.
In 2007, along with Zhao Xue, Hou Yifan, Ruan Lufei and Shen Yang, she also won with the Chinese team the first Women's World [Team Chess Championship] in Yekaterinburg. She scored of 4/4.
Huang was awarded the Woman Grandmaster title in March 2008. Her three norms required for the title were achieved at:

36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià, Spain October 14–31, 2004; score 7.5/10
China Women's Individual Championship Group A in Chongqing, China June 6–19, 2007; score 6.5/10
12th Asian Women Individual Championship in Tehran, Iran September 3–11, 2007; score 5.5/9

In 2013, she won the Zhonghai Huashan Cup for Women Stars, a rapidplay women's round-robin tournament held in Huayin, on tiebreak over Viktorija Cmilyte with a score of 4½/7, half point ahead of Tatiana Kosintseva and Women's World Champion Anna Ushenina. Huang Qian played in the Women World Rapid Championship in Riyadh 2017 and realised her best results with the black pieces. In 2019, she won the Yinzhou Cup in Ningbo, China for women.
Huang Qian plays for China Mobile Group Chongqing Company Ltd chess club in the China Chess League.

Personal life

Huang Qian is List of [chess families|married] to chess grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi.