Master profile
Wang Linna
王琳娜
- Games
- 351
- Years of the dated games
- 1994–2008
- Archive record
- 158W · 137D · 56L
National titles: Women's national individual champion: 1997, 2000, 2009, 2014
The player
王琳娜 (Wang Linna) was born in Suihua, Heilongjiang, in 1980, joined the Heilongjiang chess institute in 1991 and played her first national events in 1993. She won the women's national individual championship in 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2014, the Asian championship in 1998 and 2010, and the Asian masters in 2003. She was world women's champion in 2001 and 2015 and won the women's title at the 2021 National Games. After 胡明 (Hu Ming), she was the second woman to hold the world, Asian and national titles. She holds the women's grandmaster title and was one of the three world champions trained by 王嘉良 (Wang Jialiang).
In the archive she scored 71.5% as Red, and 76.5% over 66 games with the Pointing Finger, her best opening. Zhang Guofeng was her most frequent opponent, and she leads that series by 18 wins to 17, with 10 draws, in 45 games.
The game below, against Zhang Guofeng, comes from her years at the top of women's xiangqi in China. If you want to follow one long rivalry from start to finish, look up their games in the archive.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 181 games as Red, 170 as Black |
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| Score | 71.5% as Red, 57.1% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (108 games) · Screen Horses as Black (73 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Pointing Finger as Red: 76.5% over 66 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Zhang Guofeng (45 games) |
| Longest game | 293 plies against Miao Liming |
Wang Linna - Zhang Guofeng, 2000
2000 National Individual Championship · 2000 · Zhang Guofeng (red) vs Wang Linna (black)
This game brings together two of the strongest women players of their era at the national individual championship. Wang Linna, a multiple women's national champion, has Black against her great rival Zhang Guofeng, and both sides keep many pieces almost to the end.
A pair of chariots is traded on move nine, and more exchanges follow around move eighteen. Even so, each side still has a chariot, two horses and a cannon at the end, so the ending stays complex. Wang's pieces work together better, and she converts it. Play it through to see how she keeps them coordinated while the material stays close.
Black won · 45 moves
The starting position.
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