Education
Zhang Zhong finished second at the World Junior Chess Championship twice, in 1996 and 1998.
章钟, 章鍾
Zhang Zhong finished second at the World Junior Chess Championship twice, in 1996 and 1998.
In 1998, he became China"s 9th Grandmaster. This result qualified him for the prestigious main Corus A tournament in 2004, in which he scored 5/13. In 2007 he transferred federations to represent Singapore.
Zhang Zhong plays for China Mobile Group Chongqing Company Limited chess club in the (CCL).
He won the Chinese Chess Championship in 2001 and 2003. In 2002 he scored 8.5/12 points at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled and won the 7th World University Chess Championship in Ulaanbaatar. He won the 2005 Asian Chess Championship to qualify for the FIDE World Cup held that year, where he beat Mikhail Kobalia in the first round, but lost to Ivan Sokolov in the second. In 2008, he won Association of Southeast Asian Nations Chess Circuit Tournament in Tarakan. In 2014, he tied for 1st–3rd with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Le Quang Liem, placing second on tiebreak, at the 4th HDBank Cup in Ho Chi Minh City, and won the 11th IGB Dato" Athur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur.
