Career
He lives in the Netherlands, and was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Netherlands Chinese Photographic Society. Ye Rongguang competed at the 1990 World Chess Championship (Manila VI-VII, Interzonal Tournament) where he finished in 44th place with 6/13 points. He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2545 on January 1991 when he was ranked 97th in the world.
Ye has competed in the China national chess team in the Chess Olympiad three times at the Men"s Chess Olympiad (1988-1992) (games played 35: +19 −5 =11), and twice at the Men"s World Team Chess Championships (1985-1989) (games played 15: +8 −5 =2) winning bronze on 6th board in 1985.
Ye also competed twice at the Men"s Asian Team Chess Championship (1987, 1991), with an overall record of 13 games (+11 −1 =1).