







The Most Famous
Chess Players from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 23 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 5th most number of Chess Players behind United States and Hungary.
Top 10 Chinese Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Chinese Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Chinese Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Chinese Chess Players.
- #1

Xie Jun
b. 1970
HPI 51.9641 langsChinese chess player
- #2

Zhu Chen
b. 1976
HPI 51.5642 langsChinese-Qatari chess player
- #3

Ding Liren
b. 1992
HPI 51.4158 langsChinese chess grandmaster
- #4

Xu Yuhua
b. 1976
HPI 48.4837 langsChinese chess player
- #5

Ju Wenjun
b. 1991
HPI 46.5746 langsChinese chess player
- #6

Hou Yifan
b. 1994
HPI 46.1550 langsChinese chess player
- #7

Ye Jiangchuan
b. 1960
HPI 44.8515 langsChinese chess player
- #8

Wang Yue
b. 1987
HPI 44.7925 langsChinese chess player
- #9

Qin Kanying
b. 1974
HPI 43.8216 langsChinese chess player
- #10

Peng Zhaoqin
b. 1968
HPI 43.2917 langsChinese-born Dutch chess player
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Chinese Chess Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.













