{{Short description|Chinese chess player (born 1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Family name hatnote|Zhang|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox chess player |image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> |country = China |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|9|18}} |birth_place = Ningbo, China |death_date = |death_place = |title = FIDE Master |rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/8600260/chart 2386] (April 2013) |peakrating = 2484 (July 2000) |FideID = 8600260 }} '''Zhang Weida''' ({{zh|c=张伟达}}; born 18 September 1949 in Ningbo)<ref name=coaches>{{cite web |url=https://sports.sina.cn/sa/2004-09-17/detail-ikftpnnz1316686.d.html |title=人大附中国家国际象棋少年队教练员简历一览 |language=zh |publisher=Sina Sports |date=2004-09-17 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.cnnb.com.cn/system/2023/05/03/030481639.shtml |title=宁波国际象棋奖金最高业余赛事开战 |language=zh |website=中国宁波网 |date=2023-05-03 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> is a chess player and coach from China. A FIDE Master and Senior Trainer, he is best known for coaching the Chinese team to four consecutive gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad between 1998 and 2004.
==Playing career==
===Domestic play=== Zhang Weida first competed in the Chinese Chess Championship in 1966.<ref name=coaches/> In the China Chess League, he represented Heilongjiang from 1978, Zhejiang from 1980, and Shanghai from the end of 1986.<ref name=coaches/>
===International play=== Zhang Weida played for the Chinese national chess team at the Chess Olympiad twice. In the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires, China's first appearance at the event, he won a silver medal playing on the second reserve board, scoring five wins and three draws with no losses.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olimpbase.org/1978/1978in.html |title=23rd Chess Olympiad: Buenos Aires 1978 |website=OlimpBase |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> His appearance as China's lone reserve player at the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne was less successful, losing all three of his games.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/iois8qob.html |title=Zhang Weida |website=OlimpBase |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> He earned the FIDE Master title in 1989.<ref>{{cite book |last=Di Felice|first=Gino|year=2017|title=Chess International Titleholders, 1950–2016 |page=364 |publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-7132-1}}</ref>
==Coaching career== Zhang was deputy head coach of the national men's chess team from 1987 to 2017.<ref name=interview>{{cite web |url=https://sports.sina.cn/others/qipai/2022-10-26/detail-imqmmthc2184617.d.html |title=张伟达：持续为国际象棋发光发热 值得投入一生 |language=zh |publisher=Sina Sports |date=2022-10-26 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> In the 1991–1993 Women's World Chess Championship cycle, he coached Peng Zhaoqin, Wang Pin and Qin Kanying at the 1991 Interzonal, all of whom qualified for the Candidates tournament.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sports.sohu.com/08/25/sports_news163712508.shtml |title=国际象棋：老大！--著名棋手王频眼中的秦侃滢 |language=zh |publisher=Sohu |date=2001-11-29 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> He started as the head coach of the women's team in 1994, leading them to their first silver medal at the 1996 Chess Olympiad, and then four consecutive gold medals from 1998 to 2004.<ref name=interview/> He has been licensed as a FIDE Senior Trainer since 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/8600260 |title=Zhang, Weida |publisher=FIDE |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref>
==See also== *Chess in China
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Chessgames player|id=47182|name=Zhang Weida}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Weida}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Chinese chess players Category:Chess coaches Category:Chess FIDE Masters Category:Chess Olympiad competitors Category:Sportspeople from Ningbo Category:National team coaches {{PRChina-chess-bio-stub}}