GM Bobby Cheng Full name Bobby Cheng Born Mar 20, 1997 (age 28) Place of birth Federation Australia Profiles #181 World Ranking 2596 Classical 2507 Rapid 2481 Blitz Rating Bio Bobby Cheng is an Australian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup. Most Played Openings White Pieces Catalan Opening: Closed (18 games) King's Indian Defense: Makogonov Variation (15 games) Queen's Gambit Declined: Catalan Opening (11 games) Queen's Gambit Declined (9 games) Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (8 games) Black Pieces French Defense: Winawer, Advance Variation (9 games) Queen's Pawn Opening: English Defense (8 games) Modern Defense: Standard Line (6 games) English Opening: Agincourt Defense (5 games) Modern Defense with 1.e4 (5 games) Games Players Result Moves Year Bobby Cheng (2594) Emils Steiners (2237) 1-0 32 2025 Bobby Cheng (2594) Borna Derakhshani (2355) 1-0 30 2025 Bobby Cheng (2594) Marcos Camacho Collados (2459) 1-0 45 2025 Bobby Cheng (2594) Matthew J Wadsworth (2489) ½-½ 46 2025 Sanjit S Kumar (2074) Bobby Cheng (2594) 0-1 49 2025 Lorenzo Fava (2269) Bobby Cheng (2594) 0-1 25 2025 Luis Engel (2549) Bobby Cheng (2594) ½-½ 59 2025 Jovanka Houska (2344) Bobby Cheng (2594) ½-½ 38 2025 Boris Chatalbashev (2489) Bobby Cheng (2594) ½-½ 31 2025 Bobby Cheng (2571) Pawel Teclaf (2563) 1-0 49 2024 Show All Games