Shen Yang (Chinese: 沈 阳; born January 23, 1989 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese Woman Grand Master chess player. In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. In February 2006 she gained her second IM norm in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open. In the May-June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the Women's section. In October 2006, she won the Girls World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia. In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia. A notable game occurred in the World Chess Team Championship, held in Beersheba, Israel on October-November 2005, where Shen - then rated 2326 - managed to defeat 2652-rated Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky. Shen, as of December 2007, was ranked 30th in the Top 50 Women, and 7th in the Top 20 Girls in the FIDE ranking lists. She gained the Woman Grandmaster title in 2006. In the Russian Team Championship Shen plays for the women's team of ACADEMY Tomsk on Board 2.