Xu Yuhua (chess player)

Xu Yuhua (chess player)

Infobox Chess player
playername = Xu Yuhua


caption =
birthname = Xu Yuhua
country = CHN
datebirth = birth date and age|1976|10|29
placebirth = Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster (GM) Woman Grandmaster (WGM)
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion = 2006 - 2008
rating = 2483
(No. 20 on the July 2008 FIDE rating list for women)
peakrating = 2517 (April 2006)

Xu Yuhua (Chinese: 许昱华/許昱華; Pinyin: Xǔ Yùhua; born October 29, 1976 in Jinhua, Zhejiang) [ [http://www.chessinchina.net/html/CHNrating05.8.htm 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 ] ] is a Chinese chess Grandmaster and former Women's World Champion (2006-2008). She is China's third women's world chess champion after Xie Jun and Zhu Chen.

In 2006, she became China's 21st Grandmaster.

Education

She is a law graduate. [ [http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90779/6265060.html People's Daily Online - Three Chinese chess players qualified for men's World Cup ] ]

Career

Xu holds the International Grandmaster title. On March 25, 2006 she won the Women's World Chess Championship knock-out tournament in Ekaterinburg, Russia, defeating Russian IM Alisa Galliamova in the final by taking 2.5 points on the third game of a four game match for the title. The knockout event had 64 participants, with both former world champion Zhu Chen and reigning world champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Xu was three months pregnant at the time. [ [http://home.hccnet.nl/jhw.heesen/ Columns (bf1) ] ] She was eliminated in the second round of the Women's World Chess Championship 2008.

Titles

Major titles include: [ [http://www.northuralscup.ru/2008/participantseng.shtml North Urals Cup 2008] - Participants]

*Winner of Zonal tournament (1993, 2001)
*World Cup winner (2000, 2002)
*Winner of the World team Olympiad (2000, 2002, 2004)
*World women's champion (2006-2008)

ee also

*Chess in China

References

External links

*Xu Yuhua's [http://blog.sina.com.cn/xuyuhua Blog] (sina.com)
*fide|id=8600635|name=Xu Yuhua
*chessgames player|49535
* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4789 Interview with Xu Yuhua] North Urals Cup, 25 July 2008


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