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Xu Yuhua
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Xu Yuhua (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese:

; pinyin: X Yhua; born October 29, 1976) is a
Chinese chess Grandmaster and former Women's World
Champion (20062008). She is China's third women's world
chess champion after Xie Jun and Zhu Chen.
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.[2] She became China's 22nd
Grandmaster by winning the Women's World Chess
Championship 2006.[3]

Xu Yuhua
Full name

Xu Yuhua

Country

China

Born

October 29, 1976 [1]

Jinhua, Zhejiang, China

Title

Grandmaster (2006)
Woman Grandmaster (2001)

Women's
World
Champion

200608

FIDE rating

2465
(http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?
event=8600635) (March 2015)
(No. 31 ranked woman in the November

She won the 2nd FIDE Women Grand Prix, Nanjing, 27

September 9 October 2009.
Xu Yuhua plays for Zhejiang chess club in the China Chess
League (CCL).[4]

2012 FIDE World Rankings)

Peak rating

2517 (April 2006)

She is a law graduate.[5]

Contents
1 Titles
2 Education
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Titles
Major titles include:[6]
Winner of Zonal tournament (1993, 2001)
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World Cup winner (2000, 2002)

Winner of the World team Olympiad (2000, 2002, 2004)
World women's champion (20062008)

Education
Education Degrees include:
Master of Literature, Chinese Linguistics, Peking University, 2011
Bachelor of Law, Jurisprudence, Peking University, 2004

See also
Chess in China

References
1. (http://www.chessinchina.net/html/CHNrating05.8.htm)
2. Columns (bf1) (http://home.hccnet.nl/jhw.heesen/)
3. "Xu Yuhua is the eleventh Women's World Champion" (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3004).
chessbase.com. 25 March 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
4. http://ccl.sports.cn/
5. People's Daily Online Three Chinese chess players qualified for men's World Cup
(http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90779/6265060.html)
6. North Urals Cup 2008 (http://www.northuralscup.ru/2008/participantseng.shtml) Participants

External links
Xu Yuhua's Official Blog (http://blog.sina.com.cn/xuyuhua)
Xu Yuhua (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=49535) player profile and games at
Chessgames.com
Interview with Xu Yuhua (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4789) North Urals Cup, 25
July 2008
Preceded by
Antoaneta Stefanova

Women's World Chess Champion

20062008

Succeeded by
Alexandra Kosteniuk

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