Xu Jun (; born September 17, 1962) is a Chinese
chess
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player. He was awarded the title of
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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in 1994, becoming the
fourth from China.
Born in
Suzhou
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,
Jiangsu
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, Xu was
champion of China in 1983 and 1985. He has been a member of the
Chinese Olympiad team, a five times winner of the Asia Team Championship (1983–2003), the 1987 3.3 Zonal champion, the 1998 champion of China Open; the 2000–2001
champion of Asia, and was a
2002 Chess Olympiad member of Chinese team which came 5th in the final standings.
In 2012, he was awarded the title of
FIDE Senior Trainer
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.
China Chess League
Xu Jun plays for
Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...
chess club in the
China Chess League
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(CCL).
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1962 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess players from Jiangsu
Sportspeople from Suzhou
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