Xu Yuanyuan (; born March 8, 1981) is a Chinese
WGM-titled
chess player.
Chess career
In 1995 Xu won the
World U14 Girls Chess Championship held in
São Lourenço, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In October 1997 she won the
World U16 Girls Chess Championship in
Yerevan, and in 2000, also in Yerevan, she won the
World Junior Girls U-20 Championship by a large margin – she began with seven consecutive wins and finished with a score of 11/13.
On July 11–21, 2003, Xu won the
China Women's National Chess Championship (FIDE Zone 3.3 qualifier) held in
Yongchuan District, Chongqing, with a final score of 6.5/9. In November 2003, Xu won the Chinese Women's Individual Chess Championship in
Shan Wei with a final score of 8.5/11. In April–May 2004, she came joint third in the Chinese Women's Team Chess Championship in
Jinan City
Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...
.
She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world on the January 2001 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list. Her highest position on the Top 50 Women FIDE rating list was 25th (also in January 2001).
Xu Yuanyuan's daughter
Lu Miaoyi
Lu Miaoyi (; born February 2010) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She has a peak FIDE rating of 2437, and is the second-highest-rated junior girl in the world behind Bibisara Assaubayeva. Lu is the reig ...
is one of the top rated girls under 13.
Xu Yuanyuan is an official representative of
Aigo. "
Aigo Chess
Aigo (stylized as aigo) is the trade name of Chinese consumer electronics company Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co Ltd. " is a
chess variant
A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways.
"International" or "Western" chess itself is one of a family of games which have related origins and could be co ...
created in 2004 by the president of the company. The idea consisted of introducing a piece from
Chinese chess called "cannon" into the
chess game.
Almira Skripchenko – cannons on the chessboard
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Opening repertoire
Xu Yuanyuan usually opens with white with 1. d4, and replies to it as black with the Slav. With black against 1. e4 she usually plays the Caro-Kann Defence.
See also
* Chess in China
References
External links
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** FIDE Ratin
World Top Lists
for Xu Yuanyuan
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* Chessmetricsbr>Career ratings for: Xu Yuanyuan
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1981 births
Living people
Chess woman grandmasters
Chinese female chess players
World Youth Chess Champions
World Junior Chess Champions
Chess players from Anhui
People from Hefei