Xu Yuanyuan (;第二届北京市大学生国际象棋团体赛隆重开幕 born March 8, 1981)中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库 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. Some sources on this event misspell her name as Xu Xuun Yuan. 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.Look Up (Finger) Player ChinaWomen2003THE WEEK IN CHESS 455 28 July 2003 by Mark CrowtherFIDE Period: October 2003 Xu, Yuanyuan In November 2003, Xu won the Chinese Women's Individual Chess Championship in Shan Wei with a final score of 8.5/11.FIDE Period: January 2004 Xu, Yuanyuan In April–May 2004, she came joint third in the Chinese Women's Team Chess Championship in Jinan City.FIDE Period: July 2004 Xu, Yuanyuan
She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world on the January 2001 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list.FIDE Archive: Top 20 Girls January 2001 Her highest position on the Top 50 Women FIDE rating list was 25th (also in January 2001).FIDE World Top Chess Player: Xu Yuanyuan
Xu Yuanyuan's daughter, IM Lu Miaoyi, represented China at the 45th Chess Olympiad at the age of 14.
Xu Yuanyuan is an official representative of Aigo. "Aigo Chess" is a chess variant created in 2004 by the president of the company.AIGO chess The idea consisted of introducing a piece from Chinese chess called "cannon" into the chess game.Almira Skripchenko – cannons on the chessboard
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
FIDE Rating World Top Lists for Xu Yuanyuan
Chessmetrics Career ratings for: Xu Yuanyuan