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Xu Yuanyuan
Xu Yuanyuan with her daughter in 2023
Country	China
Born	(1981-03-08) March 8, 1981 (age 43)^[1] Hefei, Anhui, China
Title	Woman Grandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating	2316 (May 2022)
Peak rating	2437 (January 2001)

Xu Yuanyuan (Chinese: 徐媛媛;^[2] born March 8, 1981)^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5]^[6]^[7] In November 2003, Xu won the Chinese Women's Individual Chess Championship in Shan Wei with a final score of 8.5/11.^[8] In April–May 2004, she came joint third in the Chinese Women's Team Chess Championship in Jinan City.^[9]

She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world on the January 2001 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list.^[10] Her highest position on the Top 50 Women FIDE rating list was 25th (also in January 2001).^[11]

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.^[12] The idea consisted of introducing a piece from Chinese chess called "cannon" into the chess game.^[13]

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.

References

^ Rating data for player Xu, Yuanyuan, (CHN) Archived August 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ 第二届北京市大学生国际象棋团体赛隆重开幕
^ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
^ "世界青年冠军徐媛媛与清华学子交流"国象精神"" [World Youth Champion Xu Yuanyuan shares "chess spirit" with Tsinghua students] (in Chinese). Xinhua News Agency. September 30, 2006. Archived from the original on May 20, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2016. Some sources on this event misspell her name as Xu Xuun Yuan.
^ Look Up (Finger) Player ChinaWomen2003
^ THE WEEK IN CHESS 455 28 July 2003 by Mark Crowther
^ FIDE Period: October 2003 Archived June 2, 2004, at the Wayback Machine Xu, Yuanyuan
^ FIDE Period: January 2004 Archived January 2, 2005, at the Wayback Machine Xu, Yuanyuan
^ FIDE Period: July 2004 Archived May 12, 2005, at the Wayback Machine Xu, Yuanyuan
^ FIDE Archive: Top 20 Girls January 2001 Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ FIDE World Top Chess Player: Xu Yuanyuan Archived April 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ AIGO chess
^ Almira Skripchenko – cannons on the chessboard

External links

Xu, Yuanyuan rating card at FIDE
- FIDE Rating World Top Lists for Xu Yuanyuan
Xu, Yuanyuan player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Chessmetrics Career ratings for: Xu Yuanyuan

Preceded by Wang Pin	Women's Chinese Chess Champion 2003	Succeeded by Qin Kanying

v t e Chess in China
Governing bodies	Chinese Chess Association China Qiyuan All-China Sports Federation General Administration of Sport
Competitions	Pearl Spring Tournament National League National Team Results National Championships Continental Championships Olympiads World Mind Sports Games
Grandmasters (in chronological order)	Ye Rongguang Ye Jiangchuan Xie Jun Xu Jun Wang Zili Peng Xiaomin Liang Jinrong Wu Shaobin* Zhang Zhong Bu Xiangzhi Wu Wenjin Zhang Pengxiang Zhu Chen* Li Shilong Ni Hua Liang Chong Yu Shaoteng Wang Yue Zhao Jun Wang Hao Zhou Jianchao Xu Yuhua Li Chao Zhao Xue Wen Yang Hou Yifan Zhou Weiqi Wang Rui Yu Yangyi Ding Liren Xiu Deshun Lu Shanglei Yu Ruiyuan Ma Qun Gao Rui Zeng Chongsheng Wei Yi Ju Wenjun Fang Yuxiang Liu Qingnan Bai Jinshi Lin Chen Wan Yunguo Lei Tingjie Tan Zhongyi Xu Yinglun Xu Xiangyu Liu Yan Li Di Xu Yi Dai Changren Zhu Jiner Peng Xiongjian Xiao Tong
*currently not representing China FIDE top 100 country list

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