Xu Yuanyuan

Xu Yuanyuan
Full name Xu Yuanyuan
Country  China
Born (1981-03-08) March 8, 1981[1]
China
Title Woman Grandmaster (WGM)
FIDE rating 2322 (April 2009)
Peak rating 2437 (January 2001)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xu.

Xu Yuanyuan (Chinese: 徐媛媛;[2] born March 8, 1981)[3] is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player.

Chess career

In October 1997 Xu won the World U16 Girls Chess Championship in Yerevan, and in 2000, also in Yerevan, she won by a large margin (with a score of 11/13—she began with seven consecutive wins until a loss in the 8th round but continued after that quite strongly) the World Junior Girls U-20 Championship.

In 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.[4][5][6] In November 2003, Xu won the Chinese Women's Individual Chess Championship in Shan Wei with a final score of 8.5/11.[7] In April–May 2004, she came joint third in the Chinese Women's Team Chess Championship in Jinan City.[8]

She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world on the January 2001 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list.[9] Her highest position on the Top 50 Women FIDE rating list was 25th (also on January 2001).[10]

Xu Yuanyuan is an official representative of Aigo. "Aigo Chess" is a chess variant created in 2004 by the president of the company.[11] The idea consisted of introducing a piece from Chinese chess called "cannon" into the chess game.[12]

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.

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