Xu Yuanyuan

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Xu is the family name here, Yuanyuan is the first name.

Xu Yuanyuan (chin. 徐媛媛; born March 8, 1981 ) is a Chinese chess player . She has been the Women's Grand Master (WGM) since 2003 .

successes

In October 1997 she became youth world champion in the U16 age group in Yerevan . In 2000 she won the U20 world chess championship for the female youth of the world chess federation FIDE in Yerevan in the Tigran Petrosyan chess house by a large margin and a result of 11 out of 13. She started with seven wins, then lost in the 8th round, but found afterwards back to her outstanding form at this tournament. In July 2003, she won the Yongchuan Women's Zone Tournament . She was Chinese women singles champion in November 2003 in Shanwei , in November 2004 in Lanzhou at the following Chinese women singles championship she was third. The first edition of the Chinese team championship she won in 2005 with the Beijing Patriots .

She likes to play the Caro-Kann defense with the black pieces .

Xu Yuanyuan is an official representative of the AIGO chess inventor. AIGO is a type of chess with two additional traditional Chinese pieces in the shape of a cannon. The name AIGO is a product name of the Chinese consumer electronics company Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co., Ltd. which sponsors this variant of the chess game.

Her Elo rating is 2317 (as of May 2020), her best Elo rating was 2437 in January 2001. At that time, she led the U20 female world rankings and was 25th in the women's world rankings.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessjoy (Chinese)
personal data
SURNAME Xu Yuanyuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 许 婳 婳 (Chinese); Yuanyuan, Xu (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1981