Zhao Xue

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhao.
Zhao Xue
Full name Zhao Xue
Country China
Born April 6, 1985
Jinan, Shandong, China
Title Grandmaster (2008)
Woman Grandmaster (2001)
FIDE rating 2519 (May 2015) (No. 5 ranked woman in the November 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2579(September 2013)

Zhao Xue (Chinese: 赵雪; born April 6, 1985 in Jinan, Shandong)[1] is a Chinese chess player. In 2008, she became China's 24th Grandmaster.

Career

Her greatest success so far in an individual event was winning the 2002 Under-20 World Junior Girls Chess Championship, beating Humpy Koneru on tie-break.

In 2007, she took second place in the women's supertournament North Urals Cup with a score of 6/9, lost to former world champion Zhu Chen on tiebreak.

In August–September 2008 at the Women's World Chess Championship she was knocked out in the second round by compatriot Shen Yang ½-1½.

In December 2010 she took part in the Women's World Chess Championship. The tournament was based on a knockout format, and she managed to continue on until the semi-finals where she lost 1½-2½ to her compatriot Ruan Lufei.

As of 2011, she is still an active female chess player for China. She is a participant for the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012, qualifying based on her stellar results of the Women's World Chess Championship 2010. In the Shenzhen leg, she finished with a score of 6/11 at joint 5-6 place along with Ruan Lufei, earning her 75 points in the Grand Prix.[2]

In October 2011 Zhao Xue won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix tournament at Nalchik, Russia with the massive score of 9.5/11.

GM title

In 2008 she gained the Grandmaster title. Her GM norms were achieved at:[3]

National team

Zhao Xue has played an important part in the last two victories of China in the Women's Chess Olympiad.

She as a first reserve scored 11/12 (performance rating of 2723) on board 4 in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled in 2002. She has lost just one game (to Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant) on that occasion and that remains the only Olympiad game she has lost in her three Olympiad appearances.

She scored 10/12 on board 3 (TPR 2603) winning an individual gold in 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià in 2004; and scored 10/13 on board 1 (TPR 2615) winning an individual gold at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin in 2006.

Zhao played first board on a slightly weaker Chinese women's team in the World Teams Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.

She led China to victory in the 2007 Women's World Team Championship with 6½/8 (TPR 2693).

China Chess League

Zhao Xue plays for Beijing chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[4]

Honors since 2011

Individual

Team

See also

References

  1. ↑ "中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库". Chessinchina.net. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  2. ↑ "GP - Shenzhen - GP - Shenzhen". Shenzhen2011.fide.com. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  3. ↑ "World Chess Federation". FIDE. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  4. ↑ "雅戈尔杯中国国际象棋甲级联赛官方网站". Ccl.sports.cn. Retrieved 2011-10-20.

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