Xu Yuhua is a Chinese chess grandmaster, born on 29 October 1976, who was Women's World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2008. She won the 2006 championship knockout tournament in Ekaterinburg, beating Alisa Galliamova in the final, and became China's third women's world champion after Xie Jun and Zhu Chen. Earlier in her career she won the Women's World Cup in 2000 and 2002 and is listed as a winner of the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2002 and 2004. She lost the world title in 2008, when she was knocked out in the second round of the next knockout event, and she has not played a FIDE-rated game since 2011. She is also a law graduate and holds a master's degree in Chinese linguistics from Peking University.
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She was China's third women's world chess champion after Xie Jun and Zhu Chen
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Women's World Cup winner (2000, 2002) Winner of the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2002 and 2004 World women's champion (2006-2008)
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Yuhua won the Women's World Chess Championship knock-out tournament in Ekaterinburg, Russia
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IM Xu Yuhua was the 11th women's world chess champion, earning the title in a 2006 tournament.
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