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GM/WGM Zhao Xue from China (2531, #7 in the world among women) has joined the Canadian Open.
She will also give a simul on one of the early days of the event.
She will also give a simul on one of the early days of the event.
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Re: #7 Woman in the world joins the Canadian Open
Cool! :)
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Re: #7 Woman in the world joins the Canadian Open
Here are some facts I have gathered for you both concerning her:
Here are some facts about GM Zhao Xue:
Zhao Xue
Firstly here is a link to a photo of :
http://www.chesspics.com/albums/phot...754ZhaoXue.jpg
She was born on April 6, 1985 in Jinan, Shandong, so she is currently 24 years of age. Her current rating is 2531 (the new FIDE Ratings list was just released). This rating makes her the seventh highest-rated female chess player in the World and the 514th highest-rated active chess player in the World.She is the 17th highest-rated player in China and the 2nd highest female. This is her win percentage with both colors:
113 game(s) with White :
Win: 65% Draw: 25% Loss: 10%
112 game(s) with Black :
Win: 40% Draw: 34% Loss: 26%
Her results:
Zhao Xue: (elo 2523) , was one of the best scorers of her team at the Women's Chess Olympiads. She scored 11/12 (performance rating of 2723) on board four in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled in 2002, 10/12 (performance 2603) on board three at the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvia in 2004; and 10/13 on board one (performance 2615), winning an individual Gold, at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin in 2006.
In 2008, she became China's 24th Grandmaster.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 Shen Yang.
Her GM norms were achieved at the 37th Chess Olympiad (Women) in Turin, Italy 21 May-4 June, 2006; by scoring 10/13 and at the North Urals Cup 2007 in Krasnoturinsk, Russia July 21-31 2007, by scoring 6.0/9.
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) 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 Xue played in the 2007 World Women's Team chess championship and scored 6 1/2 points in 8 games for a performance elo of 2689 (source: more of her performance statistics can be found at:
http://www.olimpbase.org/playersv/kwasso28.html)
In 2009,:
(a) she recently played in the Russian Team Cup (Women's League) on the Economist 1 team and she scored 5.5 /7 for a performance elo of 2655 (third best in the competition behind T.Kosintseva and A.Muzychuk.
(b)she recently played in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event in Istanbul, where she finished in 4th place with a score of 7.5/11 (which was a performance of 2612: In this event although she finished fourth, she defeated the top four- finishing players in the tournament: Cramling, Yildiz Betul Cemre, Fierro, and Hou Yifan!! and had 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses (sources: http://istanbul2009.fide.com/tourview/show-15.html and
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/search?q=Zhao+Xue)
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Using Chessbase 9 and MegaDatabase 2009, I found that she has 619 games in Mega 2009.
and found these statistics about Zhao Xue:
-Her first games I found in MegaDatabase 2009 were from the WU12 Girls Chess Championship (1996), and the most recent games I found in the database were from the 2008 EU Cup played in October 2008.
-Her current elo of 2531 is the highest ELO she has ever attained.
-In 2008, she played 117 games.In her career she has played 309 games with the white pieces and 305 games with the black pieces.
With white she has won or drawn 67% of her games, with black she has won or drawn 60% of her games.
-These are the best finishes of her career:
FIDE-Wch k.o. (Women) 2004 IX 3.5/6 +1 Rank 2
Dos Hermanas Internet f 6th 2005 IX 6/9 +3 Rank 2
WMSG Blitz Team KO 1st (Women) 2008 XIII 2.5/4 +1 Rank 2
WMSG Rapid Team KO 1st (Women) 2008 XIII 3.5/4 +3 Rank 1
These are her results against other players (using Chessbase Megabase 2009):
Elisabeth Paehtz 6.5/11 +2 11 Games
Natalija Pogonina 6.5/11 +2 11 Games
Tatiana Kosintseva 7/9 +5 9 Games
Yifan Hou 3.5/9 -2 9 Games
Humpy Koneru 5.5/8 +3 8 Games
Li Ruofan 4/8 +0 8 Games
Antoaneta Stefanova 2.5/8 -3 8 Games
Nadezhda Kosintseva 2.5/8 -3 8 Games
Gu Xiaobing 6.5/7 +6 7 Games
Huang Qian 4/7 +1 7 Games
Zhang Pengxiang 4/6 +2 6 Games
Yang Shen 3.5/6 +1 6 Games
Alexandra Kosteniuk 2.5/6 -1 6 Games
Penteala Harikrishna 2.5/6 -1 6 Games
Lufei Ruan 2.5/6 -1 6 Games
Marie Sebag 3/5 +1 5 Games
Dronavalli Harika 3/5 +1 5 Games
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 3/5 +1 5 Games
Sergey Karjakin 1.5/5 -2 5 Games
Xu Yuanyuan 1.5/5 -2 5 Games
Lela Javakhishvili 1/5 -3 5 Games
-When playing the white pieces she only plays 1.d4 ??? 2.c4 (the Queen's Gambit) or 1.c4 (The English Opening) . Her best performance as white against any opening is against the King's Indian Defense:.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 where she has won or drawn 93% of her games (7 games in total). When she plays 1.d4 to open the game she wins or draws 70% of these games,when she starts with 1.c4 she wins or draws 60% of these games, and when she plays 1.e4 she wins or draws 61% of her games.
(I)When playing the black pieces against 1.e4 she plays either the Sicilian defense, (1...c5), king pawn (1..e5), Caro-Kann (1...c6), or Alekhine's defenses (1.e4 Nf6).
(I)(a)When playing the Sicilian as black defense she has:
defeated:
-Victor Kurochkin twice(elo 2426) at the 2005 Moscow Aeroflot op-B and in the 2007 Taby Scandinavian open,
-WGM/IM Marie Sebag (France),
-WGM/IM Elisabeth Paehtz of Germany (elo 2457)
drawn with:
-GM Wedberg (Sweden elo 2507)
-GM Robert Fontaine (elo 2532)
(c)lost to GM Karjakin (in 48 moves),, lost to GM Nigel Short (2003 49 moves),
When playing the black side of a Ruy Lopez opening she has defeated GM Zhang Pengxiang (2560),defeated GM Robert Fontaine (2539), and drawn with GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave (2525).
Other facts about the competion she has faced:
she has:
(A)defeated:
(a)Kateryna Lahno (when they both had elo's in the 2400's).
(b)Andrei Volokitin in the 1999 Groningen Young Masters when both players had elos in the 2300's
(c) Humpy Koneru (year: 2001)with white when both player's elo's were in the 2300's.
(d)defeated Irina Krush (elo2473) (2008 Istanbul Ataturk (Women) when Krush was white.
(e)won,drawn, and lost to Hou Yifan (2527)
(B)drawn games with:
-Ivanchuk, (21 moves), -GM Zhang Zhong (2608),
(C) lost to Magnus Carlsen, (in 40 moves)
She has played 17 games with the Kosinsteva sisters
(a)against: WGM/IM Nadezhda Kosintseva (2475) Zhao Xue has one win, 4 losses, 4 draws,
(b)against WGM/IM Tatatina Kosintseva (2511), Zhao Xue has 5 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses
that is all the information I could gather for you,
sincerely,
Wayne MendrykComment
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