(1970-10-30) October 30, 1970 (age 53) Baoding, Hebei
Title
Grandmaster (1993)
Women's World Champion
1991–1996 1999–2001
FIDE rating
2574 (May 2024) [inactive]
Peak rating
2574 (January 2008)
Xie Jun
Simplified Chinese
谢军
Traditional Chinese
謝軍
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Xiè Jūn
Wade–Giles
Hsieh4 Chun1
IPA
[ɕjê tɕýn]
Xie Jun (born October 30, 1970)[1] is a Chinese chess grandmaster and is the first Asian woman to become a chess grandmaster. She had two separate reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001. Xie is one of three women to have at least two separate reigns, besides Elisaveta Bykova and Hou Yifan. Xie Jun is the current president of the Chinese Chess Association. In 2019, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.[2]
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^"Xie Jun". World Chess Hall of Fame. March 15, 2019.
XieJun (born October 30, 1970) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and is the first Asian woman to become a chess grandmaster. She had two separate reigns...
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Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9602-0. Xie, Jun (1998). Chess Champion from China: The Life and Games of XieJun. London: Gambit Publications. ISBN 978-1-901983-06-7...
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