Zhao Xue
| Zhao Xue | |
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| Country | China |
| Born |
6 April 1985 Jinan, Shandong, China |
| Title |
Grandmaster (2008) Woman Grandmaster (2001) |
| FIDE rating |
2498 (May 2017) (No. 10 ranked woman in the November 2015 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2579 (September 2013) |
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Representing  China
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| Asian Games | ||
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2006 Doha | Women's Individual |
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2006 Doha | Mixed Team |
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2010 Guangzhou | Women's Individual |
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2010 Guangzhou | Women's Team |
Zhao Xue (Chinese: 赵雪; pinyin: Zhào Xuě; born 6 April 1985 in Jinan) is a Chinese chess player. In 2008, she became China's 24th Grandmaster.
Zhao won the World Under-12 Girls Championship in 1997 and the World Under-14 Girls Championship in 1999.
In 2002, she won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in Goa, India, edging out defending champion Koneru Humpy on tie-break. This victory qualified her to the Women's World Chess Championship 2004, in which she knocked out Shadi Paridar in the first round, then lost to Elisabeth Pähtz and therefore was eliminated from the competition.
Zhao qualified thanks to her rating to the Women's World Chess Championship 2006, in which she lost in the first round to Maria Kursova. Later in the same year, she took part in the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha and won the silver medal in the women's individual chess rapid tournament.
In July 2007, she won the Queens Woman Grandmasters tournament in Bad Homburg and tied for first place with former women's world champion Zhu Chen in the women's supertournament North Urals Cup in Krasnoturinsk, Russia after both finished on 6/9, but placed second on tiebreak.
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