On March 25,2006 Yuhua won the Women's World Chess Championship knock-out tournament in Ekaterinburg,Russia,defeating Russian IM Alisa Galliamova in the final 2½–½(in a best-of-four match). The knockout event had 64 participants,with both former world champion Zhu Chen and reigning world champion Antoaneta Stefanova. She became China's 22nd Grandmaster,the 3rd Chinese female grandmaster,by winning the event. [2]
She lost her world championship at the following championship in 2008,which was also a 64-player knockout tournament,when she was knocked out in the second round. She won one of the Grand Prix tournaments in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011,but overall finished seventh,so did not qualify for the 2011 Women's World Championship match.
In 2011,Yuhua was playing for Zhejiang chess club in the China Chess League (CCL). [3] She has not played any FIDE-rated games since 2011. [4]
Major successes and titles include: [5]
She is a law graduate. [7]
Education degrees include:
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