Biography

Chinese Grandmaster (1993), Woman Grandmaster (1990) and International Arbiter (2004). Women's World Champion 1991-96 and 2000-01.

She is one of the most successful female chess players of our time together with the Polgar sisters, Nana Gaprindashvili, Maya Chiburdanidze and Hou Yifan.

In the early stage, she won the national Girls' Championships in 1984 and 1985 and acquired the Women's Championship title four years later. In 1988, she won the World Junior Championship. Xie Jun women's chess was achieved in 1991 in Manila when she defeated the legendary Maya Chiburdanidze of Georgia 8½-6½ in a match for the Women's World Championship. She kept her title in 1993, defeating Nona Ioseliani of Georgia 8½-2½. She held the crown until 1996 when Zsu. Polgar from Hungary defeated her 8½-4½, but in 1999, she successfully regained it by defeating Alisa Galiamova and her compatriot Qin Kanying in Delhi in 2000. Since 1988, she has represented China in many team events and won gold medals with the Chinese Women's Team in the Olympiads in 1998, 2000 and 2004. 

Best results: Borzhomi 1990, 1^st; Groningen 1997, 1^st; Cannes 1999, 1^st. Since she married and became a mother, she left active chess in 2004. In 1998, she published her autobiography in The Life and Games of Xie Jun.

Best ELO: 2569 in 2003. She is inactive since 2008.