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Xie Jun is a Chinese female chess player and politician. Born in Baoding on October 30, 1970, she holds Chinese citizenship and speaks Chinese. She was educated at Beijing Normal University. Her chess titles include Woman International Master, Woman Grandmaster, International Master, and Grandmaster. She represented China in the sport and participated in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 1988 and 1996. Her Elo rating is 2574.
Xie Jun is also an author. Open Library lists three works under the name Xie, Jun., including *Xia qi de nu ren*, *Yandang shan dao you*, and *Zhongguo gu dai yi xue ming zhu*. Crossref records five works associated with her.
Synthesized by Vinony from 27 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Xia qi de nu ren
- Yandang shan dao you
- Zhongguo gu dai yi xue ming zhu
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 15
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Xie+Jun">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,637x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,798x
- Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
· 2017 · cited 16,985x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1970-10-30 ) October 30, 1970 (age 55) , Baoding , Hebei, China
- Spouse
- Wu Shaobin
- Country
- China
- Title
- Grandmaster (1993)
- Women s world champion
- 1991–1996, 1999–2001
- Fide rating
- 2574 (June 2026) [inactive]
- Peak rating
- 2574 (January 2008)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Xie Jun (Chinese: 谢军; 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 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.
Early life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xie Jun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.