Lu Miaoyi

Lu Miaoyi
Lu Miaoyi
Country	China
Born	March 2010 (age 12); China
FIDE rating	2254 (March 2022)
Peak rating	2254 (March 2022)

Lu Miaoyi (born March 2010) is a Chinese chess player. She has a peak FIDE rating of 2254 and is one of two girls under age 14 rated above 2100 along with Alice Lee. Lu drew media attention when she reached a rating of 2200 shortly after turning 10 years old by finishing in ninth place in the Liberec Open in the Czech Republic and winning the 52nd Medjunarodni Velemajstorski Turnir Sahistkinja in Belgrade with a performance rating near 2400.[1][2]

Lu was born in a chess family in which her mother Xu Yuanyuan is a chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and her father is an amateur chess player. Lu was first introduced to chess at age three at her mother's chess club, and played her first FIDE-rated tournament at age five. Her mother began formally teaching her how to play at age seven.[1][2]

References

Schulz, André (March 16, 2020). "Is Miaoyi Lu the next Hou Yifan?". ChessBase. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
Song, Shifeng (March 28, 2022). "At the age of 12, she became an international master of Guoxiang women. This Chinese girl has attracted the attention of the world". iNEWS. Retrieved April 13, 2022.

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[chessbase-1] Schulz, André (March 16, 2020). "Is Miaoyi Lu the next Hou Yifan?". ChessBase. Retrieved April 13, 2022.

[inews-2] Song, Shifeng (March 28, 2022). "At the age of 12, she became an international master of Guoxiang women. This Chinese girl has attracted the attention of the world". iNEWS. Retrieved April 13, 2022.