Gu Xiaobing (; born July 12, 1985) is a

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player from China. She was awarded by

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the title of

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(WGM) in 2003. Gu competed in the

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and

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. She was in the

Top 20 Girls rating list from January 2003 to January 2004. She achieved the

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s required for the WGM title in the Women's Zonal 3.3 Championship in 2001, 2001 World Junior Girls Championship and Women's

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in 2002. Gu finished runner-up to

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, Turkey. In January 2016, Gu won the Australian Women's Masters, a

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held in

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, Australia. She is the director of Yangzhou Yunhe Chess Academy since 2013.

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Official blog
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Gu Xiaobing
chess games at 365Chess.com
Xiaobing Gu
chess games at 365Chess.com 1985 births Living people Chess woman grandmasters Chess players from Jiangsu People from Taizhou, Jiangsu 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-chess-bio-stub

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