Career
Her greatest success so far in an individual event was winning the 2002 Under-20 World Junior Girls Chess Championship, beating Humpy Koneru on tie-break.
In 2007, she took second place in the women's supertournament North Urals Cup with a score of 6/9, lost to former world champion Zhu Chen on tiebreak.
In August–September 2008 at the Women's World Chess Championship she was knocked out in the second round by compatriot Shen Yang ½-1½.
In December 2010 she took part in the Women's World Chess Championship. The tournament was based on a knockout format, and she managed to continue on until the semi-finals where she lost 1½-2½ to her compatriot Ruan Lufei.
As of 2011, she is still an active female chess player for China. She is a participant for the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012, qualifying based on her stellar results of the Women's World Chess Championship 2010. In the Shenzhen leg, she finished with a score of 6/11 at joint 5-6 place along with Ruan Lufei, earning her 75 points in the Grand Prix.
In October 2011 Zhao Xue won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix tournament at Nalchik, Russia with the massive score of 9.5/11.
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