Xu Yuhua

Xu Yuhua (born 29 October 1976) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former Women's World Champion (2006–2008).

She was China's third women's world chess champion after Xie Jun and Zhu Chen.

She has been followed by Chinese women's world chess champions Hou Yifan, Tan Zhongyi, and Ju Wenjun.

On March 25, 2006 Yuhua won the Women's World Chess Championship knock-out tournament in Ekaterinburg, Russia, defeating Russian IM Alisa Galliamova in the final 2½–½ (in a best-of-four match).

She won one of the Grand Prix tournaments in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011, but overall finished seventh, so did not qualify for the 2011 Women's World Championship match.