IMMiaoyi Lu

Lu Miaoyi grew up in a chess family: her mother, Xu Yuanyuan, is a woman grandmaster and former Chinese women's champion. Lu encountered the game at her mother's club at three and played her first internationally rated tournament at five. At ten she won the Belgrade women's grandmaster tournament. She became a woman grandmaster in 2023. In early 2024 she earned three international master norms in less than two months. That May she won the Chinese women's championship after a blitz playoff against Ni Shiqun, following her mother's national title twenty-one years earlier. The victory also qualified her for China's Olympiad team.