On this day, 29 years ago, on February 20, 1996 (January 2, 1996 in the lunar calendar), Xie Jun failed to defend his title and lost his championship title. Xie Jun was born in Beijing on October 30, 1970. He learned China chess at the age of 6 and won the Beijing City Children's China Chess Championship at the age of 10; then he began to learn chess. In 1984, at the age of 14, he won the junior championship and sixth place in the adult group in the national competition, becoming a national master. In 1988, he was promoted to international master; In 1989, he won the runner-up in the Polish Women's Chess Invitational Tournament; in 1990, in the 29th Olympic World Chess Championship, he won the third place for the China women's team with outstanding results of 9 wins, 4 and 1 loss; in July, he won the ticket to the World Chess Top Eight and won the title of Women's Chess Grand Master; From September to October, he won the first place in the World Championship Candidate Competition held in the Soviet Union and won the right to challenge Elisa Maric, an outstanding Yugoslav female chess player. Alyssa Maric, who defeated Yugoslavia in 1991, qualified to challenge the world champion and Soviet female chess player Maia Chibuldanidze. On October 30, she defeated Chibuldanidze, a four-time consecutive world champion, and finally reached the peak of world women's chess on the occasion of her 21st birthday, ending the sixty-four-year monopoly of European players and the forty-two-year monopoly of Soviet players on the chess championship. In 1990, he was named one of the top ten athletes in the country. On February 20, 1996, Xie Jun lost the title and lost the championship.