Career
She was known as "Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk" from 1993 to 2001. She played for the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2010 Women"s Chess Olympiad and for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 1992 Women"s European Team Chess Championship. The reason for this was because only China had bid for the match.
Galliamova wanted half of the match to be played in Kazan, Russia.
However, the Russians did not have the money required. Finally, when Galliamova failed to show up to play the match, the match was declared forfeited to Xie Junior
FIDE then scheduled a match between Xie June and Zsuzsa Polgar for November 1998.
However, Polgar said that she could not play at that time because she was pregnant. This time Polgar said that she could not play the match because she was nursing
Finally, after repeated efforts to organize a match which was supposed to have taken place in 1998, FIDE declared that Polgar had forfeited her title and that the title was vacant.
FIDE decided to let Galliamova back into the cycle and held a match between Xie June and Galliamova for the Women"s World Chess Championship 1999. This time, Galliamova was willing to play because her original demand had been met in that Russia had come up with the money to sponsor half of the match. In March 2006, Galliamova again reached the finals of the FIDE Women"s World Championship, competing against Xu Yuhua.