During August and September 2008, at the Women's World Chess Championship she was knocked out in the third round 0.5-1.5 by Pia Cramling of Sweden.
Pia Zadora | Pia Miranda | Pia Sundhage | Pia Fries | Pia Cramling | Pia Arcangel | Torrevecchia Pia | Secondo Pia | Sarah Pia Anderson | Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma | Pia Toscano | Pia Nielsen | Pia Kjærsgaard | PIA Flight 705 | Pia Douwes | Pia de' Tolomei | Pia Borgli | Pascal Pia | Maria Pia & Timoteo | Maria Pia De Vito |
She scored 8.5/13 and finished equal third, with Pia Cramling and Nana Ioseliani, in the Interzonal in Havana 1985, but Cramling won the play-off matches and qualified into the Candidates Tournament ahead of her.