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Current Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun from China. The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its inception in 1927, unlike the absolute World Chess Championship, which only came under FIDE's control in 1948.
The 2023 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by the defending champion, Ju Wenjun , and her challenger, Lei Tingjie , the winner of the 2022–23 Candidates tournament .
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 was an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. It was held from 3 April to 22 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada, alongside the Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] [2] It was a double round-robin tournament. [3]
The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 will take place in 2025 as a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] Both players previously challenged for the world championship in May 2018 , with Ju defeating then-world champion Tan 5½–4½ to win the title.
The Women's World Chess Championship 2012 was a knockout tournament, to decide the women's world champion. [1] The title was won by Anna Ushenina of Ukraine for the first time. [2] Defending champion Hou Yifan went out in the second round. The tournament was played as a 64-player knockout type in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, from 10 November to 1 ...
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FIDE returned to schedule by holding a second Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (tournament), with the full 64-player knock-out in November, culminating with the final two players competing for the championship title. [22] The event was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. [1] Ju Wenjun entered the tournament as top rated player and won the event.
The Women's World Chess Championship 2018 was a knock-out tournament to crown a new women's world champion in chess. It was the second world championship held in 2018, after Ju Wenjun had defeated Tan Zhongyi to win the title in May 2018. The tournament was played as a 64-player knockout type from 2 to 23 November in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.