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This is a list of Chess boxing champions at each weight class sanctioned by World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO) and World Chessboxing Association (WCBA). Heavyweight [ edit ]
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 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.
Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991) [1] is a Chinese chess grandmaster.She is the reigning four-time Women's World Champion, the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion, and a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
Humpy Koneru was the U-12 Asian Youth Champion in 1999. At adult levels, the highest-level national championships won by women were the 1991 Hungarian national championship by Judit Polgár, the 2000 Lithuanian national championship by Viktorija Čmilytė, and the 2006 Austrian national championship by Eva Moser.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
She made her debut on the national women's team on the reserve board at the 2013 European Team Chess Championship, scoring 2½/5 to help Russian win a silver medal behind Ukraine. [89] Her next major national team event was the 2015 Women's World Team Championship, where she scored 5/7 to earn a silver medal on the fourth board. [90]