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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. In March 2017, she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600. [2]
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.
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.
Chinese GM Ju Wenjun (left) defeated Russian GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (right) in the 2020 World Championship match. The following table shows the number of active female grandmasters from each national federation, as well as the count of all female grandmasters according to their current federation, their federation at the time they were ...
The 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 4th edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls.
It was contested by the defending champion, Ju Wenjun, and her challenger, Lei Tingjie, the winner of the 2022–23 Candidates tournament. It was played from 5 to 24 July 2023, in the hometowns of the two participants, giving each a home-field advantage for half the match. Ju won the match and successfully defended her title.
China's 2008 Olympiad Team: left to right, Wang Yue, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Wang Hao China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 2012, and 2014; the men's team winning gold at the 2014 Olympiad, and the average rating for the country's top ten players third in the FIDE rankings as of April 2023.
The tournament is an eight-player, double round-robin tournament, meaning there are 14 rounds with each player facing the others twice: once with the black pieces and once with the white pieces. The tournament winner will qualify to play Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Chess Championship 2025.