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Decisions Title FIDE PB / Congress Status: Grandmaster: 4th quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 7-10 November 2014, Sochi, RUS: YES: Woman Grandmaster
Jun 9, 2024 · Ju Wenjun (born January 31, 1991, Shanghai, China) is a Chinese chess player who became the women’s world chess champion in 2018. Ju learned to play chess at the age of seven, when she chose lessons as something interesting to do after school. She soon started to do well against local players her same age and in national tournaments.
Jul 22, 2023 · However, Ju Wenjun proved her poise and mettle by winning two games out of the five remaining ones, avoiding the sort of quiet draw in the final game that many in the commentariat have predicted ...
Ju Wenjun crowned with her fourth women’s world champion title. 7/25/2023 – The closing ceremony of the Women’s World Championship match was held at the grand hall of the Changshou District Office Service Centre, the same venue where just two days earlier, Ju Wenjun defeated challenger Lei Tingjie in the crucial twelfth game of the match.
The 2023 Women's Chess World Championship sees defending World Champion Ju Wenjun face challenger Lei Tingjie in a 12-game, €500,000 title match in Shanghai ...
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Jul 24, 2023 · With fanfare and roaring applause in the background, Ju Wenjun stepped onstage. Wearing a bright red dress – in the colour of the Chinese national flag – the four-time Women's World Championship winner had a crown placed on her head and was awarded a trophy and a golden medal.
Ju Wenjun has been an international grandmaster since 2014. She also won 2009 and 2011 World Team Championships as well as 2016 and 2018 Olympiads with her country's national team. In 2017, she won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Saudi Arabia and defended her title one year later in Russia. Having won the FIDE Grand-Prix series, she then ...
