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Ju, Wenjun. World Rank (Active): 293. Federation: China. FIDE ID: 8603006. B-Year: 1991.
Ju Wenjun is the current Women's World Chess Champion. She won this title in May 2018 by defeating her fellow compatriot Tan Zhongyi with score 5,5:4,5. In November 2018, Ju Wenjun defended her title after winning the World Women's Championship.
July 5th - 22nd | GM Ju Wenjun vs. GM Lei Tingjie | 12-game match Chinese League 2023 June 5 – 17 | 12-team round-robin | Classical time control | Wang Hao, Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi
Jul 22, 2023 · Ju Wenjun (32) claimed her fourth Women’s World Champion title after clinching a crucial victory in the decisive, final, 12th game of the match against challenger Lei Tingjie. With this victory, Ju has now equalled the record set by her compatriot Hou Yifan, both having won the world crown four times.
Ju Wenjun is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the current Women’s World Chess Champion. In March 2017 she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600.
Ju Wenjun won FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16. This qualified her for a match for the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 against incumbent champion Tan Zhongyi. Ju won the match with a score of 5½ - 4½ in May 2018, becoming the Women's World Chess Champion.
Jul 22, 2023 · GM Ju Wenjun has won a wild final game of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to claim her fourth title with a 6.5-5.5 victory over GM Lei Tingjie. The 17th women's world champion, who has held the title since 2018, also picks up the €300,000 ($334,000) winner's prize, while Lei takes €200,000.
Jul 16, 2023 · GM Ju Wenjun is back! The Women's World Champion outplayed challenger GM Lei Tingjie in a complex middlegame and then ground out an endgame win to level the scores at 4-4 going into the final four games of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship.
Ju is the current Women's World Chess Champion, a title she's held since 2018, the year she won both a 10-game Championship match against Tan Zhongyi and a 64-player knockout Championship Tournament. She's Shanghai's first and China's sixth female world champion.
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.
