Ju Wenjun

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ju is the family name here, Wenjun is the first name.

Ju Wenjun, 2016
Association	People's Republic of China
Born	January 31, 1991 Shanghai
title	Women's Grandmaster (2009) Grandmaster (2014)
world champion	since 2018
Current  Elo rating	2560 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2604 (March 2017)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ju Wenjun ( Chinese  居 文君 , Pinyin Jū Wénjūn ; born January 31, 1991 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese chess player . She has been the reigning world chess champion since 2018 and is ranked second on the FIDE world rankings for women. In 2020 Wenjun was able to defend her title as world chess champion.

Life

Ju Wenjun shared the 2nd – 4th Place at the Asian Women's Championship in Beirut (2004) and second at the Chinese Chess Queen tournament in Jinzhou (2009). For China, she played in the women's chess Olympiads in 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 . At the Chess Olympiad 2010, she exceeded a grandmaster norm by two points with her score of 9.5 points from 11 games . Ju Wenjun won with the team in 2016 and 2018 and came second in 2010, 2012 and 2014. In the individual evaluation she achieved the best result on the top board in 2018, the second best result on the second board in 2010 and 2016 and the third best result on the second board in 2014. Ju Wenjun participated in the women's team championships in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. In 2009 and 2011 she won the team title, in 2011 she also achieved the best individual result on the fourth board, while in 2013 she achieved both the best individual result on the top board and the best Elo performance of all participants. She won the Asian women's team championship in 2012, 2014 and 2016, winning the individual ranking on the second board in 2012 and on the first board in 2016.

In the Chinese team championship, Ju Wenjun has played for the Shanghai Jianqiao University team since it was founded in 2005 and won the title with them in 2008 , 2009 , 2012 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . Ju Wenjun won the 2010 Chinese Women's Championship in Xinghua . In the same year she won the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou with the Chinese team . In September 2014 she won the tournament of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Sharjah undefeated. She got 8.5 points from 11 games and relegated the tied FIDE World Champion Hou Yifan to 2nd place. In February 2016 she won the tournament of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Tehran undefeated and with 7.5 out of 11 possible points . At the 2018 women's world chess championship , she won the world title in a duel against her compatriot Tan Zhongyi with 5.5: 4.5 and defended it in the same year at the knockout world championship against Jekaterina Lagno . At the 2020 World Cup , Wenjun was able to defend her title against the Russian Alexandra Goryachkina . In the tie-break of the World Cup duel, she prevailed 2.5: 1.5 after it was 6: 6 in the regular games.

Ju Wenjun has held the women's grandmaster title (WGM) since 2009; she achieved the required standards in February 2009 at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow and in May 2009 at the Asian women's championship in Subic . In November 2014, Ju Wenjun was awarded the title of Grand Master (GM) after she had already fulfilled six standards, namely at the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad, at a WGM tournament in Hangzhou in July 2011, at two tournaments of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012 in Nalchik and Jermuk , at the Dubai Open in April 2013 and at a tournament of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–2014 in Lopota .

Web links

Commons : Ju Wenjun  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Ju Wenjun on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ChessBase Megabase 2010
2. ↑ Ju Wenjun's results at the women's chess Olympiads at olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women team line-up with individual results - Women China. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed November 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results - Women China. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed November 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ju Wenjun's results at the women's team championships at olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Ju Wenjun's results at the Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Ju Wenjun and Hao Wang are China Chess Champions , accessed December 9, 2010.
8. ↑ Tournament website at chess-results.com (English), accessed on December 9, 2010.
9. ↑ Niklesh Kumar Jain: Ju Wenjun: "Nothing makes me as happy as chess!" - An interview in: de.chessbase.com. June 15, 2018, accessed August 16, 2019.
10. ^ André Schulz : Women's World Cup : Ju Wenjun defends the title In: de.chessbase.com. November 23, 2018, accessed August 16, 2019.
11. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Wenjun remains world champion - but is not the strongest player in the world - DER SPIEGEL - sport. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ WGM application to FIDE (English)
13. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)