SHANGHAI & CHONGQING, CHINA
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FIDE Women’s World
Championship Match
Championship Match
1-23 APRIL 2025
Ju Wenjun
world champion
Tan Zhongyi
Challenger
The winner takes the crown!
The 2025 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, featuring a highly anticipated rematch between two of China’s top Grandmasters: the reigning Champion, Ju Wenjun, and the Challenger, Tan Zhongyi, is the culmination of the FIDE Women’s World Championship Cycle 2023-2025. The title of the women’s World Chess Champion is decided in 12 games and a tiebreak in case of a tie.
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Tan Zhongyi
Ju Wenjun
Tan Zhongyi, the accomplished Chinese grandmaster, already left her mark on the chess landscape by being the Women’s World Chess Champion from 2017 to 2018 and clinching the Chinese women’s championship four times.
A native of Chongqing, she learned chess at the age of six and showed a great promise early on.
A native of Chongqing, she learned chess at the age of six and showed a great promise early on.
Women's World Champion since 2018, Chinese star Ju Wenjun first won the crown in a match against her compatriot Tan Zhongyi. She defended her title three times, winning the 64-player knockout tournament in 2018, matches against Aleksandra Goryachkina and Lei Tingjie in 2020 and 2023. Experience and impeccable professionalism make Ju a formidable opponent.
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