Chinese grandmaster Ju Wenjun secured her fifth consecutive Women’s World Chess Championship on Wednesday, defeating compatriot Tan Zhongyi in this year’s final. Her win in Chongqing, China, means Ju ...

R Vaishali has done it. She has won the Women's Candidates tournament in her second appearance and booked her ticket to fighting for the ultimate prize in chess - the World Championship. Here's what ...

Ju Wenjun has once again proven herself the undisputed queen of the chessboard. On Wednesday in Chongqing, the 34-year-old Chinese grandmaster clinched the 2025 Fide Women’s World Championship, ...

Tan leads 1.5-0.5 in the first-to-6.5 series following Ju’s costly endgame blunder in game two Tan Zhongyi, the 33-year-old challenger, took a shock 1.5-0.5 lead in game two of the 12-game Women’s ...

It was, quite expectedly, a wild day of blitz chess at the National Library on Sunday. Still, two women were calmer than the others. Third seed Dronavalli Harika and top seed and World champion Ju ...

Ju’s next assignment is against Chinese compatriot and defending champion, Tan Zhongyi in the Women’s World Chess Championship Ju Wenjun stole the show at the 2017 World Rapid Chess Championship in ...

In a clash of fluctuating fortunes, it was Chinese Grandmaster Ju Wenjun who held her nerve to beat Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina in tiebreaks 2.5-1.5 and retain her women’s world title in ...

China's Ju Wenjun beat home favorite Kateryna Lagno in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on Nov. 23, 2018 to retain her crown in the women's world chess championship. (Xinhua) BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- World ...

Ju Wenjun won the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Blitz crown on Monday, September 4, with a score of 12.5/18. She managed to beat the Indian duo of Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli, who finished second ...