Ju Wenjun

Ju Wenjun

Ju Wenjun, 2013
Full name Ju Wenjun
Country China
Born January 31, 1991[1]
China
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2545 (May 2015)
(No. 4 ranked woman in the August 2014 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2582 (Oct 2014)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ju.

Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; born January 31, 1991)[2] is a Chinese chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

Career

Ju Wenjun plays for Shanghai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[3]

In December 2004, Ju came joint second in the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Beirut.[4] In October 2007, she came joint fourth in the 2007 China Women's Zonal 3.5 Tournament in Tianjin.[5]

In August–September 2008 at the Women's World Chess Championship she was knocked out in the second round by Antoaneta Stefanova 1.0-3.0. Two years later in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 she reached the quarter-finals.

In June 2010 she won the Women's Chinese Championship with 8/11.

In July 2011 she won the 1st Hangzhou Women Grand Master Chess Tournament ahead of reigning Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan undefeated with 6.5/9.

In October 2011 she took the second place at the Women's Grand Prix in Nalchik with 7/11, ranked only after her compatriot Zhao Xue, her performance enough to acquire her third and final GM norm.[6] However, one of the third GM Norms was missing the signature of the arbiter, disqualifying her for consideration for the Grandmaster title.

During June 18 to July 2, 2014 in the 5th stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 held in Lopota, Georgia she placed join second with Elina Danielian and a 7/11 score (+5 -2 =4, TPR 2622). This marks her fourth and final GM norm necessary for Grandmaster status.

In the 6th stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, from August 24 to September 7, she placed joint first with Hou Yifan with a 8.5/11 score (+6 =5, TPR 2695). At the conclusion of this tournament her live rating also eclipsed 2580, making her the second highest rated Chinese women player ever, beating Zhao Xue's September 2013 mark of 2579.

She was the No. 2 ranked girl chess player (under-21) in the world on the November 2011 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list.[7] She had been on the FIDE Top 20 Girls list from January 2007 to November 2011.

In the 4th Quarter of 2014 Presidential Board meeting in Sochi, Russia, her GM title was approved.[8] With 5 successful GM norms, including 3 Norms from the Women's Grand Prix (1 from each series), she is now a fully fledged grandmaster, China's 31st Grandmaster and the 31st woman to hold the title.

In 2014 she became Women's Chinese Champion for the second time since 2010.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rating data for player Ju, Wenjun, (CHN)
  2. ↑ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
  3. ↑ http://ccl.sports.cn/
  4. ↑ FIDE Online. Archive - Tournament report April 2005
  5. ↑ FIDE Online. Archive - Tournament report January 2008
  6. ↑ http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=102346
  7. ↑ Ju, Wenjun CHN FIDE World Top Chess Player
  8. ↑ http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/8403-list-of-titles-approved-by-the-4th-quarter-pb-2014.html
  9. ↑ http://en.chessbase.com/post/yu-yangyi-ju-wenjun-chinese-champs

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