2023-07-05 02:32:00
Caption: The 2023 FIDE Women’s World Championship Tournament opens in Shanghai Source/Shanghai Sports
On the evening of July 4th, the opening ceremony of the 2023 FIDE Women’s World Championship was held at the InterContinental Shanghai Jing’an Hotel. In the next three weeks, Shanghai chess player Ju Wenjun will accept the challenge of the FIDE Women’s World Championship Candidates Tournament champion and Chongqing chess player Lei Tingjie to compete for the new World Chess Championship. After the laurels.
Dana Reznis-Ozola, deputy director of the FIDE Management Committee, said: China’s chess sports management department has provided very systematic support. For chess, China is a big country and a very smart country, because you continue to train young players. The laurels of this tournament have been guaranteed to go to Chinese chess players, but I hope this can also be a reason to inspire other countries, and hope that they can work harder to challenge China.
At the opening ceremony, the challenger Lei Tingjie drew white and the current world chess queen Ju Wenjun drew black. In the first round, Lei Tingjie will play white first.
“Yi” is higher, who will fight for the front
This match is a Chinese derby. From 3:00 pm on July 5, two chess players, Ju Wenjun and Lei Tingjie, will compete for the world championship in Shanghai and Chongqing. According to the latest rating ranking released by FIDE, Ju Wenjun ranked second in women with 2564 points, and Lei Tingjie ranked fourth in women with 2554 points.
According to the schedule, the first half of the FIDE Women’s World Championship will be held at the Shanghai Chess Academy from July 5th to 12th. The second half will be held in Chongqing from July 15th to 22nd. There are 12 rounds of games in total. The first to score 6.5 points wins. If following 12 rounds, the two sides are tied, there will be a rapid chess playoff. The total prize money of the competition is 500,000 euros. The winner gets 60% of the bonus, and the loser gets 40% of the bonus. If there is a rapid chess playoff, the winner will get 55% of the bonus, and the loser will get 45%.
This is Ju Wenjun’s third consecutive participation in this event. In May 2018, Ju Wenjun participated in the match for the first time and successfully challenged Tan Zhongyi, becoming China’s sixth and Shanghai’s first world chess queen, and in the Women’s World Chess Championship half a year later, she defeated the famous Russian player Lagono and successfully defended her title. In January 2020, Ju Wenjun defeated Russian teenager Goryachkina in the match and defended his title once more.
National Elephant Event Made in Shanghai
The FIDE Women’s World Championship Tournament is the most important women’s event of FIDE. It has attracted the attention of the majority of chess lovers, carries a heavy historical and cultural background, and has a wide range of influence in the world.
As Shanghai, which has a profound relationship with chess, is one of the cities in China that started and promoted chess earlier. This competition is the third time for Shanghai to host the FIDE Women’s World Championship. Shanghai hopes that by successfully hosting this competition, it will give full play to the driving and leading role of sports events, stimulate more citizens’ enthusiasm for participating in sports, further enhance the image and influence of Shanghai as an international metropolis, and create a world-class capital of international sports events , to provide assistance for Shanghai to build itself into a world-renowned sports city in an all-round way.
The Shanghai stage of the competition is sponsored by the World Chess Federation, the Chess Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, the China Chess Association, and the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, and undertaken by the Shanghai Chess Sports Management Center. It is co-organized by the Research Center and has received strong support from China Mobile Shanghai Company and Shanghai Three Guns (Group) Co., Ltd.
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