Lei Tingjie (born 13 March 1997) is a Chinese

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player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She was the 2021 Women's Grand Swiss champion, the 2017 Chinese women's national champion and the 2022-23 Women's Candidates winner. Lei earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at age 19, and was just the sixth woman in history to obtain the title as a teenager.

Career

In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in

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on tie-break from

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and was awarded the title of

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(WGM) by

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. In 2015, she won the women's open event of the Moscow Open, ahead of World Junior Girls Champion

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. Lei competed in the

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, where she was knocked out in the second round by top seed

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. In December 2015, Lei tied for 1st–5th with

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, Jure Skoberne and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd

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International Open scoring 7/9 points. In 2016, she played on the gold medal-winning Chinese team in the women's event of the Asian Nations Cup in

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. She was awarded the full Grandmaster title in March 2017. In June, Lei won the 6th Chinese Women's Masters Tournament in Wuxi, ahead of Women's World Champion

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. In December, Lei took the silver medal in the Women's

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. In January 2018, Lei won the 43rd Sevilla International Chess Open. She won the

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and secured a spot in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23. In April 2023, she won the

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after beating Tan Zhongyi 3½–1½, winning the match by game 5. She will challenge the Women's World Champion, Ju Wenjun, in July 2023, for the title of Women's World Champion.

References

External links

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Lei Tingjie
chess games at 365Chess.com *

team chess record at Olimpbase.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Lei, Tingjie 1997 births Living people Chess grandmasters Female chess grandmasters Chess woman grandmasters Chinese female chess players Chess players from Chongqing