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Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 was an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2023. The first stage of the tournament, consisting of the quarterfinals and semifinals, was held from 24 October to 6 November 2022 in Monaco, and from 29 November to 11 December in Khiva. The second stage, i.e. the Candidates final, took place in Chongqing, China from 27 March to 6 April 2023. Lei Tingjie won the match with a round to spare. Lei moved on to challenge the defending Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun, but lost the match in game 12. Participants The eight players who qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament were: Results In June 2022, FIDE announced the pairings for the quarterfinals. It has been speculated that these pairings were made to prevent a 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia vs Ukraine matchup before the final. Notes References See also * Candidates Tournament 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lei Tingjie
Lei Tingjie (, born 3 March 1997) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. 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 the sixth woman to obtain the title as a teenager. Career In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi on tie-break from Ju Wenjun and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2015, she won the women's open event of the Moscow Open, ahead of World Junior Girls Champion Aleksandra Goryachkina. Lei competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, where she was knocked out in the second round by top seed Humpy Koneru. In December 2015, Lei tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Zubarev, Olexandr Bortnyk, Jure Škoberne, and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd Böblingen International Open scoring 7/9 points. In 2016, she played on the gold medal-winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |