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 Ju Wenjun 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 Aleksandra Goryachkina. 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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, Olexandr Bortnyk,

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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 Tan Zhongyi. 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 FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 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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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