Ju Wenjun

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ju Wenjun
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 31, 1991(1991-01-31)
Age	33
Birthplace	Shanghai
Country	China
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ju Wenjun Biography

Ju Wenjun is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on January 31, 1991 in Shanghai, China. Ju Wenjun (Chinese: Ju Wen Jun Pinyin: Ju Wenjun ; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese grandmaster of chess. Ju Wenjun is currently the Women’s World Champion. She was the fifth woman to break the 2600 mark at the end of March in 2017. Ju Wenjun won 3 consecutive Women’s World Chess Championships held between 2018 and the year 2020.

2013 was the year she was awarded the silver medal in the team Shanghai at China’s Asian Cities Chess Championship in Dubai.

From June 18 to July 2, 2014 in the 5th stage of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2013–14 held in Lopota, Georgia she finished jointly second with Elina Danielian and a 7/11 score. This marks her fourth GM norm. 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, 2014 she placed joint first with Hou Yifan with a score of 8.5/11, winning the event thanks to a better tiebreak score.

In February 2016, Ju Wenjun won the Tehran leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2015–16. By also winning the last tournament of the Grand Prix in Khanty- Mansiysk, Russia, she finished first in the overall standings and earned the challenger spot in the Women’s World Chess Championship Match 2018, which she won. Several months later, in the Women’s World Chess Championship Tournament of November 2018, Ju defended the women’s world chess champion title. In December 2017, Ju won the Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship in Riyadh, and won in the same championship held in St. Petersburg in December 2018, scoring 11½/15 (+8=7) and 10/12 (+8=4), respectively.

She was the winner of both the Women’s Chinese Chess Championship in 2010 and 2014. In July 2011, she took home her first Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament unbeaten with scores of 6 1/2/9 points and was ahead of the current women’s world champion Hou Yifan. In October of 2011, she claimed second place in the Nalchik stage of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2011-12 with 7/11, which was ranked just ahead of her fellow countrywoman Zhao Xue. Her performance was sufficient to earn the third norm to earn to earn the Grandmaster title. However some of her norms was not accompanied by that signature by the arbitrator and she was disqualified from consideration for the title.

Ju Wenjun Net Worth

Ju Wenjun is one of the richest Chess Player from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ju Wenjun 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In December of 2004, Ju Wenjun placed third in the Asian Women’s Chess Championship in Beirut. The result allowed her to compete for the first time in the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2006. She played in this tournament in the years 2008, 2010 2011, 2012, 2015 and in 2017.

Ju Wenjun has played for the Chinese national women’s national team since in the year 2008. Her team been awarded the gold medal at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in 2016 and the Women’s World Team Championship in 2011 and 2009. Ladies Asian Nations Chess Cup in 2012, 2014 and in 2016 Gold medal at the Olympiad in 2018, and the Gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games.

In November 2014, FIDE awarded her the GM title in the 4th quarter Presidential Board meeting in Sochi, Russia. With six GM norms, including three 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. Also in 2014, she tied for first with Lei Tingjie in the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi.

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Facts & Trivia

Ju Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Ju Wenjun celebrates birthday on January 31 of every year.