Lei Tingjie

Lei Tingjie
Lei in 2020
CountryChina
Born (1997-03-13) 13 March 1997 (age 27)
Fuling District, Chongqing,[1] China
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2549 (October 2024)
Peak rating2554 (May 2023)
Lei Tingjie
Chinese雷挺婕
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLéi Tǐngjié
IPA[lěɪ tʰìŋ tɕjě]

Lei Tingjie (Chinese: 雷挺婕; pinyin: Léi Tǐngjié, born 13 March 1997[2]) 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.[3][4] Lei earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at age 19, and was the sixth woman to obtain the title as a teenager.

  1. ^ 雷挺婕 (in Simplified Chinese). Chaoyue Chess. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13.
  2. ^ "(WGM) TITLE APPLICATION" (PDF). FIDE. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  3. ^ "Wei Yi and Lei Tingjie are 2017 Chinese Chess Champions". Chessdom. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  4. ^ "Lei Tingjie wins the Women's Candidates Final". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.