Women's World Chess Championship 2020

Women's World Chess Championship 2020

Shanghai, China & Vladivostok, Russia
5–24 January 2020
	Defending champion	Challenger
	Ju Wenjun	Aleksandra Goryachkina
	6 (2½) Scores 6 (1½) Game 1 ½ 97 move draw ½ Game 2 ½ 40 move draw ½ Game 3 ½ 85 move draw ½ Game 4 1 ← 63 moves 0 Game 5 0 51 moves → 1 Game 6 ½ 105 move draw ½ Game 7 ½ 67 move draw ½ Game 8 0 45 moves → 1 Game 9 1 ← 62 moves 0 Game 10 1 ← 62 moves 0 Game 11 ½ 40 move draw ½ Game 12 0 60 moves → 1 Tiebreak Game 13 ½ 67 move draw ½ Tiebreak Game 14 ½ 72 move draw ½ Tiebreak Game 15 1 ← 45 moves 0 Tiebreak Game 16 ½ 77 move draw ½
	Born 31 January 1991 28 years old	Born 28 September 1998 21 years old
	Winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2018	Winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2019
	Rating: 2584 (World No. 2)	Rating: 2578 (World No. 4)
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The 2020 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by Ju Wenjun (world champion as winner of the 2018 knock-out championship) and her challenger, Aleksandra Goryachkina, the winner of a newly established Candidates Tournament that was held in 2019.^[1]

The match was planned in two parts, one held in Shanghai (China) and one in Vladivostok (Russia), from 3 to 24 January 2020. It marked a return to a match-only format for the title with a qualifying Candidates Tournament, after new FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich had expressed his dissatisfaction with the knock-out tournaments and resulting frequently changing world champions.

Ju Wenjun successfully defended her title.