Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (May)

Women's World Chess Championship Match 2018

Shanghai & Chongqing, China
3–18 May 2018
	Defending champion	Challenger
	Tan Zhongyi	Ju Wenjun
	4½ Scores 5½ Game 1 ½ 63 move draw ½ Game 2 0 55 moves → 1 Game 3 0 27 moves → 1 Game 4 1 ← 35 moves 0 Game 5 0 35 moves → 1 Game 6 1 ← 125 moves 0 Game 7 ½ 33 move draw ½ Game 8 ½ 32 move draw ½ Game 9 ½ 80 move draw ½ Game 10 ½ 70 move draw ½
	Born 29 May 1991 26 years old	Born 31 January 1991 27 years old
	Winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2017	Winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16
	Rating: 2522 (World No. 10)	Rating: 2571 (World No. 2)
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The 2018 Women's World Chess Championship Match was a match held between Tan Zhongyi, the 2017 Women's World Chess champion, and her challenger Ju Wenjun^[1] to determine the new women's world chess champion. Ju Wenjun qualified by winning the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16.^[2]

The match took place from 2 to 20 May 2018 and was played in two halves, the first in Shanghai, the latter in Chongqing.^[3] Ju Wenjun won 5½ - 4½.