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Women's World Chess Championship 2020
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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]
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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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.