Lei Tingjie

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lei.
Lei Tingjie
Lei in 2020
CountryChina
Born (1997-03-13) 13 March 1997 (age 27)
Fuling District, Chongqing,[1] China
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2549 (December 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.

Career

In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi on tie-break from Ju Wenjun[5] and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2015, she won the women's open event of the Moscow Open, ahead of World Junior Girls Champion Aleksandra Goryachkina.[6] Lei competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, where she was knocked out in the second round by top seed Humpy Koneru. In December 2015, Lei tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Zubarev, Olexandr Bortnyk, Jure Škoberne, and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd Böblingen International Open scoring 7/9 points.[7]

In 2016, she played on the gold medal-winning Chinese team in the women's event of the Asian Nations Cup in Dubai.[8] She was awarded the full Grandmaster title in March 2017.[9] In June, Lei won the 6th Chinese Women's Masters Tournament in Wuxi, ahead of Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi.[10] In December, Lei took the silver medal in the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in Riyadh.[11]

In January 2018, Lei won the 43rd Sevilla International Chess Open, one of the largest high-level open tournaments ever won by a female player.[12]

She won the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 and secured a spot in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23.[13]

In April 2023, she won the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-23 after beating Tan Zhongyi 3½–1½, winning the match by game 5. In July 2023, Lei challenged reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun for the title, but lost the match after a loss in game 12.[14]

Personal life

Lei attended the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.[15]

References

  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.
  5. ^ "Lei Ting jie wins China Women Master". News About Chess. 2014-05-15. Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  6. ^ "WGM Lei Tingjie best in Moscow Open Women's Cup". Chessdom. 2015-02-08. Archived from the original on 2017-07-05. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  7. ^ "GM Zubarev clinches the title at 32nd Boeblingen Open 2015". Chessdom. 2015-12-31. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  8. ^ Schulz, André (2016-04-07). "Asian Nations Cup: Gold for India and China". ChessBase.
  9. ^ "List of titles approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution". FIDE. 3 March 2017. Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  10. ^ Crowther, Mark (2017-06-05). "6th Chinese Women's Masters 2017". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  11. ^ "Viswanathan Anand and Ju Wenjun are World Rapid Champions!". Chessdom. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  12. ^ "Delegación Sevillana de Ajedrez". www.fsajedrez.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  13. ^ "FIDE Grand Swiss: Dronavalli Harika draws with Germany's Elisabeth Paehtz, slips to joint third spot". 7 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Lei Tingjie wins the Women's Candidates Final". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  15. ^ "Congratulations to Lei Tingjie and Zhu Jiner on their achievements in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss". Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. November 9, 2021.

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