Lei Tingjie

Lei Tingjie
Country China
Born (1997-03-13) 13 March 1997
Chongqing[1]
Title Grandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating 2468 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2545 (March 2018)
Lei Tingjie
Chinese 雷挺婕

Lei Tingjie (born 13 March 1997) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She won the Women's Chinese Chess Championship in 2017.[2]

Career

In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi on tie-break from Ju Wenjun[3] 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.[4] 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 Skoberne and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd Böblingen International Open scoring 7/9 points.[5]

In 2016, she played on the gold medal-winning Chinese team in the women's event of the Asian Nations Cup in Dubai.[6] She was awarded the full Grandmaster title in March 2017.[7] In June, Lei won the 6th Chinese Women's Masters Tournament in Wuxi, ahead of Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi.[8] In December, Lei took the silver medal in the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in Riyadh.[9]

In January 2018, Lei won the 43rd Sevilla International Chess Open.

References

  1. ↑ WGM title application FIDE
  2. ↑ "Wei Yi and Lei Tingjie are 2017 Chinese Chess Champions". Chessdom. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "WGM Lei Tingjie best in Moscow Open Women's Cup". Chessdom. 2015-02-08. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "GM Zubarev clinches the title at 32nd Boeblingen Open 2015". Chessdom. 2015-12-31. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Schulz, André (2016-04-07). "Asian Nations Cup: Gold for India and China". ChessBase.
  7. ↑ "List of titles approved by the Presidential Board by written resolution". FIDE. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2017-06-05). "6th Chinese Women's Masters 2017". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  9. ↑ "Viswanathan Anand and Ju Wenjun are World Rapid Champions!". Chessdom. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
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