Ju Wenjun

Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; 31 born January 1991 in Shanghai) is a Chinese chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

She plays for Shanghai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).

Career

In December 2004, Ju came joint second in the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Beirut. In October 2007, she came joint fourth in the 2007 FIDE Women's Zonal 3.5 Tournament in Tianjin.

In the Women's World Chess Championship 2008 she was knocked out in the second round by Antoaneta Stefanova 1.0-3.0. Two years later, in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 she reached the quarter-finals.

In June 2010 she won the Women's Chinese Chess Championship with a score of 8/11 points.

In July 2011 she won the Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament ahead of reigning Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan undefeated with 6.5/9.

In October 2011 she took the second place at the Nalchik leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011-2012 with 7/11, ranked only after her compatriot Zhao Xue, her performance enough to acquire her third and final Grandmaster norm. However, one of the third GM norms was missing the signature of the arbiter, disqualifying her for consideration for the Grandmaster title.