Una Beth Harmon de la vida real: Wenjun en Newsweek

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12/11/2020 – La serie de Netflix "The Queen's Gambit" está teniendo un éxito tremendo, no solamente entre los aficionados a nuestro juego ciencia. Eso aumenta el interés por el ajedrez en general, especialmente en lo que se refiere al ajedrez femenino. Se podría decir que la Campeona del Mundo de Ajedrez, la china GM Ju Wenjun, es algo así como una "Beth Harmon de la vida real". La revista "Newsweek" ha publicado su historia. (Artículo en inglés.)

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Ju Wenjun: "Now I love playing chess even more"

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"I was seven years old when I first started playing chess. My parents didn’t know too much about the game because chess doesn't have a long history in China. Most people got to know more about it because of the 1991 Women's Chess World Championships when China’s Xie Jun defeated Georgia’s Maia Chiburdanidze. That just happened to be the year I was born.

When I was in elementary school there were various options for interesting after school lessons and I chose chess. At first I found I played well against students in my area of the same age, and then went on to achieve excellent results in under-8s and under-10s national competitions. At that stage I began to think I could become a professional chess player. My home in Shanghai at the time was very close to where I studied chess, so I’d play chess almost every day for a few hours. Chess was perhaps the most significant aspect of my childhood.

Then, in 2004 at the age of 13, I travelled to Beijing for professional chess training at the National Chess Center there. Sometimes you’re going to a tournament or event but the average time we trained was about six hours a day.

Becoming a grandmaster is the highest title in chess, and to achieve it you have to reach a rating of 2500 and three “norms”—in general, a norm is a strong performance with a rating of 2600 in select international chess events. When I received the title of grandmaster in 2014 I was 23 and had six norms. It's still fairly rare for a woman to become a grandmaster, but I believed I was good enough. So I was happy, but it wasn't necessarily surprising!

I first realized I could become Women’s Chess World Champion in 2016. That year, I competed in the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Women’s Grand Prix 2015-16; a series of five chess tournaments where the winning player qualifies as a challenger to play in the next FIDE Women’s World Chess Championships. I won that Grand Prix.

Chess is a male-dominated sport, so keeping the championships separate gives a chance for more female players to join and achieve. They’ve also been separated since the women's championships started in 1927, and there are open tournaments where male and female players can play against one another.

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