Lei Tingjie

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lei.
Lei Tingjie
Lei in 2020
Personal information
Born (1997-03-03) 3 March 1997
Fuling, Chongqing, China[1]
Spouse
Raymond Song
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(m. 2025)​
Chess career
CountryChina
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2566 (April 2026)
Peak rating2569 (November 2025)
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 3 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.[4]

As the Runner of the World Championship Lei participated in Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 finishing tied 2nd, 3rd with tiebreaks.[14]

Lei won the silver medal at the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2024, Beating Bibisara Assaubayeva in quarter finals, Kateryna Lagno in semifinals and losing to Ju Wenjun in the finals.[15]

Lei finished 2nd in Norway Chess Women 2025, trailing 1st place Anna Muzychuk by only 0.5 points.[16]

She participated in Women's Chess World Cup 2025 as the top seed, she lost in the semifinals to 4th seed Koneru Humpy and played 3rd seed Tan Zhongyi in the 3rd place match, which she lost with the score 1.5-0.5, Hence narrowly missing the Candidates spot.[17]

Personal life

Lei attended the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.[18] She is married to Taiwanese Grandmaster Raymond Song.[19]

References

  1. ^ 雷挺婕 (in Simplified Chinese). Chaoyue Chess. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13.
  2. ^ "GM Title Application" (PDF). FIDE. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  3. ^ "Wei Yi and Lei Tingjie are 2017 Chinese Chess Champions". Chessdom. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  4. ^ a b "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. ^ "FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024". candidates.fide.com. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  15. ^ "World Blitz Championship 2024 Lichess".
  16. ^ "Norway Chess Women 2025 Lichess".
  17. ^ Levin, Anthony. "Divya Wins Women's World Cup, Earns Grandmaster Title". Chess.com.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ "Lei Tingjie speaks about her husband". Youtube. Norway Chess. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
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