Women's World Chess Championship 2025
| Shanghai & Chongqing, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1–16 April 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Defending champion |
Challenger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ju Wenjun | Tan Zhongyi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born 31 January 1991 34 years old |
Born 29 May 1991 33 years old | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2023 | Winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rating: 2561 (World No. 2) |
Rating: 2555 (World No. 4) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 was a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. This was the third time the two players have met in a world chess championship: Tan eliminated Ju on the way to winning the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 when the championship was decided in a knockout tournament, while Ju won the Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (May), defeating Tan 5½–4½ to claim the title. In the 2025 match taking place from 3 to 16 April 2025, Ju defended her title after defeating Tan with a 6½–2½ scoreline, winning the world championship for the fifth time.
The match was played to a best of 12 games, with the first six games in Shanghai from 3 to 10 April, and the next six games, plus tiebreaks if required, scheduled in Chongqing from 13 to 21 April. It was split across the hometowns of the two players, following the tradition from the previous three matches. Per regulation, Ju won €300,000 while Tan took home €200,000.