Talented girls and women mostly keep to themselves in chess. Image: picture alliance/dpa/TASS
Prize money is increasing, but women’s chess performance has stagnated as they keep to themselves. It also has to do with sexism. When will there finally be more joint championships?
In Chongqing, the hometown of her challenger Lei Tingjie, Ju Wenjun won the last game of the Women’s World Chess Championship on Saturday and defended her title with 6.5:5.5 points. The two Chinese coached world-class players such as Wei Yi, Teimur Rajabov and Pentala Harikrishna. Your prize fund of 500,000 euros made it possible.
The World Chess Federation FIDE has significantly increased prize money for women since 2018. The World Cup, which begins on Sunday in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, will be the highest-paid women’s competition to date, at $676,500.
