Women's chess masters in China: Yifan, Wenjun lead

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The first Chinese women chess grandmasters tournament is taking place from April 16 to 24 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, in China. Ten top Chinese women grandmasters, including Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, are participating. The event is a round robin with time controls of 90 minutes for the entire game plus a 30 second increment for each move. Draw offers are only allowed with the permission of the chief arbiter and will only be granted in theoretically drawn positions. Games start at 14:00h local time. The participants are:

Seed	Title	Player	Rating
1	GM	Hou Yifan	2602
2	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2519
3	GM	Zhao Xue	2495
4	WGM	Shen Yang	2443
5	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	2428
6	IM	Wang Yu A	2298
7	WGM	Huang Qian	2394
8	WGM	Ding Yixin	2376
9	WGM	Gu Xiaobing	2369
10	WGM	Zhang Xiaowen	2344

GM Hou Yifan and second seed WGM Ju Wenjun are both at 2.5/3 points. Yu A Wang is with 2 points. If you are comfortable with Chinese, you can access the official website here. Meanwhile, some games from the event.

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