The 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship is a chess match for the Women’s World Chess Championship title.
It is contested by Ju Wenjun (winner of the 2018 knock-out championship) and her challenger, Aleksandra Goryachkina the winner of a newly established Candidates Tournament, that was held in 2019.
The match is planned in two parts, one held in Shanghai (China) and one in Vladivostok (Russia) from 3 to 26 January 2020.
The match marks the return to a match only format for the title with qualifying Candidates Tournament, after new FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich expressed his dissatisfaction for the knock-out tournaments and its frequent different world champions.