Zuo Wenjing 左文静

How she plays

She opens with the elephant. In 15 of her 22 red games here her first move brings an elephant to the centre, and she played it in three of her four red games at the 2022 championship.

She was at her most accurate in Kuching. Her median accuracy over the six championship games we hold is 96, against 91.7 over her 26 games since December 2025. In the last round, the game that decided the title, the engine marks no inaccuracy on any of her moves.

Her opponents make the first mistake. In 16 of her 20 wins here, the engine marks her opponent's first mistake before any of hers.

The title

2022 World Championship, Kuching

The 17th World Xiangqi Championship was played in Kuching, in Sarawak, and the women's event ran over seven rounds from 24 to 29 October 2022. Zuo won her first four games, drew with Chen Xinglin in round five and won the last two. By then the title was certain to go to one of the two Chinese players. Zuo won her last game, against Peng Jou-An of Chinese Taipei, and the title with it.

Tony Fung of Hong Kong, who reached the men's final at the same championship, has his own page.

Asian Games, Hangzhou

At the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou she won the women's individual gold, beating Wang Linna in the final. Her second gold came in the mixed team event, where she played three games for China, won two and drew the other. "I'm very happy to win two golds," she told the Hubei Sports Bureau. "It's my first time at an event this big. I got to see a lot of my idols, and to play against top players."

Her 2026 season

National Team Championship, Zhangjiakou

The national team championship ran from 28 March to 2 April 2026. Zuo played all seven rounds for Hubei's women's team, drew the first with black against Huang Leilei and won the other six.

The whole event is in the broadcast archive.

Shanghai Cup

At the Shanghai Cup, from 9 to 13 September, she reached the semi-final of the women's event and lost it to Wang Zihan of Hebei. We hold her four games with red there: two wins, a draw and that loss.

Women's league, Suifenhe

A week later she played two events back to back in Suifenhe: the qualifier for China's women's league, from 20 to 22 September, and then the first stage of the league itself, to 27 September. She scored five wins, a draw and a loss in the qualifier, the loss to Wang Linna, whom she had beaten for the Asian Games gold. In the league she won six, drew two and lost two, and in round five she played Wang Zihan twice, two weeks after the Shanghai semi-final, winning with black and drawing with red.

The qualifier and the league are in the broadcast archive.

Every event with her full record

Where she stands

Her 2026 games are in the broadcast archive with the site's analysis, and her player page there has her results.

Sources: game records from dpxq.com, which may not hold every game of an event, and for 2022 from the WXF's book of game records; the 2022 result from Xinhua and Viet Nam News; the Asian Games from Sina and the Hubei Sports Bureau, which with Chinese Wikipedia also gives her biography; the Shanghai Cup semi-final from The Paper; her titles from the WXF title list of December 2022 and China's national registration list of 2023; analysis by Pikafish through Mistboard's review pipeline, October 2026.

Four years after Kuching she still wins most of her games. She went through the spring's team championship without a loss, reached the last four in Shanghai, and won 11 of her 17 games across the two September league events. The world title has gone elsewhere since: to Tang Sinan in 2023 and to Tang Dan in 2025, and Tang Dan beat her at the national individual championship in Jinan in December 2025. What has not changed since 2022 is the opening: she still starts with the elephant, and her wins still come from the other side's first mistake.