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This list of female chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. It includes the preceding lists of Grandmasters and International Masters. FIDE title abbreviations: GM – grandmaster; IM – International Master; FM – FIDE Master; WGM – Woman Grandmaster
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
Female chess players in the modern era generally compete in a mix of open and women's tournaments. With women representing a low fraction of all chess players throughout history, it has been uncommon for women to win open tournaments where women and men are mixed together, particularly at the higher levels.
Alexandra Valeria Botez (/ ˈ b oʊ t ɛ z / BOH-tez; born 1995) [4] is an American and Canadian chess player, poker player, online streamer and YouTuber. In chess, she holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) and has a peak FIDE rating of 2092. She is a five-time Canadian girls' national champion and one-time U.S. girls' national champion.
Pages in category "Lists of female chess players" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In 1996 Judit Polgár became the first woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, [55] in 2002 she became the first female chess player to defeat the reigning world number one (Garry Kasparov) in a game, [56] [57] and in 2005 she became the first female player to play for a small-scale World Chess Championship, which she did in the ...
Both of her parents are chess players and both hold the Grandmaster (GM) title. Her mother was No. 1 in the world among women by FIDE rating in 1984 and became the fifth woman ever to achieve the GM title in 1992. [7] [8] Her father is a five-time Spanish champion. [7] Cramling began playing chess at age three. [9]
Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya was born on 22 December 1993 in St. Petersburg. [2] Her mother Asya Kovalyova has been a children's chess coach for over 30 years and notably was the first coach of Anish Giri, who has since become a Grandmaster (GM) and has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the world.