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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 ...
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. ...
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.
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 ...
Female chess players by nationality (72 C) G. Female chess grandmasters (43 P) W. Chess Woman Candidate Masters (12 P) Chess Woman FIDE Masters (113 P)
Earlier in the month, 14 of France’s top female players wrote an open letter, “denouncing the sexist or sexual violence they have suffered” in the chess community, with over 100 women in ...
It includes American chess players that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American female chess players" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total.