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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
List of female chess players; F. List of female chess grandmasters; List of female winners of open chess tournaments This page was last edited on 19 August 2024, at ...
Female chess players by nationality (72 C) A. Albanian chess players ... Japanese chess players (11 P) Jordanian chess players (3 P) K. Kazakhstani chess players (1 C ...
Pages in category "Japanese chess players" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Mirai Aoshima; H.
Judit Polgár, widely acknowledged as the greatest female chess player in history, has won the most high-level open tournaments among women by far. Some of her strongest victories in classical came in the four-player double round-robin Crown division in Hoogeveen, where she won four times and regularly faced competition averaging near or above ...
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 by nationality (72 C) G. Female chess grandmasters (43 P) W. Chess Woman Candidate Masters (12 P) Chess Woman FIDE Masters (113 P)
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 ...