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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 ...
In 1884 the first women's chess tournament was held; it was sponsored by the Sussex Chess Association. [39] In 1897 the first women's international chess tournament was held, which Mary Rudge won. [40] In 1927 the first Women's World Chess Championship was held, which Vera Menchik won. [1] A woman playing chess by radio in 1922
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 ...
The world governing body of competitive chess, International Chess Federation, FIDE, is effectively banning transgender women from competing.
The FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 was a chess tournament, FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, that forms part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2022. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament , with up to 50 players competing, ran from 27 October to 7 November 2021 in Riga , Latvia , in parallel ...
An eight-year-old British schoolgirl “phenomenon” won the women’s first prize in the Blitz category at this year’s European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia.
The current Women's World Champion and highest rated woman Hou Yifan was playing on board one for China, while former Women's World Champions Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Anna Ushenina and Mariya Muzychuk were also part of their national teams. The top seed in the women's event were China with an average rating of 2528.