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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.
As a chess writer, she has reported on tournaments home and abroad for periodicals such as CHESS magazine. Houska completed her first chess opening book in 2007. Written for Everyman Chess , it features a treatise on Houska's opening of choice with the Black pieces—the Caro–Kann Defence .
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]
The Polgár sisters (pictured in 1988; left to right Sofia, Judit, and Susan) ushered in the modern era of women's chess. Women represent a small minority of chess players at all ages and levels. Female chess players today generally compete in a mix of open tournaments and women's tournaments, the latter of which are most prominent at or near ...
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.
She also won the National Girls Tournament of Champions three times, tying in 2014 and 2015, and winning outright in 2016. [6] Yu played on the US team at the Women's World Team Chess Championship in 2017 [7] and at the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2018. [8] In the latter event Yu won an individual bronze medal playing board five. [9]
A chess commentator in the fictional series said grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili had never faced men. She had, several times. Netflix Hit With Lawsuit Over Single 'Queen's Gambit' Line About ...
She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016.