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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 ...
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
Anna Yolanda Cramling Bellón (born 30 April 2002) is a Swedish-Spanish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM). She had a peak FIDE rating of 2175 in March 2018.
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.
Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021, 2023, and 2024 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. [1] [2] In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States [3] and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten.
Anna-Maja Kazarian (born 7 January 2000) is a Dutch chess player and Twitch live streamer who holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and Woman International Master (WIM). She was the 2020 Dutch Women's Internet Chess Champion and has also been an under-16 girls' European Youth Champion. Kazarian has a peak FIDE rating of 2320, which she achieved ...
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 ...
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.