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In 2019, she won the New York State Scholastic Championships and was the 2023 KCF All-Girls Nationals Champion. [1] She is the highest-rated African-American female chess player in history. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Naomi Bashkansky (born 2003), is an American chess player, a World Schools Chess Champion (Girls U13), [1] a North American Junior Girls Under 20 Champion, [2] and a Woman International Master. [ 3 ] Bashkansky won first place in the 2016 World Schools Chess Championship in Sochi , [ 4 ] and became the 2017 North American Junior Girls Under 20 ...
Jackie Peng (born 1998) is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Among her accomplishments in competitive chess, she was 2011 Canadian Amateur Chess Champion; and she represented Canada on the Women's Team at the 40th Chess Olympiad.
The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [ 1 ] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [ 2 ]
She has won medals at the European Team Chess Championships; a team gold at Pula in 1997 and team silver medals in 1992 and 2005. Despite moving to the UK, Arakhamia continued to represent Georgia for many years, through membership of its national chess federation. She was the Georgian Ladies Champion in 1983, 1984 and 1990. In January 2008 ...
At age 4, Susan Polgar won her first chess tournament, the Budapest Girls' Under-11 Championship, with a 10–0 score. In 1981, at the age of 12, she won the World Under 16 Girls Championship . Despite restrictions on her freedom to play in international tournaments, in July 1984, at age 15, Polgar had become the top-rated female chess player ...
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Lee began competing in the US Girls' Junior Championships when she was 10 years old. At age 13, she won the 2023 US Girls' Junior Championship with a score of 7.5/9, making her the youngest winner in the tournament's history. [23] [24] At age 14, she successfully defended her title at the 2024 US Girls' Junior Championship. [25] [26]