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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 ]
Peng represented Canada on its team at the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Győr, Hungary. In 2015, Peng was awarded Life Membership in the Chess Federation of Canada. She tied for 1st place in the 12th Kasparov Chess Foundation All-Girls US National Under-18 Championship in Chicago, USA.
Megan Lee is a chess Woman International Master. [1] She won the Washington State Championship in 2020 [2] and 2022, and the 2019 U.S. Women's Open.Previously, Lee won the 2013 North American Youth U18 Girls Championship and the 2009 Kasparov All-Girls Nationals Championship.
So far, she has won three medals: two from the Chess Olympiads (a team bronze and an individual silver) and one from the World Team Championships (an individual gold). At age 13, Lee played on the top board for Team USA at the 2023 World Women's Team Championship, where she won the individual gold medal with a score of 7.5/11.
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 ...
Rochelle Ballantyne (born 1995) is an American chess player. She is best known for appearing in the 2012 documentary Brooklyn Castle. Her USCF rating is 1988, putting her in the 99th percentile of American junior players. [1] Her FIDE rating is 1912, [2] with her highest rating achieved being 1954 in January 2012.
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]
In 2010, as the head coach for the Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team, Susan Polgar became the first woman to lead a chess team to the Final Four. [25] In April 2011 the Texas Tech Knight Raiders won the President's Cup; [26] this made Polgar the first female head coach to lead a chess team to the national title. [25] They won again in 2012. [27]