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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.
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.
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 ...
Botez began playing chess in Canada at age six and won her first girls' national championship at age eight. She later moved back to the United States where she was born and won U.S. Girls Nationals at age 15. Botez began streaming chess content online in 2016 while she was a student at Stanford University. Her sister Andrea appeared on occasion ...
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.
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. [2] In April 2011 the Texas Tech Knight Raiders won the President's Cup; [3] this made Polgar the first female head coach to lead a chess team to the national title. [2]
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