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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, and 5x USA National Youth Team member.
This was one of the largest prizes ever won by a Canadian chess player. In 2014, Peng finished in 2nd place in the Kasparov Chess Foundation All-Girls US National Under-16 Championship in Northbrook, Illinois, USA. Peng received her third Kalev Pugi Fund award to represent Canada at the North American Junior (Under-20) Championship.
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.
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. The U.S. women’s team achieved their best-ever finish in the tournament, placing 4th. [31] [32] At age 14, she competed in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, helping Team USA ...
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 ...
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]
Krush has played on the U.S. national team in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1998. The U.S. team won the silver medal in 2004 [12] and bronze in 2008. [13] In 2022, Krush was a member of the U.S. women's team at the 44th Chess Olympiad, [14] where the team placed fourth. [15] She also competed as part of the US team in the Women's World Team ...