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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 ...
Danitza Fernanda Vázquez Maccarini (born April 25, 2000 in Caguas, Puerto Rico) [1] is a chess player from Puerto Rico.After winning the Central American and Caribbean U20 Girls Championship in El Salvador in 2013, [2] she was awarded by FIDE the title Woman International Master (WIM), becoming the youngest one in the world at the time.
Carvalho, Lígia Maria de Abreu (1957–1993) Brazil; Chaudé de Silans, Chantal (1919–2004) France ... Varela La Madrid, Tilsia Carolina (1994) Venezuela – WIM;
The Women's World Chess Championship 2012 was a knockout tournament, to decide the women's world champion. [1] The title was won by Anna Ushenina of Ukraine for the first time. [2]
She started training in Pilar where she is from at age nine, but later received training at the Círculo de Ajedrez de Villa Martelli, a much higher-level chess club in Vicente López Partido closer to the center of Buenos Aires about 50 kilometres from where her family lived.
Current Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun from China. The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its inception in 1927, unlike the absolute World Chess Championship, which only came under FIDE's control in 1948.
1950: Chantal Chaudé de Silans became the first woman to play at a Chess Olympiad. 1950: FIDE introduced the Woman International Master title. [76] 1957: The first Women's Chess Olympiad was held in 1957 and won by the Soviet Union team. [46] [43] [44] [45]
The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals.