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  2. List of female chess grandmasters - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Women's World Chess Championship - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. FIDE rankings - Wikipedia

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    The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls" and rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players in the classical time control.

  5. Top female chess master will face challengers at Quincy ... - AOL

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    One of only 41 female grandmasters in the world, she'll play dozens of players at the same time. Girls and woman are especially encouraged.

  6. Women's World Chess Championship 2023 - Wikipedia

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    The 2023 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by the defending champion, Ju Wenjun , and her challenger, Lei Tingjie , the winner of the 2022–23 Candidates tournament .

  7. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating - Wikipedia

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    Youngest female grandmaster (since 2008), female world no. 1 (since 2015), highest-ranked Chinese female player (since 2008) 3 India: Koneru Humpy: 2623 2009-07 1987 Highest-ranked Indian female player (since 2001), formerly youngest female grandmaster (2002–2008) 4 Russia: Aleksandra Goryachkina: 2611 2021-08 1998

  8. Women's World Chess Championship 2025 - Wikipedia

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    The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 will take place in 2025 as a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] Both players previously challenged for the world championship in May 2018 , with Ju defeating then-world champion Tan 5½–4½ to win the title.

  9. Women's event at the 45th Chess Olympiad - Wikipedia

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    India won the gold medal in the Women's event, which was their first overall win at the Chess Olympiads. [3] Kazakhstan won the silver and the United States took the bronze medals. [4] Dana Kochavi, playing as a reserve for Israel, had the highest rating performance of 2676 by achieving a perfect score of 8 out of 8 possible points. [5]