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The top 10 active women Indian players have an average rating of 2429, the 2nd highest in the world behind China. As of 2023, 24 different players have been conferred with the highest civilian and sports honours of India, including the Padma awards and the Arjuna Award .
Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) [2] is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, [3] [4] one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 [3] [5] and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, [6] 2018, [7] and 2019. [8]
Formerly highest-ranked American female player (2002) 54 China: Qin Kanying: 2501 2000-07 1974 Moldova France: Almira Skripchenko: 2501 2003-01 1976 Formerly highest-ranked Moldovan female player (1995–2001), highest-ranked French female player (2002–2007) India: Divya Deshmukh: 2501 2024-10 2005 57 Georgia: Lela Javakhishvili: 2500 2010-03 ...
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 ...
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
She is the reigning Nationals Women Chess Champion in 2024. Nandhidhaa won an individual Gold in Asian Chess Championship held at New Delhi on 3 November 2022, making her only the 9th Indian Women to clinch the Asian Gold. She scored an unbeaten and impressive 7.5/9 to clinch the title, thereby also qualifying for the Women's Chess World Cup 2023.
Sahithi Varshini Moogi (born 27 April 2007) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Fide Master (FM) [4] 2023, Woman International Master (WIM) 2022, [2] [3] Woman Fide Master (WFM) [4] 2019, and Woman Candidate Master ( 2017). [1] [5] Sahithi represented Indian chess team in the 44th Chess Olympiad, 2022.
Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021. [4] She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. [7] She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team. [8] [9] As of December 2024, she is the 2nd ranked woman chess player in ...