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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.
Formerly female world no. 1 (1983, 1984), highest-ranked Swedish female player (since 1981) 22 China Qatar: Zhu Chen: 2548 2008-01 1976 Former women's world champion (2001–2004), highest-ranked Qatari female player (since 2006) Russia: Valentina Gunina: 2548 2015-06 1989 24 India: Harika Dronavalli: 2543 2016-11 1991 25 Lithuania
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
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 ...
1986: FIDE decided to grant 100 bonus Elo rating points to all active female players except Susan Polgár, which knocked her from the top spot in the January 1987 FIDE ratings list. The rationale was that the FIDE ratings of women were not commensurate with the ratings of the men because the women tended to play in women-only tournaments ...
The top 100 junior players of the world include 20 Indian players, among them Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu at Rank 2, Arjun Erigaisi at Rank 5, Gukesh D at rank 6, and Nihal Sarin at Rank 8. [7] The top 100 junior girl players of the world include 7 Indian players, among them Velpula Sarayu at rank 2, Divya Deshmukh at rank 5 and Savitha Shri B at ...
[43] [44] In 2023, together with the same club- they became European Women's Club Cup winners in Durres, Albania. [45] Since 2012 she has constantly been in the FIDE Top 100 rated Women in the world [46] and since December 2016 up to this day- the 1st rated Woman in Romania. [47] [48] Her sister, Elena Bulmaga, also is a chess player. [49] [50]
G. Zsóka Gaál; Marina Gajcin; Alisa Galliamova; Lilit Galojan; Inna Gaponenko; Nona Gaprindashvili; Anita Gara; Ticia Gara; Marta García Martín; Leya Garifullina