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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 ...
Judit Polgár, widely acknowledged as the greatest female chess player in history, has won the most high-level open tournaments among women by far. Some of her strongest victories in classical came in the four-player double round-robin Crown division in Hoogeveen, where she won four times and regularly faced competition averaging near or above ...
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.
List of female chess players; F. List of female chess grandmasters; List of female winners of open chess tournaments This page was last edited on 19 August 2024, at ...
In 1996 Judit Polgár became the first woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, [55] in 2002 she became the first female chess player to defeat the reigning world number one (Garry Kasparov) in a game, [56] [57] and in 2005 she became the first female player to play for a small-scale World Chess Championship, which she did in the ...
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
It includes American chess players that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American female chess players" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total.