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List Of Female Chess Players
This article lists female chess players who have received official World Chess Federation (FIDE) titles or are otherwise renowned as women in chess. Grandmasters There are 40 female players who have been awarded the title of Grandmaster, the highest lifetime title in chess, all of whom are living as of September 2022. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * International Masters As of March 2022, there are 134 women who hold the International Master title, all but seven of whom are living. (Deceased players noted by † symbol.) * Olga Alexandrova * Bibisara Assaubayeva * Silvia Alexieva * Karina Ambartsumova * Meri Arabidze * Ekaterina Atalik * Medina Warda Aulia * Olga Badelka * Batchimeg Tuvshintugs * Irina Berezina * Alina Bivol * Anastasia Bodnaruk * Nataša Bojković * Angela Borsuk * Marina Brunello * Nataliya Buksa * Irina Bulmaga * Elisaveta Bykova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE was founded in Paris, France, on July 20, 1924.World Chess Federation FIDE (April 8, 2009). Retrieved on 2013-07-28. Its motto is ''Gens una sumus'', Latin for "We are one Family". In 1999, FIDE was recognized by the (IOC). As of May 2022, there are 200 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoang Thanh Trang
Hoàng Thanh Trang (born 25 April 1980) is a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess grandmaster. She was Asian women's champion in 2000 and European women's champion in 2013. Hoang competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018. Early life and career Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Hoàng Thanh Trang moved with her family to Budapest when she was ten years old. She was taught how to play chess at four and half years old by her father, who is her coach. Thanh Trang played in the 1995 Women's Interzonal Tournament in Chișinău. She won the World Girls U-20 Championship in 1998. In 2000, she won Asian Women's Championship in Udaipur. She won the gold medal as the best player on board 1 at the 2005 European Club Cup for Women in Saint-Vincent, Aosta Valley, with a score of 80.0%. The following year she transferred national federations from Vietnam to Hungary. In 2007, she became Grandmaster; the twelfth woman to reach that ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peng Zhaoqin
Peng Zhaoqin (; born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player. In October 2004, she was the eleventh woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster. She won three times the Chinese women's chess championship, in 1987, 1990 and 1993. She has resided in the Netherlands since 1996. Peng has won the Dutch women's championship an unprecedented fourteen times, landing her first title in 1997 and then winning twelve more in an uninterrupted sequence from 2000 to 2011. She tied for first with Alexandra Kosteniuk at the European Women's Chess Championship of 2004 in Dresden, and took the silver medal on tiebreak. Thanks to this result, Peng was awarded the title of Grandmaster. In the 2011 Dutch women's championship, Peng won nine games out of ten, placing a full three points ahead of her closest competitor. See also *Chess in China China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Muzychuk
Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk ( uk, Марі́я Оле́гівна Музичу́к; born 21 September 1992) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from April 2015 to March 2016. She is also a twice women's champion of Ukraine (2012, 2013), World Team and European Team champion with Ukraine in 2013. Muzychuk has experienced multiple successes with Ukraine at the Women's Chess Olympiad winning gold in 2022, silver in 2018 and bronze in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Career Born in Lviv, Mariya Muzychuk was first taught chess at age two by her parents and at age three she knew all the chess pieces. At age six, Muzychuk took part in her first chess tournament. Muzychuk won the under-10 girls' section at the 2002 European Youth Chess Championship in Peniscola, Spain. In November 2010 she was ranked as the fifth highest rated under-20 female player in the world. She made it to the top-16 of the 2010 Women's World Chess Championship, but lost to Dronavalli Harika i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk ( uk, Анн́а Оле́гівна Музичу́к; sl, Ana Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2014 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up. Muzychuk grew up in a chess family where her younger sister Mariya also became a Grandmaster and her parents work as chess coaches, having taught her the game from when she was two years old. She soon established herself as a chess prodigy, first winning the European Youth Chess Championships at age six in the under-8 girls' category and later winning the under-10, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lei Tingjie
Lei Tingjie (born 13 March 1997) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She was the 2021 Women's Grand Swiss champion, the 2017 Chinese women's national champion and the 2022-23 Women's Candidates winner. Lei earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at age 19, and was just the sixth woman in history to obtain the title as a teenager. Career In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi on tie-break from Ju Wenjun and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2015, she won the women's open event of the Moscow Open, ahead of World Junior Girls Champion Aleksandra Goryachkina. Lei competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, where she was knocked out in the second round by top seed Humpy Koneru. In December 2015, Lei tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Zubarev, Olexandr Bortnyk, Jure Skoberne and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd Böblingen International Open scoring 7/9 points. In 2016, she played on the gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Lagno
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno (russian: Екатерина Александровна Лагно, ; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years, four months and two days. In 2007, she was awarded the grandmaster title. She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, playing for Ukraine and Russia respectively. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017,2021 playing for Russian team. Lagno won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. Lagno was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019. Chess career 1999–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Krush
Irina Borisivna Krush ( uk, Ірина Борисівна Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess Grandmaster. She is the first woman, and as of August 2022 the only woman, to earn the GM title while playing for the United States. Krush is an eight-time U.S. Women's Champion. Early life Irina Krush was born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine). She learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year (1989). Chess career At age 14, Krush won the 1998 U.S. Women's Chess Championship to become the youngest U.S. women's champion ever. She has won the championship on seven other occasions, in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2020. In 1999, Krush took part in the "Kasparov versus the World" chess competition. Garry Kasparov played the white pieces and the Internet public, via a Microsoft host website, voted on moves for the black pieces, guided by the recommendations of Krush and three of her contemporaries, Étienne Bacrot, Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster who is the former Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021, and the former Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016). Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014; the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017; and the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017; and the Women's Chess World Cup 2021. Chess career Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess trainer. 1994 Alexandra won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Kosintseva
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Kosintseva is a two-time European women's champion and three-time Russian women's champion. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010 and 2012, and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009 and 2011. Career Kosintseva started to play chess at 6 years old along with elder sister Nadezhda, when coming back home from dance lessons with their mother they happened upon a chess club and decided then and there to take up the game. As a youngster, she recalls being inspired by a book of former world champion Alexander Alekhine's games and was similarly impressed by the games of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer. At the World Youth Chess Championships, she earned silver medals at the Girls Under 10 (Cala Galdana, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Kosintseva
Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born 14 January 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010 and 2012, and in the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009 and 2011. Career At the European Youth Chess Championship, Kosintseva took gold medals in 1995 (Girls Under-10, Verdun), 1997 (Girls Under-12, Tallinn, Estonia) and 2000 (Girls Under-18, Kallithea, Greece). At the World Youth Chess Championship of 1998, held in Oropesa del Mar, Spain, she took the gold medal in the Girls Under-14 event. She was twice the bronze medalist at the World Junior Chess Championship (Girls, Under-20) in 2001 and 2002. In 2005, she tied for first place with Kateryna Lahno in the European Individual Women's Championship, held in Chișinău, Moldova. Kosintseva took the silver medal after losing the playoff match. In the 2007 editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koneru Humpy
Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess player best known for winning the FIDE Women's rapid chess championship in 2019. In 2002, she became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgár's previous record by three months (this record was subsequently broken by Hou Yifan in 2008). In October 2007, Humpy became the second female player, after Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606. Career Humpy won three gold medals at the World Youth Chess Championship: in 1997 (under-10 girls' division), 1998 (under-12 girls) and 2000 (under-14 girls). In 1999, at the Asian Youth Chess Championship, held in Ahmedabad, she won the under-12 section, competing with the boys. In 2001 Humpy won the World Junior Girls Championship. In the following year's edition, she tied for first place with Zhao Xue, but placed second on tiebreak. She became the eighth ever female Grandmaster in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
