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There are 42 female players who have been awarded the title of Grandmaster, [1] the highest lifetime title in chess, all of whom are living as of December 2023.
There are 42 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster title was formally established by FIDE in 1950.
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On the other side are those who argue the gender gap in chess is mainly due to societal and cultural pressures that put women off the game. A commonly cited example is Hungary’s Judit Polgár, considered the strongest female player of all time, and the only woman ever to be ranked in the world’s top ten. Her psychologist father believed geniuses are...
Despite Judit Polgár’s success, stereotypes about female chess players remain. Her older sister Susan, a former women’s world champion, noted: The American Bobby Fischer, on whom The Queen’s Gambit’s lead character is largely based, once saidwomen are “terrible chess players”, later opining that “I don’t think they should mess into intellectual aff...
There is still much to discover about what play the biggest roles in driving the gender performance and participation gaps in chess, what policies can be used to narrow them, and what these insights tell us about other male-dominated fields. What we do know, however, is the chess world is starting to change. In 2001, only 6% of internationally rate...
- David Smerdon
Male chess players greatly outnumber female chess players at all age levels and in the vast majority of tournaments, often by a factor of ten or higher.
Jul 13, 2023 · At the time, not every active player had a rating, and Gaprindashvili was the only woman with one. She became world champion in 1962 and was way ahead of other women playing chess at this time. Between 1971 and 1972, the number of women with a FIDE rating increased from three to 129.
- Nathaniel Green
Jul 21, 2023 · Despite the shorter time period, there have been as many women's champions, 17, as there have been world champions. Whereas the original world championship has almost entirely been decided by match play, the format of the women's championship has been far less consistent.
There are at least 37 active female players today who have been awarded the highest honor – Grand Master title in chess. As of January 2021, the FIDE database lists 121 living women who hold the International Master title.
