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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.
- Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess...
- Judit Polgár
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling [1] (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess grandmaster. Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest female players in the world as well as having been the highest-rated woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three occasions.
Grandmasters. 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. Zhansaya Abdumalik (Kazakhstan)
- Turbulent Teenage Years
- Time For Chess!
- Women’s World Champion
- A First Super-Tournament
- Praise from Alekhine
- A Foreigner in Britain
Vera Menchik’s story was far from ordinary from the beginning. She was born on February 16, 1906 in Moscow. Her father was Czech and her mother English, although only partially, as British newspapers dutifully pointed out. Both of her parents worked in Russia—her father as a manager of estates for wealthy families, her mother as a governess. Vera g...
It was in England that Menchik took up chess in earnest. As she explained, part of the reason was her poor command of the language: In 1924, Vera joined Hastings Chess Club and put in a lot of work into studying chess. She also started taking private lessons. Her first chess coach was a local player, John A.J. Drewitt, who taught her the closed ope...
By this point, Menchik had already established herself as the strongest woman player in the world. She won the inaugural Women’s World Chess Championship that took place in July 1927 in London, on the sidelines of the first Chess Olympiad, with the impressive score +10=1. The Women’s Championship was a relatively low-key affair, and only in Novembe...
Carlsbad 1929 featured an incredibly strong line-up: Capablanca, Rubinstein, Euwe, Nimzowitsch, Bogoljubov, Tartakower, Marshall, etc. Of the strongest players in the world, only Alekhine and Lasker were absent. The tournament turned out to be the highlight of Aron Nimzovich’s career—he finished clear first with an impressive 15/21. It was a first ...
In the end, Menchik only scored three points from 21 games at Carlsbad, but her performance was still regarded a success. Alexander Alekhine, who published a series of articles on the tournament in The New York Times, wrote the following at the end of round 15: The World Champion’s call was heard, and Menchik continued to receive invitations to men...
Despite living in England for many years, Menchik was considered a foreigner until the late 1930s and was thus ineligible for the national competitions. In fact, Menchik’s citizenship brought her complications for most of her life. When she won her first World Championship title, the British newspapers referred to her as a “Russian refugee.” In the...
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May 10, 2021 · Few people know the story of Vera Menchik yet it deserves to be told. She was the first women’s world chess champion in 1927 and retained the title undefeated until her untimely death at the age of 38 in 1944 during a V1 flying bomb attack on London.
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Dec 8, 2022 · FIDE has awarded the GM title to Elisabeth Paehtz, who thus becomes the 40th woman player in history to become a grandmaster, the highest title in chess.
