Female chess grandmasters

Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to be ranked in the world top 10, the only woman to achieve a rating over 2700, reaching a peak rating of 2735, and the only woman to compete in the final stage of a World Chess Championship. She was the top-rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement from competitive chess in 2014, remaining No. 1 until the March 2015 rating list; her record of 26 consecutive years as woman's No. 1 still stands.

Soviet chess player

Hungarian chess player (born 1969)

Chinese chess player

Russian and Swiss chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Indian chess player

Georgian chess grandmaster

Chinese chess player

Bulgarian chess player

Chinese-Qatari chess player

Chinese chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Chinese chess player

Russian chess player

Lithuanian chess player and politician

Indian Chess.com player

Chinese chess player

Russian chess player

Swedish chess player

Indian chess player

Indian chess player

Georgian chess player

Armenian chess player

Polish chess player

Kazakhstani chess player

Chinese chess player

Russian chess player

Russian chess player

Ukrainian chess grandmaster

Kazakh chess player

German chess player

Chinese chess grandmaster

Georgian chess grandmaster

Russian chess player

French chess player

Ukrainian-born American chess player

Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess player

British chess player

Chinese-Dutch chess player

Georgian chess player

Chinese chess player

Russian chess player

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