Top 50 Women Chess Players !
(FIDE) TOP 50 WOMEN CHESS PLAYERS
Congratulations to all the women who made it to the Top 50 Women Chess Players list!
There are some interesting statistics associated with the top two women players in the world.
Player #1, GM Judith Polgar has ranked # 1 in the top Women’s Players list 29 times.
Player #2, GM Humpy Koneru has ranked # 1 in the top Girl’s Players list 22 times.
The best USA player in this list is IM Irina Krush , who is also our 2007 US Women’s Champion!
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Rank |
Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2708 | 9 | 1976 |
| 2 | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2606 | 27 | 1987 |
| 3 | Cramling, Pia | g | SWE | 2531 | 20 | 1963 |
| 4 | Zhu, Chen | g | QAT | 2531 | 9 | 1976 |
| 5 | Zhao, Xue | wg | CHN | 2530 | 36 | 1985 |
| 6 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | g | RUS | 2515 | 0 | 1984 |
| 7 | Sebag, Marie | m | FRA | 2509 | 12 | 1986 |
| 8 | Hou, Yifan | wg | CHN | 2502 | 19 | 1994 |
| 9 | Chiburdanidze, Maia | g | GEO | 2500 | 10 | 1961 |
| 10 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | m | RUS | 2492 | 10 | 1986 |
| 11 | Ushenina, Anna | m | UKR | 2486 | 19 | 1985 |
| 12 | Harika, Dronavalli | m | IND | 2480 | 28 | 1991 |
| 13 | Krush, Irina | m | USA | 2475 | 22 | 1983 |
| 14 | Javakhishvili, Lela | m | GEO | 2474 | 16 | 1984 |
| 15 | Socko, Monika | m | POL | 2473 | 27 | 1978 |
| 16 | Muzychuk, Anna | wg | SLO | 2469 | 19 | 1990 |
| 17 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2469 | 10 | 1985 |
| 18 | Hoang Thanh Trang | g | HUN | 2466 | 0 | 1980 |
| 19 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | m | LTU | 2464 | 10 | 1983 |
| 20 | Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman | m | IND | 2464 | 0 | 1979 |
| 21 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | g | BUL | 2463 | 29 | 1979 |
| 22 | Pogonina, Natalija | wg | RUS | 2462 | 27 | 1985 |
| 23 | Galliamova, Alisa | m | RUS | 2460 | 9 | 1972 |
| 24 | Lahno, Kateryna | g | UKR | 2459 | 9 | 1989 |
| 25 | Danielian, Elina | m | ARM | 2458 | 18 | 1978 |
| 26 | Zatonskih, Anna | m | USA | 2458 | 11 | 1978 |
| 27 | Ruan, Lufei | CHN | 2453 | 19 | 1987 | |
| 28 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | m | GER | 2452 | 18 | 1985 |
| 29 | Zhukova, Natalia | wg | UKR | 2452 | 0 | 1979 |
| 30 | Shen, Yang | wg | CHN | 2450 | 21 | 1989 |
| 31 | Khurtsidze, Nino | m | GEO | 2450 | 0 | 1975 |
| 32 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | m | RUS | 2448 | 19 | 1974 |
| 33 | Dembo, Yelena | m | GRE | 2448 | 18 | 1983 |
| 34 | Hunt, Harriet V | m | ENG | 2448 | 0 | 1978 |
| 35 | Korbut, Ekaterina | m | RUS | 2443 | 10 | 1985 |
| 36 | Gaponenko, Inna | m | UKR | 2440 | 55 | 1976 |
| 37 | Skripchenko, Almira | m | FRA | 2438 | 5 | 1976 |
| 38 | Matveeva, Svetlana | m | RUS | 2433 | 20 | 1969 |
| 39 | Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | m | GEO | 2432 | 26 | 1968 |
| 40 | Bojkovic, Natasa | wg | SRB | 2428 | 17 | 1971 |
| 41 | Peng, Zhaoqin | g | NED | 2419 | 10 | 1968 |
| 42 | Li, Ruofan | wg | SIN | 2417 | 0 | 1978 |
| 43 | Mohota, Nisha | wg | IND | 2416 | 57 | 1980 |
| 44 | Dzagnidze, Nana | m | GEO | 2416 | 27 | 1987 |
| 45 | Huang, Qian | wm | CHN | 2416 | 19 | 1986 |
| 46 | Tania, Sachdev | wg | IND | 2413 | 43 | 1986 |
| 47 | Moser, Eva | m | AUT | 2412 | 28 | 1982 |
| 48 | Rajlich, Iweta | m | POL | 2411 | 17 | 1981 |
| 49 | Ciuksyte, Dagne | m | ENG | 2411 | 11 | 1977 |
| 50 | Wang, Pin | wg | CHN | 2410 | 0 | 1974 |