List of female chess players
Grandmasters
Columns: Name | Country | Birth Date | Date | Earned | Peak rating (Nov 2012)
Nona Gaprindashvili | Georgia | 1941-05-03 | 1978 | WCC | 2495 | Maia Chiburdanidze | Georgia | 1961-01-17 | 1984 | WCC | 2560 | Susan Polgar | Hungary United States | 1969-04-19 | 1991 | norms | 2577 | Judit Polgár | Hungary | 1976-07-23 | 1991 | norms | 2735 | Xie Jun | China | 1970-10-30 | 1991 | WCC | 2574 | Pia Cramling | Sweden | 1963-04-23 | 1992 | norms | 2550 | Zhu Chen | China Qatar | 1976-03-16 | 2001 | norms | 2548 | Humpy Koneru | India | 1987-03-31 | 2002 | norms | 2623 | Antoaneta Stefanova | Bulgaria | 1979-04-19 | 2003 | norms | 2560 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Russia | 1984-03-23 | 2004 | EWC | 2540 | Peng Zhaoqin | China Netherlands | 1968-05-08 | 2004 | EWC | 2472 | Hoang Thanh Trang | Vietnam Hungary | 1980-04-25 | 2007 | norms | 2501 | Kateryna Lahno | Ukraine | 1989-12-27 | 2007 | norms | 2557 | Xu Yuhua | China | 1976-10-29 | 2007 | WCC | 2517 | Marie Sebag | France | 1986-10-15 | 2008 | norms | 2533 | Zhao Xue | China | 1985-04-06 | 2008 | norms | 2565 | Hou Yifan | China | 1994-02-27 | 2008 | norms | 2639 | Nana Dzagnidze | Georgia | 1987-01-01 | 2008 | norms | 2567 | Monika Soćko | Poland | 1978-03-24 | 2008 | norms | 2505 | Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant | Georgia Scotland | 1968-07-19 | 2009 | norms | 2506 | Tatiana Kosintseva | Russia | 1986-04-11 | 2009 | norms | 2581 | Natalia Zhukova | Ukraine | 1979-06-05 | 2010 | norms | 2499 | Elina Danielian | Armenia | 1978-08-16 | 2010 | norms | 2521 | Viktorija Čmilytė | Lithuania | 1983-08-06 | 2010 | norms | 2528 | Nadezhda Kosintseva | Russia | 1985-01-14 | 2011 | norms | 2576 | Dronavalli Harika | India | 1991-01-12 | 2011 | norms | 2525 | Anna Muzychuk | Ukraine Slovenia | 1990-02-28 | 2012 | norms | 2606 | Anna Ushenina | Ukraine | 1985-08-30 | 2012 | WCC | 2502 | Valentina Gunina | Russia | 1989-02-04 | 2013 | norms | 2533