FIDE Committee for Women's Chess New Website

FIDE Committee for Women's Chess New Website

WELCOME TO THE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN'S CHESS (WOM) WEBSITE!

The WOM is happy to welcome all of you to our webpage!! Our goal is to inform you all about women history, present players, future events and much more ! Our commission is working hard to improve the situation for women in the chess world in all areas such as players, trainers, arbiters and organisers. We will really appreciate all your comments and ideas to help us improve!

Best Wishes
WOM

http://womenchess.fide.com/index.php

Top 10 women players in the world

Active list:

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682	0	1976
2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2600	11	1987
3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2577	36	1994
4	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2562	11	1986
5	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2560	0	1979 (Former women's world champion)
6	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2551	10	1985
7	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2535	4	1989
8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2527	21	1990
9	Cmilyte, Viktorija	m	LTU	2527	7	1983
10	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2519	7	1986

Complete list

3. Polgar, Susan USA/HUN 2577 1969 (Former women's world champion and Olympiad Champion)
5. Xie, Jun CHI 2574 1970 (Former women's world champion and Olympiad Champion)

USA September 2009 FIDE rating list

United States of America (All players)

#	Name	Title	Fed	Rating	G	B-Year
1	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2735	17	1987
2	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2699	0	1975
3	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2692	32	1974
4	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	2646	0	1960
5	Shulman, Yuri	g	USA	2638	9	1975
6	Akobian, Varuzhan	g	USA	2636	9	1983
7-8	Ehlvest, Jaan	g	USA	2607	28	1962
7-8	Shabalov, Alexander	g	USA	2607	26	1967
9	Gurevich, Ilya	g	USA	2586	0	1972
10	Kaidanov, Gregory S	g	USA	2583	0	1959
11	Christiansen, Larry M	g	USA	2578	0	1956
12-13	Ibragimov, Ildar	g	USA	2577	6	1967
12-13	Polgar, Zsuzsa (Susan)	g	USA	2577	0	1969
14	Kudrin, Sergey	g	USA	2573	38	1959
15	Hess, Robert L	g	USA	2572	27	1991
16	Benjamin, Joel	g	USA	2566	17	1964
17	Wolff, Patrick G	g	USA	2564	0	1968
18	Novikov, Igor A	g	USA	2560	0	1962
19	Goldin, Alexander	g	USA	2557	0	1965
20	Friedel, Joshua E	g	USA	2555	19	1986
21-22	Stripunsky, Alexander	g	USA	2553	16	1970
21-22	De Firmian, Nick E	g	USA	2553	10	1957
23-24	Alburt, Lev O	g	USA	2550	0	1945
23-24	Dzindzichashvili, Roman	g	USA	2550	0	1944
25	Ivanov, Alexander	g	USA	2549	29	1956
26	Gulko, Boris F	g	USA	2546	0	1947
27-28	Lenderman, Alex	m	USA	2542	39	1989
27-28	Perelshteyn, Eugene	g	USA	2542	17	1980
29	Wilder, Michael	g	USA	2540	0	1962
30-31	Becerra Rivero, Julio	g	USA	2533	17	1973
30-31	Schwartzman, Gabriel	g	USA	2533	0	1976
32-33	Khachiyan, Melikset	g	USA	2528	11	1970
32-33	Yermolinsky, Alex	g	USA	2528	8	1958
34-35	Robson, Ray	m	USA	2527	25	1994
34-35	Kavalek, Lubomir	g	USA	2527	0	1943
36	Kraai, Jesse	g	USA	2526	36	1972
37	Tarjan, James E	g	USA	2525	0	1952
38	Serper, Grigory	g	USA	2522	0	1969
39	Fishbein, Alexander	g	USA	2520	0	1968
40	Dlugy, Maxim	g	USA	2518	0	1966
41	Finegold, Benjamin	m	USA	2515	8	1969
42	Sevillano, Enrico	m	USA	2512	18	1968
43	Sokolin, Leonid M	m	USA	2508	0	1966
44	Gurevich, Dmitry	g	USA	2506	22	1956
45	Rogoff, Kenneth S	g	USA	2505	0	1953
46	Sherzer, Alex	g	USA	2504	0	1971
47	Guerrero, Gilbert		USA	2500	0
48	Dozorets, Anatoly	f	USA	2495	0	1957
49	Addison, Wiliam G	m	USA	2490	0	1933
50	Gonzalez, Renier	g	USA	2485	0	1972

United States of America (All players) Only Women

#	Name	Title	Fed	Rating	G	B-Year
1	Polgar, Zsuzsa (Susan)	g	USA	2577	0	1969
2	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2462	9	1978
3	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2458	16	1983
4	Levitina, Irina S	wg	USA	2405	0	1954
5	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2391	0	1980
6	Donaldson-A., Elena	wg	USA	2375	0	1957
7	Rohonyan, Katerina	wg	USA	2329	0	1984
8	Shahade, Jennifer	wg	USA	2322	0	1980
9	Foisor, Sabina-Francesca	wg	USA	2320	27	1989
10	Baginskaite, Camilla	wg	USA	2317	0	1967
11	Akhsharumova, Anna M	wg	USA	2310	0	1957
12	Belakovskaia, Anjelina	wg	USA	2288	0	1969
13	Zenyuk, Iryna	c	USA	2285	7	1986
14-15	Abrahamyan, Tatev	wf	USA	2275	6	1988
14-15	Gershnik, Anna	wg	USA	2275	0	1975
16	Grinfeld, Alla B	wg	USA	2259	0	1953
17	Battsetseg, Tsagaan	wm	USA	2258	0	1972
18	Savereide, Diane	wm	USA	2250	0	1954
19	Hahn, Anna	wm	USA	2235	0	1976
20-21	Melekhina, Alisa	wm	USA	2220	39	1991
20-21	Levitan, Yuliya	wm	USA	2220	0	1973
22	Eynullaeva, Roza	wf	USA	2198	0	1987
23	Tverskaya, Julia	wm	USA	2195	0	1959
24	Epstein, Esther	wm	USA	2194	0	1954
25	Tsodikova, Natalia		USA	2190	0
26	Shiber, Julia	wf	USA	2182	0	1974
27	Koren, Inna	wm	USA	2180	0	1964
28-29	Marshall, Abby	wf	USA	2179	6	1991
28-29	Marinello, Beatriz M.	wm	USA	2179	0	1964
30	Herstein, Ruth		USA	2170	0

Source: FIDE - September 2009

FIDE Women's Chess Committee

9 March 2009

GM Susan Polgar

Dear Susan,

I am glad to appoint you as Co-Chairperson of the Commission for Women’s Chess with immediate effect until the next FIDE Elections in 2010.

I am aware of your enormous contributions in the development and popularisation of chess and am confident that you and your members will further the good work.

Our General Secretary Mr Ignatius Leong will liaise with you and your Commission. Thank you.

Yours sincerely
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
President