Highest-Rated Female Chess Players of All Time
Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
As a follow-up to the rankings of the highest-rated chess players comes a list of female players who have been rated over 2500:
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Name
Federation
Highest FIDE rating
Date
1
Judit Polgar
HUN
2735
Jul 2005
2
Yifan Hou
CHN
2686
Mar 2015
3
Koneru Humpy
IND
2623
Jul 2009
4
Aleksandra Goryachkina
RUS
2610
Dec 2021
5
Anna Muzychuk
SLO
2606
Jul 2012
6
Wenjun Ju
CHN
2604
Mar 2017
7
Tatiana
Kosintseva
RUS
2581
Nov 2010
8
Zhao Xue
CHN
2579
Sep 2013
9
Susan Polgar
USA
2577
Jan 2005
10
Nadezhda Kosintseva
RUS
2576
Nov 2010
11
Jun Xie
CHN
2574
Jan 2008
12
Nana Dzagnidze
GEO
2573
Jun 2015
13
Mariya Muzychuk
UKR
2563
Mar 2016
14
Kateryna
Lagno
UKR
2563
Oct 2022
15
Alexandra Kosteniuk
RUS
2561
Jan 2018
16
Maia Chiburdanidze
GEO
2560
Jan 1988
17
Alisa Galliamova
RUS
2560
Jul 1998
18
Antoaneta Stefanova
BUL
2560
Jan 2003
19
Pia Cramling
SWE
2550
Oct 2008
20
Chen Zhu
QAT
2548
Jan 2008
21
Gunina Valentina
RUS
2548
Jun 2015
22
Tingjie Lei
CHN
2545
Mar 2018
23
Dronavalli Harika
IND
2543
Nov 2016
24
Viktoria Cmilyte
LTU
2538
Oct 2016
25
Anna
Zatonskih
USA
2537
May 2011
26
Marie Sebag
FRA
2537
Mar 2013
27
Bela Khotenashvili
GEO
2531
Jun 2013
28
Nino Batsiashvili
GEO
2528
Mar 2018
29
Tan Zhongyi
CHN
2528
Apr 2019
30
Elina Danielian
ARM
2521
Jul 2011
31
Ioseliani Nana
GEO
2520
Jul 1997
32