Highest-Rated Female Chess Players of All Time

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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:

#	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	2608	Sep 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	Alexandra Kosteniuk	RUS	2561	Jan 2018
15	Maia Chiburdanidze	GEO	2560	Jan 1988
16	Alisa Galliamova	RUS	2560	Jul 1998
17	Antoaneta Stefanova	BUL	2560	Jan 2003
18	Kateryna Lagno	UKR	2560	Dec 2018
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
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