In the last list of titles approved by FIDE, Tran Thanh Hoang of Hungary (orginally from Vietnam) was confirmed with the GM title. She is currently the #19 woman player in the world with a rating of 2466.
In the current list of titles approved by FIDE, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine is confirmed for the GM title. She is currently the 30th woman player in the world with a 2450 rating.
Congratulations to both ladies for entering the history book!
Here is the current list of female players who are Grandmasters:
Susan Polgar
Judit Polgar
Pia Cramling
Chen Zhu
Antoaneta Stefanova
Humpy Koneru
Tran Thanh Hoang
Kateryna Lahno
Nona Gaprindashvili (WWC)
Maia Chiburdanidze (WWC)
Jun Xie (WWC)
Yuhua Xu (WWC)
Alexandra Kosteniuk (EWC)
Zhaoqin Peng (EWC)
Natalia Zhukova of the Ukraine and Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi also have 3 GM norms but they need ratings of 2500 to receive their GM titles.
I thought that you had to get a rating of 2500 in addition to 3 norms to get the GM title.
I think her rating was above 2500 before.
A strange order – I thought Nona G was the first woman to earn the Grandmaster title.
I think Susan posted by the categories how they obtained the GM title. I believe WWC = Getting the title by being the Women’s World Champion. EWC = European Women’s Champion. The rest got their titles the traditional way.
I believe Vijayalaxmi from India also has 3 norms thought not the 2500 rating.
fact is its easier for women to get the GM title. they win a female event, and they get it. how high rated could that event possibly be? it avoids the regular norms and required rating. Now you even have the us woman champion plus the 2 and 3 placed women getting into the fide world championship. its just crazy
and completely unfair to men. a male fm is at least as strong as most of them. and an IM is stronger than basicly all of them, wit maybe a few being equal. Clearly though none of them have 2500 ratings. used to be a GM under 2500 was just a GM who was basicly retired.
I don’t think Nona G got her title just by being the Women’s World Champion.
I suspect there was a recognition that her play merited the GM title, and that her ELO had been held back by the lack of opportunity to play men at chess.
Lahno’s top rating was 2509 in Oct ’05 and 2500 in Jan ’06. If this happened after her first norm, it should be ok.
In the Fide rating chart, I don’t see Hoang crossing 2500 in last 7 years (her highest was 2493, Oct ’00).
Did she do it before that or there are more complicate rules for the GM title? Or is that she is waiting for her rating to cross 2500, like Vijayalakshmi and Zhukova?
Its Antoaneta.
sometimes they cross 2500 rating level even though its not in published rating list. It is offcially allowed. For example, if u r on 2493, in the next tourny you play well and cross 2500 but next tourny you play poorly and overall rating drops in published rating list. That is why some of them are GM.
Thanks for the explanation. Indeed that must have been the case. Now I remember reading somewhere that infact one could even pass 2500 in the middle of the tournament and players could disregard the rest of the games for the purpose of title application.