2 additional women players have fulfilled their GM norms requirement and will get their GM titles IF they can meet the 2500 rating requirement:
IM Hoang, Thanh Trang (Originally from Vietnam, now playing for Hungary) 2470
IM Zhukova, Nathalia (Ukraine) 2456
Women who earned their GM titles with 3 norms and 2500 rating
Polgar, S (WC)
Polgar, J
Cramling, P
Chen, Zhu (WC)
Stefanova, A (WC)
Koneru, H
Women who earned their titles with other methods
Gaprindashvili, N (WC)
Chiburdanidze, C (WC)
Xie, Jun (WC)
Kosteniuk, A
Peng, Z
The following women just earned their IM titles:
Lujan, Carolina (Argentina)
Atalik, Ekaterina (Turkey)
Ushenina, Anna (Ukraine)
Congratulations!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I hope both will become the 7th and 8th women to earn their GM titles.
Chess needs a boost in popularity for USA. I hope IM Irina Krush gets the GM title soon.
And… do not forget your own sister, Sofia Polgar, IM rated 2459!
World Youth Under 18 Girls Gold Medallist WGM D. Harika (ELO 2421) should be an IM in the nexst list as she has 4 norms and completed her rating requirement in the January list. She beat GM Kevin Spraggett (ELO 2633) in Gibraltar and is on course to become a GM as well!
What are the other methods (than ‘norm’) for becoming a GM
I was wondering that myself. Winning the European Women’s Championship, maybe? (Kosteniuk, Peng?)
Winning the world junior, certainly.
I am not too familiar with the process to become a GM but I am wondering if you need to win a FIDE tournament to become a GM. I think that should be a requirement and the minimum rating should be raised to 2600 for the GM Title to keep its allure.
winning a continental championship or olympiad with 2600+ performance or winning WWC or winning world jr is eligible to get GM title
Nigel Short has got something to say
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1077079
Just some clarification:
I think most of the women “who earned their titles with other methods” are of grandmaster strength nevertheless.
It’s not their fault, that these “other methods” exist.
At least (with the possible exception of Gaprindashvili) they all meat the rating requirement.
I would also be inclined to think that they made some norms after they got the title. Does anybody know this ?
Peng is 2400 and has been around 2400. She was even under 2400 from time to time.
I was checking the Fide website this afternoon and I was really surprised:there are a lot of masters unrated!.
There are too a lot of GMs under 2400.Exactly 53.Most of them are very old,but you can find “stranges” cases: Kalugin(GM,2362,37 years old) and Hatanbaatar(GM,2379,34 years old)…probably the unrated masters and these two are part of some type of cheap masters,like Peng.
how about Hou Yifan?
Gaprindashvili is a senior player. I think back in the 60s they didn’t have Elo or GM norms, so it’s really hard to tell.
The Peng case is strange. Does anyone know where that title came from ?
The others are above 2500 right now, so they could have done it anyways.