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syrianchessmaster
Who do you guys think is the best womens chess player? I have heard that Almira Skripchenko is the best womens chess player. But I have also heard that Alexandra Kosteniuk is the best. What about Judit Polgar? Please give me your opinions!!!
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FIDE's Top 25 women players:
1 Polgar, Judit 2707 2 Koneru, Humpy 2572 3 Cramling, Pia 2533 4 Hou, Yifan 2523 5 Zhu, Chen 2522 6 Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2515 7 Kosintseva, Tatiana 2502 8 Ushenina, Anna 2502 9 Zhao, Xue 2500 10 Chiburdanidze, Maia 2496 11 Sebag, Marie 2491 12 Stefanova, Antoaneta 2481 13 Socko, Monika 2479 14 Krush, Irina 2479 15 Harika, Dronavalli 2478 16 Kosintseva, Nadezhda 2475 17 Galliamova, Alisa 2468 18 Cmilyte, Viktorija 2467 19 Hoang Thanh Trang 2466 20 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman 2464 21 Dembo, Yelena 2464 22 Zatonskih, Anna 2462 23 Javakhishvili, Lela 2460 24 Gaponenko, Inna 2458 25 Paehtz, Elisabeth 2457
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Considering potential, it's Natalia Pogonina
IoftheHungarianTiger
Okay, this is a pretty old post, but I haven't been a member for very long, so I'll add my two cents to it. My vote goes to Judit Polgar without question.
Top 10 FIDE grandmaster, 1991 Hungarian National Champion, topped the women's FIDE rating list 50 times, rated over 100 points above her nearest competitor ... lots of impressive stuff for the resume.
Currently, her two closest rivals would be Humpy Koneru and Yifan Hou (Rated #2 and #3, respectively). Hou just hammered Koneru in their WWC match, so I would consider Hou a closer rival than Koneru, despite Koneru's higher rating.
To compare Hou and Polgar, I'd look at the recent 2011 FIDE World Cup, in which both Judit and Hou participated.
Hou was knocked out in the first round of the Cup by Sergei Movsesian, losing 0-2 without taking a single game or even a draw. Judit met Movsesian in the second round (she would have faced Hou, had Hou prevailed), and defeated Movsesian 1.5-0.5. She went on to defeat the #1 seed in the tournament, Karjakin, and reached the Quarterfinals before finally losing to Peter Svidler, the eventual winner of the tournament.
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