Chess Rankings #2:Peak elo(Women)

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	Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Notes
1	Hungary	Judit Polgár	2735	2005-07	1976	Highest-ranked female player (since 1992), highest-ranked Hungarian female player (since 1989), formerly youngest grandmaster (1991–1994), formerly youngest female grandmaster (1991–2002), formerly female world no. 1 (1989–2015)
2	China	Hou Yifan	2686	2015-03	1994	Youngest female grandmaster (since 2008), female world no. 1 (since 2015), highest-ranked Chinese female player (since 2008)
3	India	Koneru Humpy	2623	2009-07	1987	Highest-ranked Indian female player (since 2001), formerly youngest female grandmaster (2002–2008)
4	Russia	Aleksandra Goryachkina	2611	2021-08	1998	Formerly highest-ranked Russian female player (2020–2023)
5	Ukraine Slovenia	Anna Muzychuk	2606	2012-07	1990	Highest-ranked Ukrainian female player (since 2014), formerly highest-ranked Slovenian female player (2004–2014)
6	China	Ju Wenjun	2604	2017-03	1991
7	Russia	Tatiana Kosintseva	2581	2010-11	1986	Highest-ranked Russian female player (2010–2020, since 2023)
8	China	Zhao Xue	2579	2013-09	1985
9	Hungary United States	Susan Polgar	2577	2005-01	1969	Formerly youngest female grandmaster (1991), formerly female world no. 1 (1984–1985, 1986), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian female player (1984–1988), formerly highest-ranked American female player (2003–2019)
10	Russia	Nadezhda Kosintseva	2576	2010-11	1985
11	China	Xie Jun	2574	2008-01	1970	Formerly highest-ranked Chinese female player (1990–2008)
12	Georgia	Nana Dzagnidze	2573	2015-06	1987	Highest-ranked Georgian female player (since 2011)
13	Ukraine	Mariya Muzychuk	2563	2016-03	1992
13	Ukraine Russia	Kateryna Lagno	2563	2022-10	1989	Formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian female player (2003–2014)
15	Russia Switzerland	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2561	2018-01	1984	Highest-ranked Swiss female player (since 2023)
15	China	Tan Zhongyi	2561	2024-12	1991
17	Soviet Union Georgia	Maia Chiburdanidze	2560	1988-01	1961	Formerly highest-ranked female player (1985–1992), formerly youngest female grandmaster (1984–1991), formerly female world no. 1 (1980–1982, 1983, 1985–1986, 1987–1988), formerly highest-ranked Soviet female player (1985–1992), formerly highest-ranked Georgian female player (1992–2011)
17	Soviet Union Ukraine Russia	Alisa Galliamova	2560	1998-07	1972	Formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian female player (1992–1996), formerly highest-ranked Russian female player (1996–2010)
17	Bulgaria	Antoaneta Stefanova	2560	2003-01	1979	Highest-ranked Bulgarian female player (1994, since 1995)
20	China	Lei Tingjie	2554	2023-05	1997
21	Sweden	Pia Cramling	2550	2008-10	1963	Formerly female world no. 1 (1983, 1984), highest-ranked Swedish female player (since 1981)
22	China Qatar	Zhu Chen	2548	2008-01	1976	Highest-ranked Qatari female player (since 2006)
22	Russia	Valentina Gunina	2548	2015-06	1989
24	India	Harika Dronavalli	2543	2016-11	1991
25	Lithuania	Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen	2542	2017-06	1983	Highest-ranked Lithuanian female player (since 1999)
26	Ukraine United States	Anna Zatonskih	2537	2011-05	1978	Highest-ranked American female player (since 2019)
26	France	Marie Sebag	2537	2013-03	1986	Highest-ranked French female player (since 2007)
28	Georgia	Bella Khotenashvili	2531	2013-06	1988
29	Georgia	Nino Batsiashvili	2528	2018-03	1987
30	Armenia	Elina Danielian	2521	2011-07	1978	Highest-ranked Armenian female player (1994–2002, 2004–2005, since 2008)
31	Soviet Union Georgia	Nana Ioseliani	2520	1997-07	1962
32	Kazakhstan	Dinara Saduakassova	2519	2020-01	1996	Highest-ranked Kazakhstani female player (2014–2016, 2017–2018, since 2018)
33	China	Xu Yuhua	2517	2006-04	1976
34	Russia	Polina Shuvalova	2516	2021-12	2001
35	China	Zhu Jiner	2514	2024-11	2002
36	Germany	Elisabeth Pähtz	2513	2018-09	1985	Highest-ranked German female player (since 2008)
37	China	Wang Lei	2512	2001-10	1975
38	Vietnam Hungary	Hoang Thanh Trang	2511	2013-11	1980	Formerly highest-ranked Vietnamese female player (1992–2006)
39	Russia	Natalia Pogonina	2508	2014-07	1985
40	Russia	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	2507	2001-07	1974
40	Kazakhstan	Zhansaya Abdumalik	2507	2021-10	2000	Formerly highest-ranked Kazakhstani female player (2017, 2018)
42	Soviet Union Georgia Scotland	Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant	2506	2009-07	1968	Highest-ranked Scottish female player (since 2008)
42	China	Wang Pin	2506	2000-10	1974
42	India	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2506	2024-08	2001
45	Hungary	Sofia Polgar	2505	1998-07	1974
45	Poland	Monika Soćko	2505	2008-04	1978	Highest-ranked Polish female player (1999–2001, since 2005, shared since 2022)
45	Russia	Olga Girya	2505	2017-09	1991
45	Russia Poland	Alina Kashlinskaya	2505	2022-06	1993	Highest-ranked Polish female player (shared since 2022)
49	Armenia	Lilit Mkrtchian	2503	2010-01	1982	Formerly highest-ranked Armenian female player (2002–2003, 2005–2007)
49	China	Ruan Lufei	2503	2014-01	1987
51	Soviet Union Kyrgyzstan Russia	Svetlana Matveeva	2502	2004-01	1969	Formerly highest-ranked Russian female player (1992, 1994–1996), formerly highest-ranked Kyrgyzstani female player (1993)
51	Ukraine	Anna Ushenina	2502	2007-07	1985
51	United States	Irina Krush	2502	2013-10	1983	Formerly highest-ranked American female player (2002)
54	China	Qin Kanying	2501	2000-07	1974
54	Moldova France	Almira Skripchenko	2501	2003-01	1976	Formerly highest-ranked Moldovan female player (1995–2001), highest-ranked French female player (2002–2007)
54	India	Divya Deshmukh	2501	2024-10	2005
57	Georgia	Lela Javakhishvili	2500	2010-03	1984

Chess Rankings #2:Peak elo(Women)

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