TOP 10 WGM AS OF MARCH 2025
How's you doing guys. Its been awhile since I wrote my last blog. And I want to write this blog to honor all women in this community of Chess.Com. So if you are a women, woman, lady, girl, babe, LOOK UP! REACH HIGH! STAND UP! THIS MONTH IS FOR YOU! Chess Community cannot move forward without you!
In line with this, A lot of women right now are standing up in the world of Chess and I know that you know all of them. Well, even my clubs, my goodness! 🤦♂️Girls are more stronger! So if your a girl and reading this! Yeah! Your right! you can be strong as long as you want and work hard about it! Let's check out the TOP 10 WGM AS OF MARCH 2025. Let's Go!
TOP 10 WGM AS OF MARCH 2025
1. Hou Yifan - 2633
Hou Yifan a WGM from China, was born 27 February 1994. She was a four time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is the second highest rated female player of all time. And if you are at the age of 10-15 yrs. old right now? Guess what! Hou was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster at the age of 14. My goodness! I'm 30 plus and still nothing happened to me! Anyways Hou is the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship at the age of 16 yrs old. How old are you right now? You still have hope, my goodness!
2. Ju Wenjun - 2561
Ju Wenjun, WGM from China, was born 31 January 1991, a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the reigning four time Women's World Champion, right now, she is the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion, and a two time World Rapid Chess Champion. In March 2017, she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600.She became the Women's World Chess Champion, having won the title first in May 2018. She then defended her title in November 2018, 2020, and 2023. My goodness! I think there's a kungfu chess training in China, my goodness! Well, my eyes is as small like chinese but I'm not Chinese anyway.
3. Tan Zhongyi - 2555
Tan Zhongyi from China, was born 29 May 1991. She is also a Chinese chess player who holds the title of grandmaster . She became Women's World Champion, winning the 2017 knockout edition of the world championship in Iran, where she defeated Anna Muzychuk in the final. Tan is also a former Women's World Rapid Champion. She is the three time reigning Chinese women's national champion, and is a five time national champion overall with titles in 2015, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
She won the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024, allowing her to compete against Ju Wenjun in the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. I should blog their games actually but I got focused more on Ju Wenjun's beauty while watching live, my goodness!
4. Lei Tingjie - 2552
Lei Tingjie from China, was born 13 March 1997. A Chinese chess player too who holds the title of Grandmaster. She was the 2021 Women's Grand Swiss champion, the 2017 Chinese women's national champion and the 2022–23 Women's Candidates winner. Lei earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at age 19, and was the sixth woman to obtain the title as a teenager. So are you still a teenager? Maybe this time your the 7th, You can do it. Anyways In April 2023, she won the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022 -23 after beating Tan Zhongyi. In July 2023, Lei challenged reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun for the title, but lost the match after a loss in game 12. Of course its Ju, what do we expect, my goodness!
5. Aleksandra Goryachkina - 2548
Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina from Russia, was born 28 September 1998 is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. Well, her both parents are chess coach with both 2200 ratings, my goodness! I feel her pressure. Anyways if your parents are good players, then your blessed enough. Anyways, She is the No. 5 ranked woman in the world by FIDE rating and is also the fourth highest rated woman and highest rated Russian woman in chess history with a peak rating of 2611. Goryachkina was the challenger in the 2020 Women's World Championship match, which she lost in rapid tiebreaks to Ju Wenjun. She is also a three time Russian Women's Chess Champion, which she achieved in 2015, 2017, and 2020. In August 2023, she won the FIDE Women's World Cup after defeating Nurgyul Salimova in a tie break match.
6. Koneru Humpy - 2528
Koneru Humpy from India, was born in 31 of March 1987. An Indian chess grandmaster. Humpy is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002, she became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster aged 15 years. Humpy is a gold medalist at the Olympiad, Asian Games, and Asian Championship. She is also the first Indian female grandmaster.
In October 2007, Humpy became the second female player, after Judit Polgar, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606. And that is WOW right? being second to Judit?
Humpy won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in 2019 and 2024.
7. Anna Muzychuk - 2516
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk from Ukraine, was born 28 February 1990. A Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Well, her parents are coach and masters as well. And her sister named Mariya, a former World Champion of 2015. She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three time world champion in fast chess, having won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2016 and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Championship runner-up. And she played chess at 2 years old while most of us all are looking for milk, my goodness! She solves the problem while other babies make problem, my goodness!
8. Kateryna Lagno - 2516
Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno from Russian, she was born 27 December 1989. Anyways she's beautiful right? Russians are very beautiful. Before she became a chess prodigy, she was from a family of basketball players. But she earned the title Woman Grandmaster at the age of 12 years old, yeah, 12 years old, you read it right guys, my goodness! Anyways, She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, She plays for Ukraine and Russia as well. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017 and 2021 playing for the Russian team. She won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. She was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019. Anyways what do you expect to Russian players? my goodness, They are very competitive.
Anyways are you enjoying so far? Well, China is still alive!
9. Zhu Jiner - 2514
Zhu Jiner from China, was born Nov. 16, 2022. she won the World Youth Chess Championship in the category IN 2016. In 2017, she was third in the Asian Zone, and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2018.That same year, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. In 2018, Zhu Jiner won the bronze medal at the Women's China Rapid Chess Championship.
She participated in the first three legs of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-23. Her New Delhi performance earned her her last GM norm, and she was awarded the title in August 2023. Well, she became a master when she was 14 years old, my goodness!
10. Nana Dzagnidze - 2513
Nana Dzagnidze was from Georgia. She was born 1 January 1987. Yeah, new year's month, my goodness! She was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008. Dzagnidze was a member of the gold medal-winning Georgian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2008 and European women's individual champion in 2017. In 2017, she won the European Women's Individual Championship in Riga and the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship in Riyadh. She won the honorary FIDE award of Caissa as the best female player of the year 2017. Chess Award of Caissa, designed and executed by artisans of the Lobortas Classic Jewelry House, was solemnly presented on December 31, 2018 during the closing ceremony of the 2018 World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Saint Petersburg.
Anyways, hope you enjoy reading this content. Hope one day your the representative of your country and still member of my clubs that time if you reach that. Always remember, Play, Learn and Have Fun!
Regards,
Renz
Note:
All insights came from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
https://www.chess.com/ratings/women
