Women's Chess Coverage

IT'S GRANDMASTER BIBISARA NOW!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉😃😃😃😃👏👏👏 Huge congrats to Bibisara Assaubayeva on just becoming the 43rd woman to earn the GM title!!!!!! 🇰🇿 She's the first new GM since Vaishali 18 months ago! chess-results.com/tnr1100164.asp… 📷: M Walusza #chess #womeninchess

Is it Tan Zhongyi or San Zhongyi? 🤔 😅 Tan Zhongyi has played in the 3rd place match in all three World Cups!!! 🤯 (The knock-out World Championships didn't have a 3rd place match.) 📷: Anna Shtourman #chess #womeninchess #FIDEWorldCup

.@Humpy_Koneru knocks out Tingjie Lei to qualify to her first FIDE Women's World Cup Final India is guaranteed to win the FIDE Women's World Cup, Who exactly will be decided in the next few days Read more📖 chessbase.in/news/FIDE-Wome…

This is what GM Koneru Humpy had to say about facing IM Divya Deshmukh in an All-Indian finals at the FIDE Women's World Cup Finals! Game 1 of the finals start today from 4:30 PM IST. There will 2 Classical games played - one today and one tomorrow. If the scores are tied, we'll…

Megan Paragua, still only 12 (!), had a fantastic tournament at the US Girls' Junior Championship! 😀 She finished clear runner-up to get back over 2300! 👏👏 s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan… 📷: Crystal Fuller #chess #womeninchess

Congrats to 17-year-old top seed Zoey Tang on winning the US Girls' Junior Championship! 🥳🎉🏆😀 She's closing in on the IM title at 2381 (!!) w/ 2 norms already! 👀 s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan… 📷: Lennart Ootes #chess #womeninchess

WGM Lan Yao continues to have a splendid tournament in Andorra. She is unbeaten in her 7 games, including matches against 1 GM and 4 IM's. #chess #englishchess @OnTheQueenside

Xeniya is still doing great in Oskemen! 😀 She drew her game today! 👏👏 s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan… 📷: Y Kim #chess #womeninchess

UPDATE: Leya settled for a draw! She probably needs a win and a draw in the final two rounds for a GM norm! 👀 lichess.org/broadcast/open… 📷: Shahid Ahmed #chess #womeninchess

If Leya Garifullina can convert this advantage into a win, the chances she gets a GM norm by Sunday are very good! 👀 lichess.org/broadcast/open… #chess #womeninchess

After a couple mediocre events, I am glad to get 2nd at the U.S Junior Championship. Of course it would be nice to get 1st, but I feel I played good chess overall and fought my hardest every game. Thank you @STLChessClub once again for inviting me and hosting a great event!

It's @GMJuditPolgar's birthday week! 🎉 Did you know Judit was only 12 when she reached the world's top 100? She then broke Bobby Fischer's record to become the youngest-ever grandmaster at 15!

Today, Zeinep Sultanbek (2067) faces GM Richard Rapport (2715)! 😱 The lowest-rated woman to beat a super-GM is Anna Zatonskih at 2424! The lowest I can think of is Xue Haowen at 2335! Good luck Zeinep! 😅 lichess.org/broadcast/oske… 📷: Y Kim; M Walusza #chess #womeninchess

When you're trying to convince yourself you're a good chess player, but your opponent is ZEINEP SULTANBEK! 😅😅😅

The earthquake double round worked out for Xeniya Balabayeva! 😀 She drew both games vs. near-2500 opposition! She was winning the first, and close to losing the second! 😅 Today she has a good pairing vs. GM Lalit Babu! 👀 s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan… 📷: KCF #chess #womeninchess

Koneru Humpy was on the brink of elimination in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals, but then won three games in a row to win the match! She'll play an all-Indian Final vs. Divya Deshmukh. chess.com/news/view/2025…

Congratulations to WGM Zoey Tang on her 1st place win at the U.S. Junior Girls Championships! She finished the tournament with a score of 7/9. Great job Zoey! #chess #USJuniorsChess #USSeniorsChess

What a historic moment for Indian Chess. We have an All-Indian Final set up at the FIDE Women's World Chess Cup 2025 - Grandmaster Koneru Humpy vs International Master Divya Deshmukh! No matter the result, we will get to see India clinch Gold at Batumi in a few days. Both of the…

INDIAN CHESS IS ON AN INCREDIBLE RISE! 📈 World Champion - Gukesh Dommaraju World Rapid Champion - Humpy Koneru (Women) Chess Olympiad Champion - India (Open) Chess Olympiad Champion - India (Women) World Cup Champion - Humpy/Divya (Women) WE ARE HERE TO DOMINATE THE WORLD 🇮🇳

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♟ FIDE Women’s World Cup. Semifinals: Humpy Koneru clinches victory in a thrilling tiebreak! 🇮🇳 India has two players in the final of the Women’s World Cup – a first in the event’s history. On one side is the prodigious Divya Deshmukh, just 19 years old, who stunned former…