The Top Women Chess Players Over Time

If you've enjoyed our previous data videos of the most accurate chess players over time and the countries with the most grandmasters over time, then you'll want to check out our latest: The top women over time! From GM Nona Gaprindashvili to GM Judit Polgar to GM Hou Yifan, watch below to see how the greatest women to ever play chess have compared for the last five-plus decades.

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[tamirmorgan]

From Wikipedia: Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father, László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born, " was László's thesis...

Proved his point 😂

[Ayaengels]

Nice to Anna cramling mum to be no 1 in 1980s

[MariusOJohansen]

Huge props to Polgar for being ranked 8 in the world at her best (among THE best at the time), what an absolute unit of a chess player

[jones_da]

It’s so impressive how constant the success of Pia Cramling is she surpassed 2400 literally 40 Years ago and always stayed above this line till today and even was a 2500 for a long time with a peak of 2550

[SLKCHESS]

It is so clear from this video that Judit Polgar is the GOAT in Women in chess.

[andrejbogdanov]

Pia Cramling top10 for 40 years is one of the biggest accomplishments in all of sports history!

[archirayanmondal]

From 1980s to 2020s Pia cramling is always in the list

[alanprak]

I think Hou Yifan could probably have overtaken Polgar as the greatest ever female player if only she'd focus on chess, but despite not doing so and balancing a career as a professor she's still the best female player currently active.

[atulganesh]

Nearly 20 years later and Judit Polgar remains the only woman to ever cross the 2700 mark!

[dantes]

Judit is the Magnus / Kasparov of the Woman’s division

[grownupgaming]

Can you imagine Susan polgar winning women’s world champ in 1996 but not being able to say you are the best chess playing under your roof or in your house? Lol

[bestintuba]

Pia Cramling! 41+ years and still going!

[TamThanever]

meanwhile Pia Cramling stayed in the top 10 chart for the longest period

[prodigytruth]

nona gaprindashvili is the queen of chess.first female grandmaster in the world.i think she is underrated in chess world.first female GM, and first female who played with man.everybody should first off talk about nona and then about others.

[evidencemuriro]

OMG look at JUDIT POLGAR

Impressive

[Qwerty-cqpe]

To Many Georgians in list ( gafrindashvili, chiburdanidze, Alexandria, ioseliani, kakhiani ) Population of Georgia only 3 000 000 :) 🎉

[marclm]

I saw both the men and woman's best players time line. And whats interesting is that there is always one player who is much better then all other players (by rating at least). Why could that be?

[flora]

Expected the comment section to be horrible but was pleasantly surprised

[stephenl]

Vera Menchik had a peak rating of 2535 in 1929. Between 1927 and 1939 there were 7 matches for the world women's title, and she won all of them.

[esquireputmoves]

No woman overtook Judith she had to retire and she has beaten many world champions. Gary, Magnus, vishy this woman was a beast.