Anna Olehivna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). 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 2014 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.
Nino Khurtsidze was a Georgian chess player. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1993 and International Master (IM) in 1999. She won the World Girls U-20 Chess Championship in 1993 and 1995. Khurtsidze also won the World Girls U-16 Chess Championship of 1991 in Guarapuava, Brazil, the European U-20 Girls Championship in 1992, the Men's Georgian Chess Championship in 1998 and the women's Georgian championship five times.
Nana Ioseliani is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the Woman Grandmaster title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time. A chess prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
Rico Mascariñas is a Philippine (Filipino) chess player with the title of International Master. He was one of the premiere chess players of the Philippines during the 1980s and the 1990s and for a long period of time he was the No. 2 ranked player of the Philippines behind Grandmaster Eugenio Torre.
IlyaSmirin is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990.
Rogelio Antonio Jr. is a Filipino chess grandmaster, who was awarded the title in 1993. He is affectionately known as "Joey" Antonio or GM Joey. Antonio finished tied for 3rd-8th places in the 2009 Asian Chess Championship and became the first player in the Philippines' history to qualify for the World Cup later in 2009.
Vereslav (Viacheslav) Eingorn is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster, coach and author. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship.
Anupama Gokhale is an Indian chess player. She won the Indian Women's Championship five times and the Asian Women's Championship twice. In 1985 she was also joint winner, with Malaysian player Audrey Wong, of the Asian Junior Girls' Championship in Adelaide. This achievement automatically earned both players the title of Woman International Master (WIM).
Eva Repková is a Slovak chess player holding the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was Czechoslovak Women's Champion in 1991 and Slovak Women's Champion in 2003, 2010 and 2013.
Maria Kouvatsou is a Greek chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was the 1999 World Under-20 Girl's Chess Championship winner, won the Greek Women's Chess Championship in 2000, and has represented Greece in three Chess Olympiads.
Nafisa Muminova is a chess player from Uzbekistan.
Essam El-Gindy is an Egyptian chess Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Melissa Greeff is a South African-Canadian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She earned the WGM title in 2009.
Faridah Basta Sohair is an Egyptian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1993.
Cecile van der Merwe, is a South African chess player and Woman International Master.
Asma Houli, is an Algerian chess player and African Women's Chess Championship winner (2001).
Farida Arouche, is an Algerian Woman International Master and African Women's Chess Championship winner (2003).
Ali Farahat is an Egyptian and American chess player who received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in 2005. He won the Egyptian chess championship in 2014. Since April 2019, he plays for the United States Chess Federation.
Fouad El Taher is an Egyptian chess player who holds the titles of International Master and FIDE Arbiter (2008). He won the Arab Chess Championship in 1992.
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