Book cover to Rebel Queen by Susan Polgar
1/9 Really enjoyed this autobiography by @susanpolgar.bsky.social—Rebel Queen: the Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a grandmaster.
💙📚 A few highlights, particularly for @chess.com & @onthequeenside.bsky.social folks but this can be inspirational for anyone:
The FIDE Women's World Cup starts on Sunday! 👀
Think you can pick the winners? 🤔
Join my bracket prediction contest here! 👇
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See if you can do better than me and/or your internet friends! 😁
#womeninchess
Fresh off her victory over Richard Rapport, Tan Zhongyi follows it up by flagging the legend Vasyl Ivanchuk! 🤯
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📷: Mikael Svensson
#chess #womeninchess
TAN ZHONGYI JUST BEAT RICHARD RAPPORT!!!!!!! 🤩🥳🎉😃👏👏
IT'S THE FIRST TIME TAN HAS EVER BEATEN A SUPER-GM (!!), AND IT'S NOT JUST ANY SUPER-GM, IT'S RICHARD RAPPORT (2722)! 🤯
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📷: Mikael Svensson
#chess #womeninchess
Ju Wenjun is now a five-time Women's World Champion! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
She ties the historic mark set by Georgian legends Nona Gaprindashvili & Maia Chiburdanidze, the most in the modern era! 👏👏👏
📷: Anna Shtourman; Jack de Nijs; RIA Novosti
#chess #womeninchess #JuTan
Great graphic by ChessBase India for the Women's World Championship match! 🙏
HUGE REMINDER!!!!! 👀
The Women's World Chess Championship match between Tan Zhongyi (!!) and the four-time reigning defending World Champion Ju Wenjun (!!) is happening in exactly two weeks! 😱
#chess #womeninchess
First article of the year is up, just in time for International Women's Day!
It's the new rankings for the start of 2025! Be sure to check it out!
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14-year-old Lu Miaoyi is still on fire in Tata Steel! 🔥🔥🔥
She has three wins against only two losses in 10 rounds in the stacked 2550-level field! 🤯
📷: Frans Peeters
#womeninchess #TataSteelChess
RED HOT STARTS! 🔥🔥🔥
It's only been four rounds in Tata Steel and already:
🇮🇳 Vaishali (23) beat GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (2659)!
🇮🇳 Divya Deshmukh (19) beat GM Ediz Gürel (2624)!
🇨🇳 Lu Miaoyi (14) beat GMs Kazybek Nogerbek (2514) AND Frederik Svane (2664)! 👏👏👏
#womeninchess #TataSteelChess
Chess profiles Pia & Anna Cramling take the stage at the Sports Gala in front of 2 million tv viewers in Sweden. @onthequeenside.bsky.social
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Tata Steel Challengers is almost here! (this Friday!! 🤯)
This edition boasts:
🇮🇳 Divya Deshmukh!
🇮🇳 Vaishali!
🇨🇳 Miaoyi!
🇷🇴 Irina Bulmaga!
They're up against young stars 🇦🇷 Faustino Oro & 🇹🇷 Ediz Gürel (!), plus local veterans 🇳🇱 Bok & 🇳🇱 l'Ami, and also 🇺🇿 Nodirbek 2!
#womeninchess
THE TRIPLE CROWN!!! 👑👑👑
Ju Wenjun just became the 3rd player in chess history to complete the career Triple Crown (winning classical, rapid, & blitz world titles!!!), joining Susan Polgar & Magnus Carlsen!
📷: D Ikunin; S Bonhage; M Walusza
#womeninchess
Now the real test begins! 😱
Alice Lee (4/4) starts Day 2 of the World Rapid with Black on Board 1 against Ju Wenjun (3½/4)! 👀
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📷: Crystal Fuller; Michal Walusza
#womeninchess #RapidBlitz
New blog post is up on the new Women's FIDE Circuit! 👀
FIDE still hasn't published an article explaining the format, but I did! 😅
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#womeninchess
🏆 Ju Wenjun
🥈 Bibisara Assaubayeva
🥉 Tan Zhongyi
4⃣ Lei Tingjie
5⃣ Zhu Jiner
Scoring grid:
5⃣2⃣2⃣1⃣1⃣
2⃣4⃣2⃣1⃣1⃣
2⃣2⃣3⃣1⃣1⃣
1⃣1⃣1⃣2⃣1⃣
1⃣1⃣1⃣1⃣2⃣
(Gold = 5 points, Silver = 4 pts, Bronze = 3 pts, 4th or 5th = 2 pts.
If not exact, 2 pts if a Top 3 medals, OR 1 pt if a Top 5 is Top 5.)
(This is the same contest as on Twitter. No need to repost if you already posted there. 🙂)
📢 Prediction contest! 📢
The World Rapid Championship starts today! 👀
Post your predictions for the Top 5 in order here! 🤔
(Scoring grid is in the first comment!)
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Lu Miaoyi didn't have the best start to her final classical tournament of the year (a GM norm tournament), but after two losses, she bounced back with three wins to finish the classical year on a good note!
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📷: M Walusza
#womeninchess
IN: Ju Wenjun, Lei Tingjie
OUT: Aleksandra Goryachkina, Nurgyul Salimova
The World Rapid & Blitz has a pretty thorough field with a whole 27 of the Top 30 in my rankings going to New York next week!
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📷: L Ootes; CCA
#womeninchess
The newest little World Champion giving flowers to a slightly taller World Champion! 💐🤩
📷: China Chess Association
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The youngest World Chess Champions & Women's World Chess Champions in history!
📷: Maria Emelianova; Turkish Chess Federation
#chess #womeninchess
Bodhana 🤝 Ju Wenjun! 🤩
📷: John Saunders
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Eline Roebers finishes El Llobregat w/ a rating of 2381 (+8!), her exact rating when the year began!
Even after seven bad months where she lost 66 Elo and wasn't focused on chess (due to school), she already gained all of it back!
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📷: N Jain
#chess #womeninchess
No mercy from Eline yesterday! 😱
She destroyed her opponent in one of the quickest games of the round!
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📷: Niklesh Jain
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Polina Shuvalova shared 1st place in the last two opens she played!
It would be impressive if she could keep that streak going in Qatar with Arjun & Nodirbeks playing! 😅
She started 2/2 (!), and today's win was just about perfect!
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📷: A Shtourman
#chess #womeninchess
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HAT TRICK OF 2500 GM SCALPS! 🤯
Begim Tokhirjonova closed out her US Masters by beating 3 GMs back-to-back-to-back to tie for 3rd!!!
Her GM opponents were Elshan Moradiabadi (2515), David Brodsky (2538), & Robby Kevlishvili (2556)!
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📷 CCC
#womeninchess
Teodora Injac is the only top women's player competing in the Singapore Open at the World Championship w/ 37 GMs!
After Round 4, she's co-leading the tournament w/ 7 others! Today she beat Singapore's No. 2 GM Siddharth Jagadeesh (2510)!
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📷: D Llada
#womeninchess
Maili-Jade Ouellet 🇨🇦 just earned her 2nd IM norm, but her week isn't done!
She's already begun the US Masters w/ Alice Lee and reigning US Champions Carissa Yip & Fabiano Caruana! 😀
All four won in Round 1!
The rest is double rounds! 😱
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