Why no women in the Top 100 chess players in the world? The question remains in 2024.
Recently, the world’s #1 rated woman chess player, retired 4-time world champion, 30-year-old China’s Yifan Hou (2664) lost a few rating points and dropped from the Top 100 chess players to #109.
The reigning also a 4-time women’s world chess champion China’s 33-year-old Wenjun Ju (2583) is ranked #330 in the world!
See the Top 10 Rated Women in World below.
#1 Rated Chess Player in the World!
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen
33-years-old
#1 Ranked Player in the World
Retired 5-Time World Chess Champion
2862
March 2024
Reigning World Chess Champion
China’s Liren Ding
31-years-old
#4 Ranked Chess Player in the World!
Rated 2789
March 2024
Top 10 Chess Players in the World
#1 Rated Chess Women Player in the World!
China’s Yifan Hou
30-years-old
Retired 4-Time Women’s World Chess Champion
#109 Ranked Chess Player in the World
Rated 2632
March 2024
Reigning Women’s World Chess Champion
China’s Wenjun Ju
33-years-old
Reigning 4-Time Women’s World Chess Champion
#2 Ranked Woman Chess Player
#330 Ranked Chess Player in the World!
Rated 2559
March 2024
Top 10 Women Chess Players in the World
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Beginner’s Book – Chess Rules For Students
Chess Rules For Students is a workbook for students learning the game of chess and for beginning students returning to the game. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. Parents unfamiliar with chess will find this booklet a valuable guide to their child’s new interest.
Chess Rules For Students is designed with students, coaches, and parents in mind. Reading level is appropriate for grade-school use. All major rules of chess are covered, and algebraic notation worksheets are included. Each page is in easy-to-use worksheet format.
A student-friendly Answer Key makes self-correction fun!
Beginners & Intermediate Book – Checkmate! Ideas For Students
Checkmate! Ideas For Students is a workbook for beginning and intermediate students. Checkmate! covers the tactics used in checkmate attacks with clear explanations, diagrams and arrows to pinpoint the key features.
Unlike many other basic checkmate books, Checkmate! categorizes the checkmates by the tactics used to force the checkmate–like Pins, Sacrifices, Removing the Guard, Attraction, Clearance and Attacking Flight Squares–rather than only the checkmate pattern itself.
The worksheets and Answer Key are clear and simple for the student to use, and easy for the parent, teacher and coach to correct! Fun!
Intermediate & Advanced Book – Chess Tactics For Students
Chess Tactics For Students contains 434 carefully selected problems in worksheet format.
Chess Tactics has been extensively field tested with elementary, middle-school, and high-school students over a four-year period. This book is ideal for independent seat work as well as for homework and classroom instruction.
The worksheet format and Answer Key enable self-correction with minimal dependence or direct help from a chess teacher, coach, or parent.
