From the Middle Ages through the 1700s, chess was a popular social pastime for both men and women of the upper classes. Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elisabeth I played, and Thomas Jefferson wrote several times about Benjamin Franklin's playing chess with socially important women, including the Duchess of Bourbon, who was a "chess player of about his force". Chess games between men and women were a common theme of European art and literature in the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
By the 1800s, however, the chess world had become dominant by male players, perhaps as a result of card playing becoming socially acceptable for mixed groups. Then during the twentieth century, female players again made significant progress in breaking the male stranglehold on the game, although remaining fewer than 5% of registered tournament players.
The country of Georgia produced some of the best woman chess players of the latter twentieth century, including some of the first female international grandmaster
"Nona Gaprindashvili", who awarded the title of grandmaster in 1978 she was awarded the title as a result of winning Lone Pine 1977 against a field of 45 players, mostly grandmasters. Although she did not meet the technical requirements for the grandmaster title, this result was so awe-inspiring that FIDE found it sufficient.
Though, there is also a woman grandmaster title but the requirements for achieving it are much lower. Still, chess has not regained its former social status among women. As of 2005 most of the top 10 women held the grandmaster title. In September 2005, grandmaster Judit Polgar then rated #8 in the world by the international chess organization 'FIDE', and then became the first woman to play for the world championship title.
Shirley Mulldowney.
Boris Spazzky. He was defeated in 1972 by American Bobby Fischer.
Women first participated at the 1900 Games in Paris in tennis, golf, and croquet. The first woman Olympic champion was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in ladies singles tennis.
The United States Football League existed between 1983-1985. The 1983 champion was the Michigan Panthers, the 1984 champion was the Philadelphia Stars, and the 1985 champion was the Baltimore Stars.
The Persians invented Bricks, Ice cream, the First Taxation System, Chess, Algebra, Windmills and Backgammon.
Wilhelm Steinitz of Austria was the first world chess champion.
The current world chess champion is Viswanathan Anand
The Fabulous Moolah was the first woman champion.
The answer is Garry Kasparov.
Max Euwe
The women's chess champion for 2008 was Alexandra Kosteniuk.
Chess World Champion
Viswanathan Anand is the current World Chess Champion as well as an Indian Grand Chess-master .
Bobby Fischer is not the current World Chess Champion. Anand is.
Boris Vasilievich Spassky , he was the 10th World Chess Champion .
'Deep Blue' defeated chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in May of 1997 .
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