In 2002, she received the Men's Grandmaster title. http://www.expert-chess-strategies.com/koneru-humpy.html
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.
The women's chess champion for 2008 was Alexandra Kosteniuk.
Suchetra Kriplani was the first women chief minister of an Indian State
Women's World Chess Championship was created in 1927.
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U.S. Women's Open Chess Championship was created in 1934.
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Bachendri Pal Is the first women to climb mount Everest. She was born in 1954. And she was an Indian
Kavita Singh is first Indian woman on LET Board of Directors
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