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! 👇 challonge.com/WorldCupOnTh... 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! 🤯 lichess.org/broadcast/te... 📷: 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)! 🤯 lichess.org/broadcast/te... 📷: 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! lichess.org/@/OnTheQueen... #womeninchess

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 schack.se/nyhet/sverig...

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)! 👀 lichess.org/broadcast/fi... 📷: 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! 😅 lichess.org/@/OnTheQueen... #womeninchess

📢 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!) chess-results.com/tnr1074691.a... #womeninchess

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! chess-results.com/tnr1003029.a... 📷: 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! chess-results.com/tnr1074691.a... 📷: L Ootes; CCA #womeninchess

The newest little World Champion giving flowers to a slightly taller World Champion! 💐🤩 📷: China Chess Association #womeninchess

The youngest World Chess Champions & Women's World Chess Champions in history! 📷: Maria Emelianova; Turkish Chess Federation #chess #womeninchess

Bodhana 🤝 Ju Wenjun! 🤩 📷: John Saunders #chess #womeninchess

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! chess-results.com/tnr933890.as... 📷: N Jain #chess #womeninchess

No mercy from Eline yesterday! 😱 She destroyed her opponent in one of the quickest games of the round! elllobregat.com/chess/ 📷: Niklesh Jain #womeninchess

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! lichess.org/broadcast/qa... 📷: A Shtourman #chess #womeninchess

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)! events.charlottechesscenter.org/usmasters/st... 📷 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)! chess-results.com/tnr989481.as... 📷: 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! 😱 events.charlottechesscenter.org/usmasters/pa... #womeninchess

This eight-year-old could beat you at chess! 😅 She just became the 2024 girls' U-8 World Champion! 🥳🎉😀🇨🇳👏👏👏 chess-results.com/tnr1059823.a... #womeninchess

QUEEN SACRIFICE TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION! 👀 China's Xue Tianhao (last year's girls' U-10 World Champion) needed to win today to become World Champion (girls' U-12) again! It looked headed for a draw when suddenly the moment came! lichess.org/broadcast/fi... #womeninchess

United States chess has had the No. 1-ranked woman in the Americas since 1991! 😮 But is that 33-year streak in danger? 😱 Canada's 22-year-old Maili-Jade Ouellet 🇨🇦 has gained over 150 Elo this year up to 2385 (!), not far off from Americas' No. 1 Carissa Yip (2432)! 📷: Deepanshi Matai #womeninchess

First #ChessDrama on Bluesky! 😱 Vantika Agrawal made a draw today in the President's Cup in Uzbekistan, but it was erroneously posted as a loss! The tournament doesn't post results until the same time they post the next round pairings, so it's impossible to know in advance they screwed up!

We have three big open tournaments left this year in Asia! 👀 The Uzbekistan President's Cup just started today! 🇺🇿 It is followed by the Singapore Open (!), and then the Qatar Masters! 🇸🇬🇶🇦 Afruza, Meruert, & Vantika will be in both Uzbekistan & Qatar! chess-results.com/tnr1064998.a... #womeninchess

I am not 100% happy with some of the line weights, but I am too lazy to correct them. Photo references: Maria Emelianova (photochess)

The amazing European Championship women's podium! 🤩 🏆 🇷🇸 IM Teodora Injac (2429) [6½/11] 🥈 🇮🇱 WFM Dana Kochavi (2166) [6½/11] 🥉 🇷🇸 WIM Sofia Pogorelskikh (2252) [6/11] Dana made a triple norm!!! (IM, WGM, & WIM) Sofia made a double norm!! (IM & WGM) They all performed around 2500! 👏👏👏 #womeninchess

For the first time, no Indian player managed to win Tata Steel India Women's Rapid or Blitz! 😱 But one Indian still shined above the rest! Vantika Agrawal was the lowest-rated in the field by far (!), but was the top-finisher for India in both events (!), and got bronze in rapid! 🇮🇳🥉 #womeninchess

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Welcome to Women's Chess Coverage on Bluesky! 🙂🦋 Here you can look forward to seeing 👉 the best performances, games, & tactics from your favorite top players and juniors! 👉 players going for titles & trying to make it into the world elite! 👉 and of course, updates mid-tournament! #womeninchess

Of course my first post here has to be about Eline! 😁 ICYMI: Eline Roebers won the Hoogeveen Crown Group earlier this month ahead of two Women's World Champions! She won her mini-matches vs. all three of Kosteniuk, Muzychuk, & Machteld! chess-results.com/tnr1029721.a... 📷: F Peeters #womeninchess

I'm regularly updating the #chessfeed starter pack but we have another arrival who merits a special welcome. @onthequeenside.bsky.social is a powerhouse for news on top-flight women's chess go.bsky.app/6DLYrt6

Of course! 😁

Great round up of women's chess so far in 2024 🙌 #chesspunks lichess.org/@/OnTheQueen...