Campeonas del mundo oficiales

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1. Vera Menchik-Stevenson
1927–1941

2. Ludmilla Rudenko

1950–1953

3. Elizavieta Bykova

1953–1956
1958–1962

4. Olga Rubtsova

1956–1958

5. Nona Gaprindachvili

1962–1978

6. Maia Chiburdanidze

1978–1991

7. Xie Jun

1991–1996
1999-2000

8. Susan Polgar

1996–1999

9. Zhu Chen

2001–2004

10. Antoaneta Stefanova

2004–2006

11. Xu Yuhua

2006–2008

12. Aleksandra Kosteniuk

2008–2010

13. Anna Ushenina

2012–2013

14. Hou Yifan

2010–2012
2013-actual