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