re: #1 lostlakehiker
This is a big day for women. There had been, til now, no woman to score at the uttermost top in any of the cluster of realms of human endeavor such as chess, bridge, mathematics, go…
You must not have heard about Judit Polgr, the youngest ever (at the time) chess Grandmaster. Her highest ranking was #8 in the world which is definitely playing in the very highest tier. “Polgr is the only woman to have won a game from a reigning world number one player, and has defeated ten current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.” She retired from competitive chess just yesterday!