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 1  1927/1944                 Vera Menchik (RUS/TCH/GBR)
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 2  1950/1953                 Lyudmila Rudenko (URS)
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 3  1953/1956                 Elisaveta Bykova (URS)
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 4  1956/1958                 Olga Rubtsova (URS)
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    1958/1962                 Elisaveta Bykova (URS)
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 5  1962/1978                 Nona Gaprindashvili (URS)
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 6  1978/1991                 Maia Chiburdanidze (URS)
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 7  1991/1996                 Jun Xie (CHN)
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 8  1996/1999                 Susan Polgar (HUN)
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    1999/2001                 Jun Xie (CHN)
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 9  2001/2004                 Chen Zhu (CHN)
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10  2004/2006                 Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL)
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11  2006/2008                 Yuhua Xu (CHN)
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12  2008/2010                 Alexandra Kosteniuk (RUS)
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13  2010/2012                 Yifan Hou (CHN)
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14  2012/2013                 Anna Ushenina (UKR)
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    2013/2015                 Yifan Hou (CHN)
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15  2015/2016                 Mariya Muzychuk (UKR)
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    2016/2017                 Yifan Hou (CHN)
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16  2017/2018                 Zhongyi Tan (CHN)
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17  2018/                     Wenjun Ju (CHN)
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