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===List of youngest female grandmasters===
Below are the holders of the record for the youngest female player to qualify for the grandmaster title (not to be confused with the lesser [[Woman Grandmaster]] title):

{| class="wikitable"
|+Youngest female grandmasters
!Year !!Player !!Country !!Age
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| 1978 || [[Nona Gaprindashvili]] || {{URS}} || 37 years
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| 1984 || [[Maia Chiburdanidze]] || {{URS}} || 23 years
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| 1991 || [[Susan Polgar]] || {{HUN}} || 21 years
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| 1991 || [[Judit Polgár]] || {{HUN}} || 15 years, 4 months<ref name="jpolgar_1" /><ref name="jpolgar_2" />
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| 2002 || [[Koneru Humpy]] || {{IND}} || 15 years, 1 month<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/humpy-emerges-winner-at-elekes/articleshow/11312648.cms|title=Humpy emerges winner at Elekes|date=29 May 2002|access-date=7 September 2023|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=333 |title=Humpy beats Judit Polgar by three months |work=Chess News |date=31 May 2002|access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref>
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| 2008 || [[Hou Yifan]] || {{CHN}} || 14 years, 6 months<ref>[http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3263-wccc-nalchik-2008-and-now-there-were-just-four WWCC - Nalchik 2008 - and now there are just four!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913000643/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3263-wccc-nalchik-2008-and-now-there-were-just-four|date=13 September 2008}}, [[FIDE]] web site, 9 September 2008

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