Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton.
“Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, or FIDE, the international governing body over competitive chess.
To put Tang’s achievement into perspective, there are some 350,000 active FIDE-rated chess players across the globe, according to chess.com. About 11% – or 38,500 – of those players are women, and fewer than 500 players are woman grandmasters…