user4399: Really female GMs and not WGMs. I notice here there's a 'deceased' list for female IMs but none for female GMs.
Is it really the case that there are only 38 females awarded GM title in history and they're all alive today?
For both the list and even the list on FIDE, what I'm not quite seeing is a death date column with N/A for living players, so either they are lists for living female GMs or yes to what I asked.

user15223: Yes.

With Lei securing her victory on Saturday, the biggest story of the day was Paehtz reaching her third GM norm. She had earlier norms from 2011 and 2016, which still need to be checked before it's certain that she will meet the requirements for the GM title. Chess.com has learned that there might be an issue with one of the norms, so perhaps the cheering for Paehtz was premature, but let's hope not.
If she does get the title, Paehtz will be only the 40th female player in history to achieve this (and all happen to be still alive). She had missed her chances for a norm in rounds nine and 10, but on Sunday she pulled it off with a win against IM Bibisara Assaubayeva.


user4399: Update: Ah, see the list of all grandmasters. This has a death date column. Click on sex to get all the F's together and then see they're alive.

Wait wiki page for Zhansaya Abdumalik, the most recent female grandmaster and the most recent grandmaster, says (but it's unsourced)

She is the first Kazkakhstani woman, and the 38th woman overall, to earn the GM title.

So I guess they're all still alive since there are 38 female grandmasters in this list (i.e. this list is all female grandmasters and not just all living female grandmasters and thus all female grandmasters = all living female grandmasters). Then again the quote is unsourced.

4399: <p>Really female GMs and not WGMs. I notice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_chess_players" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> there's a 'deceased' list for female IMs but none for female GMs.</p>
<p>Is it really the case that there are only 38 females awarded GM title in history and they're all alive today?</p>
<p>For both the list and even <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/advaction.phtml?idcode=&amp;name=&amp;title=g&amp;other_title=&amp;country=%25&amp;sex=f&amp;srating=0&amp;erating=3000&amp;birthday=&amp;radio=name&amp;line=asc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the list on FIDE</a>, what I'm not quite seeing is a death date column with N/A for living players, so either they are lists for living female GMs or yes to what I asked.</p>
 15223: <p><a href="https://www.chess.com/news/view/alireza-firouzja-wins-fide-chess-com-grand-swiss-caruana-candidates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yes</a>.</p>
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<p>With Lei securing her victory on Saturday, the biggest story of the day was Paehtz reaching her third GM norm. She had earlier norms from 2011 and 2016, which still need to be checked before it's certain that she will meet the requirements for the GM title. Chess.com has learned that there might be an issue with one of the norms, so perhaps the cheering for Paehtz was premature, but let's hope not.</p>
<p><strong>If she does get the title, Paehtz will be only the 40th female player in history to achieve this (and all happen to be still alive)</strong>. She had missed her chances for a norm in rounds nine and 10, but on Sunday she pulled it off with a win against IM Bibisara Assaubayeva.</p>
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 4399: <p><strong>Update</strong>: Ah, see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_grandmasters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">list of all grandmasters</a>. This has a death date column. Click on sex to get all the F's together and then see they're alive.</p>
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<p>Wait wiki page for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhansaya_Abdumalik" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zhansaya Abdumalik</a>, the most recent female grandmaster and the most recent grandmaster, says (but it's unsourced)</p>
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<p>She is the first Kazkakhstani woman, and the 38th woman overall, to earn the GM title.</p>
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<p>So I guess they're all still alive since there are 38 female grandmasters in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_chess_players" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this list</a> (i.e. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_chess_players" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this list</a> is all female grandmasters and not just all living female grandmasters and thus all female grandmasters = all living female grandmasters). Then again the quote is unsourced.</p>
