The women's chess team of Turkmenistan in the FIDE world ranking managed to rise by as much as 40 positions, the electronic newspaper "Golden Age" reports.

The rating is published by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) on a monthly basis.

The average rating of the leading "ten" Turkmen chess players, who now ranks 56th among 200 countries, is 1940.

Such an unexpectedly rapid growth in team rating indicators is primarily due to the high tournament activity that is observed in the chess field in Turkmenistan after the “pandemic silence”. Chess players who have passed into the status of "passive" during the years of the pandemic are returning to their worthy "active" places, thanks to a series of tournaments held by the Chess Federation of Turkmenistan over the past three months.

A feature of these national competitions, unlike previous years, is that the organizers provide calculation of individual ratings of games played at all national level tournaments, which allows each chess player to score a rating corresponding to his level of play in the FIDE international rating list.

Male chess players also improved their rankings, moving up one step in the world rankings to 66th place compared to the previous month. International master Yusup Atabayev showed a noticeable jump in rating indicators, who has now become the leader of the rating list of Turkmen chess players. His rating reached 2516.