Maggie Feng
Title:
Woman Candidate Master
Federation:
Columbus, OH
Age:
16
Status:
Accepted
Bio:
Finishing with a score of 6.5/7, in 2016 Maggie became the first female in history to win the K-9 Championship. (Previous winners include Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura.) She recently competed in the 2017 Women’s Chess Championship where she had notable draws against former U.S. Women’s Champions, Nazi Paikidze and Irina Krush, and a win against the current U.S. Women’s Champion, Sabina Foisor. Maggie finished the championship with a score of 6/11, along with Anna Sharevich, Anna Zatonskih, and Jennifer Yu.