{{Short description|Russian chess player (born 2009)}} {{Infobox chess player | country = Russia (until 2023)<br/>FIDE (since 2023) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2009|5|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Orenburg, Russia | title = Woman Grandmaster (2025) | peakrating = 2456 (May 2026) | FideID = 54180058 }}
'''Anna Aleksandrovna Shukhman''' ({{langx|ru|Анна Александровна Шухман}}; born 6 May 2009) is a Russian chess player who is ranked as the highest rated girl in the world.<ref>{{cite web | title=Shukhman, Anna FIDE Chess Profile | url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/54180058|work=ratings.fide.com}}</ref>
==Early life and career== Shukhman was born on 6 May 2009, in Orenburg, Russia.<ref name=iz/><ref>{{cite web |title=АННА ШУХМАН |url=https://ruchess.ru/persons_of_day/anna_shukhman_pd/ |website=Федерация шахмат России |access-date=20 January 2026 |language=ru}}</ref>
She won the girls' Under-10 European Youth Chess Championship in 2019, and the women's World Junior Chess Championship in 2025.
In June 2025 she was ranked world no. 3 girl.<ref>{{cite web | title=FIDE World Top Chess players | url=https://ratings.fide.com/top_lists.phtml?list=open|work=ratings.fide.com}}</ref>
In October 2025, she became the Russian champion among adults at the age of 16, becoming the youngest champion in history and breaking the record of Aleksandra Goryachkina.<ref name=iz>{{cite web | title=Шухман и мат: как талантливая юниорка побила рекорд Горячкиной| url=https://iz.ru/1971957/timur-ganeev/suhman-i-mat-kak-talantlivaa-uniorka-pobila-rekord-gorackinoi|work=Известия|lang=ru}}</ref>
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