Career
Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest female players in the world. She has been ranked Number. 1 woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three occasions (January 1984, July 1984 and January 1985).
In October 2007, well into her forties, she still held the third highest rating among all females.
Cramling regularly plays on the Swedish open team in the Chess Olympiads, one of only three women to do southern In 1992, she became the third female to earn the (FIDE) General Motors title through conventional tournament play (sixth woman overall).
According to herself, one explanation for this is that the World Championship is a team effort and that more prominent chess nations are able to give their players better support in important events. Nevertheless, Cramling has been in reasonably close contention for the crown on four occasions (all in different decades).
In the 1986 and 1996 Candidates cycle she came in fourth and third respectively, while she reached the semifinals of both the 2008 and 2015 Championships.