The best German chess player, Elisabeth Pähtz, will in future be the first German to hold the title of grandmaster.
The 36-year-old Berliner by choice came second in the World Cup qualifiers in Riga on Sunday.
For this she not only received $ 15,250 in prize money, but also secured a third title norm for grandmaster.
She had already won the lower-ranking title of women's grandmaster at the age of 16.
Twenty years later, she is now the first German and fortieth woman in the world to be awarded the highest lifetime title in chess.
Against the Kazakh Bibisara Assaubajewa Pähtz got the necessary victory in the last round and then spoke of the "tournament of my life".
Vincent Keymer also continued his rise to the top of the world in Riga.
The 16-year-old scored seven points in eleven rounds against almost exclusively higher-rated opponents.
For his fifth place among more than a hundred grandmasters, the new German number one received $ 16,773 in prize money.
A few weeks after his second place at the European Championships, Keymer even had a chance of one of the two places played in Riga in the World Cup Candidates' tournament until the last round.
These go to 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja, who recently started for France and climbed to fifth place in the world rankings, and to third place in the world rankings Fabiano Caruana from the USA.