'' ... Of course ( Nona ) had earned the `` woman grandmaster '' title awarded by the International Chess Federation ( FIDE ) , as have some two dozen other women ... in Buenos Aires in November 1978 FIDE bestowed upon Nona Gaprindashvili the ( men 's ) international grandmaster title . ... Of course ( Nona ) had earned the `` woman grandmaster '' title awarded by the International Chess Federation ( FIDE ) , as have some two dozen other women . But she also earned the ( men 's ) international master title , becoming the first woman ever to have done so ( Vera Menchik was probably strong enough to have earned this title , but she died in 1943 ( sic ) , long before the modern title system was adopted ) , and in Buenos Aires in November 1978 FIDE bestowed upon Nona Gaprindashvili the ( men 's ) international grandmaster title .