She won the German Youth Chess Championships in 1994 (girls U15 group), in
Dorfen 1995 (girls U17 group) in
Wurmannsquick and 1996 (girls U17 group) in Kerwitz. In 1995 she finished tenth at the
European Youth Chess Championship in U16 girls group in
Żagań. She won the
Hessian individual chess championship for women in 1995 in
Hofheim, in 1996 in
Hofbieber and in 1997 in
Bergen-Enkheim. In 2000 she was third at the women's world chess championship of the
FISU in
Varna. In 2001 in
Krefeld she won
German Women's Chess Championship. In 2011 she won the German Women's Blitz Championship in
Gladenbach. In November 2000 she received the title of Women International master (WIM). Since September 2006 she has held the title Women Grandmaster (WGM). She achieved the norms for this at a WGM tournament in
Krk in 2004, as well as at the
European Women's Team Chess Championship 2005 in
Gothenburg and at the
7th European Women's Individual Chess Championship in 2006 in
Kuşadası. She won the
Baden-Württemberg Women's
Rapid Chess Championship in 2008 in
Heidelberg with a lead of 1.5 points. With the German national team, she took part in the European Women's Team Chess Championships in 2001, 2003 and 2005, receiving an individual gold medal in Gothenburg 2005 for her result of 6 points from 8 games on third board. She played in
2004 and in
2006 at the
Women's Chess Olympiad for Germany. In 2007 she fought on board three of the German national team at the
World Women's Team Chess Championship in
Yekaterinburg. Her first club was the Hessian
SC Hainstadt, after which she moved to
VSG Offenbach. From 1998 she played for the
OSG Baden-Baden with whom she played in the
Chess Women's Bundesliga seasons 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05. Since the Chess Women's Bundesliga season 2007/08 she has been playing for the
Karlsruher Schachfreunde (for whom she already played in the Chess Women's Bundesliga season 1999/2000 as a guest player) in the 2nd federal league South and the Oberliga Baden as well as with the women in the 1st and 2nd Chess Women's Bundesliga. In France, Jessica Schmidt plays with
Cercle d’Echecs de Strasbourg. == References ==