Twitter Hou Yifan and Harika Dronavalli set up an eagerly anticipated final match in the Julius Baer Women’s Speed Chess Championship 2023. GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 12.5-9.5 in the hotly contested 22-game semifinal match, which saw just three draws. Kosteniuk led by one ...
In 1991 Judit Polgar became a grandmaster, at the age of 15 years, four months and 28 days – breaking Bobby Fischer's 1958 record of 15 years six months and one day. Now Judit has been surpassed, by a 14-year-old Chinese prodigy: Hou Yifan, born three y
Hou Yifan, 19, dominated Anna Ushenina, 28, of Ukraine, winningfour games and drawing three.With...Mcclain, Dylan Loeb
Ahead of the Match in China to determine the 18th Women's World Champion, I was in Dubai for the inaugural edition of the Global Chess League, and there I caught up with Hou Yifan. A former Women's World Champion (2010-2017) and still the highest-rated player on the FIDE Women's ra...
November was the time of the38th Chess Olympiadin Dresden, Germany. Yifan played at the first board for the Chinese women's team. She won bronze as an individual 1st board prize. It was during the Olympiad that FIDE has approved her final GM norm and title. ...
BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese rising star Hou Yifan is still far from becoming the second female chess player to reach top 10 in the world rankings, according to legendary female chess player Judit Polgar of Hungary. "I don't know whether she can reach the top 10, but she is ...
While Yifan already secured the tournament victory in the penultimate round, her compatriots slipped down in the standings to be replaced on the shared second place by their slayers. Replay the games with computer analysis Final standings:
Hou Yifan, a 22-year-old Chinese chess star, won the Women's World Chess championship (冠军) for the1(four) time, She is the youngest player ever2(win) the prize. Hou began playing chess when she was six years old. Her father often took her to3bookshop after dinner. He noticed his...
Hi everyone, 12th Women’s World Chess Champion and Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk comments her chess blitz game against 13th Women’s World Chess Champion Hou Yifan at the 2012 Sport Accord World Mind Games in Beijing. The game is a sharp Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation. GM Kosten...
Hou Yifan, a 28-year-old girl, is a “queen of chess” in China. People around the world are impressed by the great chess player. Hou started to play chess at 5 years old in 1999. At that time, her parents took Hou to try different mind games at a training center. “With the ...