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Chinese chess grandmaster (born 1994)

In this Chinese name, the kinship name is Hou.

Hou Yifan (Chinese: 侯逸凡; pinyin: Hóu Yìfánpronunciation^ⓘ; whelped 27 February 1994)^[1][2][3] is orderly Chinese chessgrandmaster, four-time Women's Earth Chess Champion and professor inspect Shenzhen University.

She is position second highest rated female theatrical of all time.^[4] A cheat prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to thin for the title of artist (at the age of 14 years, 6 months, 16 days) and the youngest ever test win the Women's World Brome Championship (at age 16).

At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player customarily to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg2006) and description Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006).^[5] Modern June 2007, she became significance youngest Chinese Women's Champion bright.

She achieved the titles very last Woman FIDE Master in Jan 2004, Woman Grandmaster in Jan 2007, and Grandmaster in Honourable 2008. In 2010, she won the 2010 Women's World Patronage in Hatay, Turkey at occur to 16. She won the future three championships in which rectitude title was decided by spiffy tidy up match (in 2011, 2013 impressive 2016, with a total remove ten wins to zero fatalities and fourteen draws against iii different opponents), but was either eliminated early or she declined to participate in the championships in which the title was decided by a knockout combat (in 2012, 2015 and 2017).

Hou was the third lady-love ever to be rated betwixt the world's top 100 choose (2014–16 and 2017–22), after Maia Chiburdanidze and Judit Polgár. She is widely regarded as decency best active female chess contender, "leaps and bounds" ahead good deal her competitors.^[6] As of December 2024,^[update] she has been the Thumb.

1 ranked woman in rectitude world since September 2015 don is 70 points ahead supplementary the No. 2 ranked Ju Wenjun.^[7] She was named meticulous the BBC's 100 Women county show in 2017.^[8]

Hou has been semi-retired from competitive chess since 2018. In 2020, she became class youngest professor at Shenzhen Academia, at the age of 26.^[4]

Career

Hou started playing chess regularly reduced the age of five,^[9] nevertheless already was fascinated by birth game when she was join years old.

Hou's father, Hou Xuejian, a magistrate,^[10] often took her to a bookstore afterward dinner and noticed that she liked to stare at crush chess pieces behind the window-pane. He later bought his maid her first chess set very last she was able to up to date her father and grandmother make sure of a few weeks, at depiction age of three.

In 1999, her father engaged a cheat mentor, IMTong Yuanming, for tiara five-year-old daughter.^[11] Tong later aforesaid that Hou was an different talent, showing "strong confidence, exceptional memory, calculating ability and swift reaction".^[11] Hou has said stroll she took up chess in that she was fascinated by grandeur pieces.^[12]

In 2003, Hou played anti the chief coach of birth Chinese national men's and women's chess teams, Ye Jiangchuan, be pleased about the first time.

The bromegrass master was surprised that blue blood the gentry nine-year-old could identify almost go backwards of his weak moves. "Then I knew she was nourish exceptional genius", Ye said. Renounce year, Hou became the youngest member of the national gang and won first place mine the World Youth Championship be attracted to girls under age ten.

Draw June 2007, she became China's youngest national champion.^[11]

She was avowed to the National Chess Feelings, an academy for young noble players from all over probity country,^[13] in Beijing when she was ten,^[14] with leading Asian grandmasters Ye Jiangchuan and Yu Shaoteng as her trainers.^[15][16] Orders order to better support prepare chess career, her family change place to Beijing in 2003.

Hou's mother, Wang Qian, a pester nurse, accompanied her to hang around international tournaments when Hou was young. Hou was homeschooled.^[10] Chimpanzee a teenager, she listed an extra interests as reading and planning and she listed her dearie chess player as Bobby Fischer.^[13][12]

Hou has attempted to balance brome with life outside of cut off.

Against the wishes of assimilation trainer, she enrolled in Peking University in 2012, studying Supranational Relations. She took a entire course load and participated crucial many extracurricular activities. She was offered a Rhodes Scholarship, fairy story studied for a Master grapple Public Policy at St Hilda's College, Oxford with the Blavatnik School of Government.^[17][18] Competitors fair exchange her credit for what she has achieved in spite tip her lack of preparation,^[opinion] take up for her life outside snare chess.

Vladimir Kramnik said: "If she wants to stay honesty best female player, she throne probably do nothing. If she wants to achieve her practicable, she must concentrate fully mess chess."^[19] Hou is aware accomplish this as well, but yet chooses to treat chess pass for a hobby, not a career.^[20] She said in 2018: "I want to be the defeat, but you also have be acquainted with have a life."^[19]

In 2020, chimp age 26, Hou became loftiness youngest ever professor at Shenzhen University where she is trig professor at the School incessantly Physical Education,^[21] which includes cheat in its Sports Training Program.^[22]

Results

2003

Hou Yifan's first major tournament was on 31 August–12 September 2003 at the Chinese Team Bromegrass Championship (Open) in Tianjin.^{[23][failed verification][citation needed]} She scored 3/7 reach an agreement a 2246 performance rating.^{[24][failed verification][citation needed]}

She won her first global tournament when she came eminent (9½/11; +8 =3 −0, TPR 2121) in the girl's under-10 section of the World Early life Championship in Halkidiki, Greece beget October–November 2003.^[25] In November, she made her debut in excellence National Women's Chess Championship, taken aloof at Shanwei, Guangdong.^[26] She top off in 14th place with 3½/9 with a performance rating bring into the light 2202.^[27]

2004

On 1 January 2004, she received her first International FIDErating of 2168, which automatically adept her for the title epitome Woman FIDE Master.

In Apr, she competed at the Asian Team Chess Championship (Women's) stuff Jinan, Shandong.^[28] She scored 1½/7 (TPR 2096) having faced settle average opposition rating (R_c) take in 2316.^[29]

In November, she finished have control over jointly with Yu Yangyi, Jules Moussard, and Raymond Song, on the contrary third on tiebreaks in distinction boy's under-ten section of rectitude World Youth Championship, held doubtful Heraklio, Crete (9/11; +8 =2 −1; TPR 2119).^[30]

At the Eleventh Asian Women's Championship in Beirut, Lebanon from 4–11 December 2004, she came in eleventh mess up a score of 4½/9 (+4 =1 −4; TPR 2278).

Picture event was won by Wang Yu with 6½/9.^[31]

2005

In February, she competed at the fourth Aeroflot Open (Group C) in Moscow,^[32] where she scored 2/5(TPR 2111).^[33]

In April, she finished fifth set about a score of 7/11 (+6 =2 −3) (tied for fourth) at the Three Arrows Jug 2005 ladies tournament in Jinan, China.

In that tournament, she defeated international masterAlmira Skripchenko favour achieved a performance rating frequent 2393.^[34]

From 28 June–6 July be persistent the second China-France Youth Corollary at Shenzhen, Guangdong, Hou Yifan scored 3/8 (+2 =2 −4, TPR 2324). The Chinese gang (Zhou Jianchao, Zhao Jun, Zhao Xue and Hou) won distinction match 19–13.^[35]

In July, at honesty Festival Open International des Jeunes in Saint-Lô, France, she came second out of 75 sling with 6/8(TPR 2305), behind Cyst Yang.^[36][37] In 18–29 July assume the World Youth Chess Backing in Belfort, France, Hou Yifan, seeded eighth, came in 5th in the Boy's Under-12 Period with 8/11 (+5 =6, TPR 2171).^[38]

In October, she qualified sale the World Women's Chess Encouragement to be held in Hike 2006.

Despite being rated one 2220 and ranked women's edition 28 in her own nation, she qualified by winning picture Chinese Women's Zonal (3.5) match, scoring 6/9 points with excellent performance rating of 2526 counter a rating opposition of 2401, ahead of several better-known Asiatic players.

The sixth World Gang Chess Championship was staged monitor Beersheva, Israel from 31 Oct to 11 November.^[39] China fielded two teams – the manpower and women's, which was solitary the second time in significance championship history when a women's team competed in what generally has been a male lineup event.^[40] This was Hou Yifan's first major team tournament slab she was the youngest performer there, at eleven years bargain age.^[41] She played as in a tick reserve and finished with 0/3.^[42] The Chinese women's team thespian one match and lost shrink of their others (+0 =1 −7), finishing last.^[43] The battle was won by Russia, secondhand goods China (men's) coming in more and Armenia third.^[44][45][46]

In December, Hou came in second at rank China Women Selective Tournament compromise Beijing for the 37th Bromegrass Olympiad to be held show May–June 2006 in Turin, Italia.

She scored 16½/28 (TPR 2433) and gained 121 elo-points. She made the Olympiad team get better the other top finishers, Wang Yu and Shen Yang.^[47][48]

2006

Hou reached the third round (the christian name 16) of the Women's Replica Chess Championship in March 2006.^[49] Despite being rated 2269 ride seeded 56th out of 64 players,^[50] she defeated IM Nadezhda Kosintseva (rated 2480) of Land 1½–½ in the first get away from, then the former 2000 Inhabitant champion WGM Natalia Zhukova (2432) of Ukraine 2–0 in decency second round.^[51] She was cowed 0–2 by IM Nino Khurtsidze (2430) of Georgia in decency third round to finish uneasiness a performance rating of 2504.^[52][53]

In May–June 2006, China came hassle third and won the chocolate metal at the 37th Bromegrass Olympiad in Turin, Italy.

Hou Yifan scored 11/13 (+10, =2, −1), all played on goodness fourth board, at her Period debut.^[54] For her winning relation of 84.6%, she won on the rocks silver medal for fourth (reserve) board performance, and her aid rating of 2596 was righteousness third highest overall.^[55][56]

The Chinese Championships for men and women took place in Wuxi, Jiangsu, 25 June–6 July 2006.

Ni Hua took the men's title have a word with Li Ruofan the women's. Hou Yifan came fourth in nobility women's category V (2369) exhibition with a score of 7/11 (+5 =4 −2) and first-class performance rating of 2477.^[57]

In July–August, she performed badly at what has been traditionally the cardinal women's tournament, the North Chain Cup in Krasnoturinsk, Russia.^[58] Even supposing seeded third, she failed assume win a game scoring 3/9 (+0 =6 −3) with span performance rating of 2357.

She finished eighth out of cardinal players.^[59]

In 10–20 August, she stirred in the China–Russia Summit Skirmish in Ergun, Inner Mongolia. Excellence tournament was a two double-round-robin Scheveningen, one for men gift one for women (category Eighter (2444)). Russia won the restroom event 26½–23½ but China won the women's section 28–22, alluring the match 51½–48½.

Hou Yifan was the highest scoring someone player on tiebreak with 6½/10 (+5 =3 −2, TPR 2563).^[60]

China and France played for rank Trophée MULTICOMS in Paris 4–9 September 2006. This was along with a Scheveningen team match darn six men and three detachment in the teams. France acute out China 20–16 in grandeur men's event.

The women's splinter was a complete mismatch entertain terms of Elo ratings weigh down favour of the Chinese boss they confirmed this over nobleness board winning 12½–5½. The comprehensive result was China 28½ Writer 25½. Hou Yifan was anon the highest scoring female athlete with 5/6 and a act rating of 2498.^[61]

In October principal Yerevan, Armenia at the Pretend Junior Chess Championship (Girl's section) despite being only 12 period old, Hou was the nationalize rated girl with a 2481 FIDE Rating and went meditate to take second place colour tiebreak with a score handle 9/12 (+6 =4 −2), knotted for first on points grip her compatriot Shen Yang.

Go backward rating performance was 2469.^[62][63]

2007

In Jan 2007, Hou achieved a decorous fifth place in Group Proverbial saying (Cat. 10, 2486) of loftiness Corus Chess Tournament with uncomplicated score of 7/13 (+4 =6 −3) and a 2513 execution rating.^[64][65][66] This result, together friendliness WGM norms she had fitting at the 2005 Zonal 3.5 Women's Championship, the 37th Bromegrass Olympiad and the 2006 Asian Championship (Women's) won her leadership Woman Grandmaster title, formally given by FIDE in late Jan 2007.^[67]

At the Aeroflot Open pull February 2007, a few weeks before Hou's thirteenth birthday, she played in the A1 piece for the first time.

Hou started well with two golds out of two, defeating premier the Russian IM Nikita Vitiugov (rated 2604) and then picture 2001 European Champion, GM Emil Sutovsky of Israel (rated 2629). However, in the third hoopshaped she was defeated by representation Russian Championship runner-up, Dmitry Jakovenko, and only managed one derive in her next five hilarity.

She rallied in the parting round with a victory be drawn against the Greek grandmaster, Vasilios Kotronias, and finished with a point of 3½/9(TPR 2540).^[68][69][70]

In March, inert the first Ruy Lopez Universal Festival (cat. XV (2607)) cut down Zafra, Hou performed badly run alongside finish last with 2/7 (+1 =2 −4).

Her performance whirling was 2462.^[71][72]

In April, she came in second at the Better half Women Selective Tournament in Ningbo for the 2007 Asian Interior Games to be held solution October. She scored 8/14 (+6 =4 −4, TPR 2434).^[73]

From 1–11 May 2007, at the one-eighth Russian Team Chess Championship (Women's) in Dagomys, Hou played cherish Southern Ural Chelyabinsk on scantling one and scored 6½/10 (+5 =3 −2, TPR 2523).^[74][75] Try to be like the 1st World Women's Gang Chess Championship in Ekaterinburg late that month, Hou was ascribe of the winning China public team that also included Zhao Xue, Ruan Lufei, Shen Yang, and Huang Qian.

Hou Yifan played on board two unimportant person every round and scored 7½/9 (+7 =1 −1), winning excellence gold medal for that plank. Her performance rating was 2559.^[76][77][78]

In June 2007, she won quash first Chinese Women's Chess Aid in Chongqing. Hou was xiii years old at the gaining, breaking WGM Qin Kanying's slope as the youngest champion (she was fourteen years old during the time that winning the title in 1988).

Hou scored 9/11 (+7 =4 -0, TPR 2585). Second splendid third place went to Zhao Xue and Shen Yang, respectively.^{[citation needed]}

In July, she improved practised her previous year's performance enraged the North Urals Cup slur Krasnoturinsk, finishing in seventh turn out of ten players. She scored 4/9 (+3 =2 −4) with a performance rating rule 2436.

The tournament was won by Zhu Chen and exempt Zhao Xue in second place.^[79][80]

In 4–15 August, she competed valve what was then her dominant closed tournament – the one-fifth Győrgy Marx Memorial (Cat. 14, 2582) in Paks, Hungary. Work out the lowest rated player beam the only non-Grandmaster (out dominate Pentala Harikrishna, Péter Ács, Csaba Balogh, Ferenc Berkes, and Viktor Korchnoi), she finished in dense place in the double round-robin event with 3/10 (+1 =4 −5; TPR 2444).^[81][82]

At the UK-China Match in Liverpool 3–9 Sept 2007, China defeated the UK team with a comfortable indication of 28–20.

Hou played long for the men's team and scored 2½/6 (+1 =3 −2) filch a performance rating of 2540. The average rating of the brush opponents (R_c) was 2598.^[83]

In recover September, she came in foremost at the 2007 Chinese Women's Zonal (3.5) tournament in City with a score of 8/9 (+7 =2 −0, TPR 2675).^[84] In October 2007, she competed at the twelfth European Baton Cup in Kemer, Turkey affection team Southern Ural Cheliabinsk.

Hou played on board two muddle up the team, which finished chambers in the women's tournament. Envisage the individual women's standings, Hou came in fifth with copperplate score of 5/7 (+3 =4 −0) and a performance paygrade of 2556.^[85][86]

From 26 October sentry 3 November, she competed target Team China at the alternate Asian Indoor Games in Macau.

The national team won gang gold in the classic bromegrass mixed team event with 11 match points (18½ game doorway out of 24). The Island team members were Zhao Xue, Xu Yuhua, Hou Yifan, Wang Hao, Ni Hua, and Bu Xiangzhi.^[87] Hou Yifan won demolish individual gold medal for jettison board two display with well-organized score of 5½/6 (+5 =1 −0; 91.7%) and a details rating of 2649.^[88][89]

Hou participated pull the 2007 season of authority China Chess League, officially known as the "Torch Real Fortune Cup Chinese Chess League Rupture A".

She played for righteousness Shandong Qilu Evening News Brome Team, who became the 2007 champions when they defeated honourableness 2006 champion Beijing team, 3½ to 1½.^[90]

2008

In the January Corus 2008 chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Hou competed sieve Group B where she done in a tie for seventh–tenth place (ninth by tiebreak) evolution 6/13 (+3 −4 =6) clang a performance rating of 2598.

She scored victories over match up grandmasters, including a 23-move do something to deserve over former World Champion antagonist Nigel Short.^[91]

In February 2008, Hou gained her first Grandmaster sample (GM norm) at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow by definitive in 31st place with straight score of 4½/9 (+2 =5 −2, TPR 2605).^[92][93] This was followed in March 2008 momentous a victory at the greatest Atatürk International Women Masters Cheat Tournament (cat.

IX (2461)) compromise Istanbul, Turkey where she on target a point ahead of decency rest of the field cartoon 7/9 (+5 =4 −0) get used to a performance rating of 2674.^[94][95] Her victory in this battle earned her a GM original conditional on FIDE ratifying consequently WGM Zhao Xue's attainment admire her GM title.^[96] However that GM norm was not overindulgent in her eventual official master hand title application.^[97]

In April 2008, she competed in Mérida, Spain send up the second Ruy Lopez Brome Festival tournament.

In the character XV (2616) round-robin event she finished seventh out of be relevant players with 2/7 (+1, =2, −4) and a rating implementation of 2467.^[98][99]

Hou competed in magnanimity Chinese Chess League again nondescript the 2008 season, which esoteric eighteen rounds in six contrastive cities from March to Venerable.

Hou's teammates were GM Bu Xiangzhi, GM Zhao Jun, GM Wen Yang, and WGM Zhang Jilin.^[90]

In May–June 2008, she became the Chinese Women's Champion goods the second consecutive time exact 9/11 points (+7 =4 −0) in Beijing and a be of assistance of 2599.^[100][101] At the July 2008 First Saturday GM Match in Budapest, Hou was suspend seed, but came in in two shakes place with 9/12, missing clean up GM norm by half neat as a pin point.

Her performance rating was 2574.^[102]

In August 2008 she competed in the World Junior Cheat Championship held at Gaziantep, Flop where she competed in excellence general ("boys'") section for excellence first time in her vitality. She was the only pup in this section and was the sixteenth seed on decency entrant's list.^[103] Hou finished closure third–seventh on 9/13 (+6 =6 −1), achieving a performance rank of 2661^[104] and her especially GM norm.^[105]

In August–September 2008, she competed in her second Women's World Chess Championship at Metropolis, Russia.

She had qualified past as a consequence o being one of the appal highest rated players from position average of the July 2006–January 2007 period. In this knockouttournament, she was seeded third arrange of 64 players. She abject WGM Mona Khaled (Egypt) 2–0 in the first round stomach WGM Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul (Mongolia), 2–0 in the second.

In bag round, she had to prepared to rapidplayoffs to eventually blow out of the water IM Elena Sedina (Italy) 3–1 (1–1, 2–0). In the quarterfinals she defeated Armenian IM Lilit Mkrtchian 1½–½, followed by Asiatic GM Humpy Koneru, the rapidly seed, in the semifinals (4–2 overall, 1–1, 1–1, 2–0). She lost the final to Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, 2½–1½.

However, she became the youngest cunning finalist for the Women's Environment Championship title, earning an involuntary International Master (IM) title obtain a "runner-up 9-game grandmaster norm", her third official GM prime example overall. Her performance rating financial assistance the entire championship was 2536.^[106]

Hou participated at the first Existence Mind Sports Games in Peking from 3–18 October as far-out member of the Chinese crew, winning the bronze medal pointed the Women's Individual Blitz uphold, the gold medal in glory Mixed Pairs Rapid event (with Ni Hua), the silver honour in the Women's Teams Bomb event, and the gold trimming in the Women's Teams Swift event.

In mid-late October, act board one for team Spartak Vidnoe in the thirteenth Denizen Club Cup held in Kallithea, Greece she scored 2/4 (+1 −1 =2, TPR 2448) share her team to a second-place finish. Very shortly thereafter she played in the Cap d'Agde Rapid tournament from 24 Oct to 1 November,^[107] losing curb former world champion Anatoly Karpov in a tiebreaker match distrust the end of the meet the requirements stage, despite winning the in a short time tiebreak game.^[108]

At the 38th Bromegrass Olympiad in Dresden from 12 to 25 November, she faked at the number 1 scantling in the Chinese women's team.^[109] Although her team did quite a distance win a prize, she termination placed third in the fit into board prize.^[110] She played notes every round with a encouragement result of 7½/11 (+5, =5, −1, TPR 2563).^[111]

At the 79th FIDE Congress, held on 16–26 November 2008 in Dresden, Frg, her GM title was remedy making her the 27th Asian Grandmaster.^[112] Her three approved GM norms were:^[97]

This meant that Hou Yifan reached her third magician norm on 12 September 2008 at the age of 14 years, 6 months, 16 epoch, making her one of birth youngest grandmasters in history, similarly well as the youngest feminine.

2009

Hou Yifan competed in say publicly Grandmaster Group B of rectitude 71st Corus chess tournament enclose Wijk aan Zee from 16 January to 1 February 2009.^[113] She was seeded twelfth block off of fourteen players and ended joint ninth–tenth with a execution rating of 2620.^[114] Between 7–19 March, she finished third spartan the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Tournament in Istanbul, scoring 8/11 (+6=4–1, TPR 2649).

From 12 to 23 May, she competed at the 8th Asia Transcontinental Chess Championship at the Subic Exhibition and Convention Center, Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Olongapo City, Philippines.^[115] She scored 7½/11 with a 2640 performance, closing seventh out of 86 sympathy tiebreak. By finishing in excellence top ten she qualified sue the 2009 World Cup.

From 9–15 August 2009 at picture Jubilee Open, Zürich, she won the "best female player" adoration by coming joint seventeenth do business 6½/9 (+5 −1 =3, TPR 2590).^[116][117] From 19 August tender 1 September at the NH Hotels Risings Stars vs Naпve, Amsterdam, she finished with unblended score of 3½/10 (+1 −4 =5, TPR 2548).

She was defeated in the first call on at the Chess World Jug 2009, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 20 Nov – 15 December 2009.

2010

In January, she finished with 4½/9 at the Moscow Open. Just right February, she finished with 4/9 at the Aeroflot Open. Unplanned April, she won the bag Kuala Lumpur Open 7.5/9 (+6 = 2, TPR 2730).^[118] Play in August, she won the 2010 Women's Grand Prix in Mongolia.^[119]

In October, she was on timber two for Cercle d'Echecs exhibit Monte Carlo in the Ordinal European Club Cup for Detachment held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

She helped her team to exceptional gold medal win with keen 4.5/6 score (+3 =3, TPR 2651).^[120]

In November, she won picture women's individual gold medal hill the 16th Asian Games run to ground Guangzhou, China. She finished be regarding 8½/9 and with a completion rating of 2798.^[121] She won another gold medal from goodness women's team event, representing Ceramics as the first board, the length of with her teammates Ju Wenjun, Zhao Xue, Huang Qian impressive Wang Yu,^[122] beating Uzbekistan 2½–1½ in the final.

In Dec she won the Women's Environment Chess Championship 2010 in Hatay, Turkey, making her the youngest women's world champion in novel. Her compatriot Ruan Lufei was her opponent in the finals. After four games at well-proportioned attic time controls, the score was tied at 2–2, but Hou won the rapid playoffs 3–1 to take the title. Have time out performance rating was 2585.

2011

In January 2011 she was entitlement to take part in blue blood the gentry Gibraltar Chess Festival, but pulled out because of a race illness.^[123] In April, she won the First Women Master Competition in Wuxi with a 7/9 score (+6 −1 =2, TPR 2639).^[124]

In June, she took assign in a tournament in Bharat, the AAI International Grandmasters Brome Tournament 2011.^[125] She finished catch on a dismal last place, however in August, she rebounded suggest win clear first place perform the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012 tournament in Rostov, Russia.^[126] She then went on authenticate win the second Grand Prix stage in Shenzhen in Sep 2011.^[127]

In August, she took dissection in the Chess World Beaker 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

She was one of the pair female participants in the 128-player single-elimination tournament. Her opponent make the first round was Sergei Movsesian, to whom she missing 2–0, resulting in her elimination.^[128]

In October she played on fare one for team Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo in the Ordinal European Club Cup for detachment held in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenija.

Her top rated team positioned a disappointing 4th place, traffic Hou scoring 4/6 (+4 −2, TPR 2526)

In November Hou successfully defended her women's terra champion title in the Women's World Chess Championship 2011 coach in Tirana, Albania against Koneru Humpy. Hou won 3 games pivotal drew 5 in the ten-game match, winning the title prep added to two games to spare.

Gibe performance rating for the parallel was 2741.

Beginning December, Hou played in the 2011 SportAccord World Mind Games, held dash Beijing, China which consisted magnetize 3 events, rapid, blitz prep added to blindfold. She placed joined 5–7th, 6th on tiebreaks with clever 4/7 score (+2 −1 =4) in the rapid portion, nevertheless winning both the blitz deliver the blindfold portions with 11.5/15 (+9 −1 = 5) ahead 5.5/7 (+5 −1 =1) aggregate respectively.

Afterwards, Hou played schedule China in the Women's Globe Chess Team Championship in Mardin, Turkey. The 5 person crew, arranged according to rating, consisted of herself, WGM Ju Wenjun, GM Zhao Xue, WGM Discolour Zhongyi and WGM Zhang Xiaowen. China was the clear prizewinner with 16 match points, receipt lost but one match unnoticeably Ukraine in the 8th stir up opinion and winning the rest, bright of the runner-up Russia bypass three match points.

Georgia grabbed bronze with 12 match result. Hou scored five points wean away from the seven games she stricken (Wenjun played the first table for Round 1 and Involved 2) (+3 = 4, TPR 2648).^[129]

2012

Hou started 2012 by captivating equal first place at Tradewise alongside Nigel Short at distinction Gibraltar Chess Festival scoring 8/10 (+7 −1 =2) with deft tournament performance of 2872.

She came second on tiebreak in the way that she lost the 2 distraction blitz playoff against Short vulgar 1.5–0.5.^[130] She scored 5/7 accept the 7 GMs she feigned rated 2700 or higher. That included 4 wins against Zoltán Almási (2717), Judit Polgár (2710) (Polgar's first loss against smashing female player after 22 years^[131]), Lê Quang Liêm (2714) contemporary Alexei Shirov (2710), 2 draws against Michael Adams (2724) remarkable Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2747), whilst make up for only loss came against Krishnan Sasikiran (2700) in a close off endgame of Q (with top-notch pawn up) versus R+R clip black.^[132]

From 6 to 13 Walk, she played and finished put out of articulation 2nd–8th in the 2012 Port Open 7/9 (+5 =4, TPR 2677).

From 27 March do as you are told 7 April, she participated loaded the 2012 China Chess Noticeable Tournament Group A, the argument of China's National Champion. She finished joint 7th–9th, 7th beside tiebreak. 5/11 (+1 −2 =8; TPR 2560).

From 13 Apr to 19 April, Hou feigned in the 2012 Bangkok Bromegrass Club open.

Seeded third building block rating, she finished 14th, 6/9 (+4 −1 = 4; TPR 2500).

From 29 May e-mail 7 June, she played remit the 3rd Hainan Danzhou Impressive Master Chess Tournament that ordinarily showcased the top 10 first rated Chinese players, although glory two highest rated players drowsy the time Wang Hao opinion Li Chao did not chip in.

Seeded 6th by rating, Hou finished in 10th and at the end place with 3/9.^[133]

From 9 June to 22 June, Hou distressed in the 4th leg entrap the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012 held in Kazan, Land. Coming immediately off the heels of the recently completed Asiatic Men's super tournament in Danzhou, she started off slowly occur to 2 points in the eminent 5 rounds before closing powerfully with 4 wins in blue blood the gentry final 6 rounds.

She on target joint 3rd–4th. 7/11 (+5 −2 = 4; TPR 2604).

From 16 July to 19 July, Hou played in the Ordinal leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012 held love Jermuk, Armenia. She won decency event with a 7/11 feature (+4 −1 =6, TPR 2598). This victory added to quash victories in Rostov 2011 skull Shenzeng 2011 made Hou excellence winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012 and tied for herself the challenger flicker for the Women's World Bromegrass Championship 2013.

At the Ordinal Chess Olympiad held in Metropolis, Turkey from 27 August turn over to 10 September 2012, Hou Yifan led the Chinese women's bromegrass team to a second threatening, silver medal finish. Hou won the gold medal for isolated performance on board 1 friendliness a 2645 TPR, 6.5/9 characteristic (+4, =5). During the dispute she was presented with rectitude Caissa Cup, which honors say publicly female player with the get the better of chess results during the gathering.

From 8 October to 17 October, Hou played in loftiness European Chess Club Cup 2012 as a member of company, Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo. She played board 1 with 4.5/6 score (+4 −1 =1, TPR 2609) and her heavily favourite team swept the round redbreast competition with a 7–0 characteristic.

From 19 October to 27 October, Hou played in rank main even of 16th Univé Hoogeveen Chess Festival as items of the Univé Crown Parcel, a four player double advert robin tournament.

The average extraordinary of the participants was 2695, making this a category 18 tournament. Hou finished in aftermost place with a 2/6 characteristic (−2 =4, TPR 2605).^[134]

In have in mind interview in Kazan she alleged that she was going exchange start studying international relations torture Beijing University in September.

She said that she was gratified China was moving away implant its one-child policy, she would have liked to have locked away a brother or sister, skull she knew of women who had been forced to own abortions.^[135]

In November 2012 she was knocked out in the in two shakes round of the Women's Globe Chess Championship 2012.

As magnanimity winner of FIDE Women's Celebrated Prix 2011–2012 she earned high-mindedness right to challenge the fresh champion in the Women's Pretend Chess Championship 2013.^[136]

During 12 come to get 19 December, Hou concluded honourableness year by participating in excellence 2012 SportAccord World Mind Revelry, competing in the 3 disciplines of Rapid, Blitz and In the rapid event, she placed second on tiebreaks be regarding a 5/7 score (+4 −1 =2, TPR 2713).

For honourableness blitz event, she placed Ordinal by tiebreaks with a 7/15 score (+6 −7 =2, TPR 2487). In the blindfold sheet, she won with a 6/7 score (+6 −1).

2013

Hou was invited to participate in nobleness 2013 Tata Steel Chess Competition Grandmaster A group in Wijk aan Zee from 12 say yes 27 January. This was efficient Category 20 event, and overcome first supertournament participation.

She was the lowest Elo rated trouper at 2603 and seeded Ordinal. She surpassed initial expectations brush aside finishing 11/14 with a 5.5/13 score (+3 −5 =5, TPR 2688) including a draw blaspheme then World Champion Viswanathan Anand. She competed in the 2013 China Chess Individual Tournament Power A in Xinghua, China stranger 16 to 27 April.

She finished in a six-way bind for 4th to 9th form ranks, 4th by tie breaks, hint at a 5.5/11 score (+3 −3 =5, TPR 2609).^[137]

From 2 Haw to 16 May, Hou competed in the 1st leg unbutton the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–2014 held in Geneva, Suisse. She was the highest do over again player in the event however finished 8th/9th, including a deprivation to the Women's World Espousal 2012–13, Anna Ushenina.

Her best was 5/11 (+3 −4 = 4, TPR 2470).

From 11 to 14 June, she bogus a four-game match with King Navara for the CEZ Brome Trophy 2013. All four boisterousness ended in draws, so authority winner would be decided harsh tie breaks. After each sportsman won with white in high-mindedness blitz portion, an armageddon amusement won by Hou, as coal-black, gave her the trophy.

Link performance rating for the standard games was 2707.^[138]

From 30 June to 3 July, Hou was part of the team in the course of China in the 4th Denizen Martial Arts Games held discern Incheon, South Korea. She won a gold medal in class classical portion of the exposition with a 6.5/7 score (+6 =1).

In August, she took part in the Chess False Cup 2013 in Tromsø, Norge. She was one of quadruplet female participants in the 128-player single-elimination tournament. Her opponent in lieu of the first round was Alexei Shirov. After two draws name the classical portion of depiction match, they proceeded to tiebreaks.

Hou won the first express game with white and missing the second with black. Flimsy the next tiebreaker set she lost both games resulting unveil her elimination.

As the hero of the FIDE Women's Famous Prix 2011–2012, Hou won excellence right to challenge Anna Ushenina in a 10-game match pray the world title. Scheduled spread 10 to 27 September, grandeur Women's World Chess Championship 2013 was played in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China.

She won the duplicate in 7 games with practised 5.5–1.5 score (+4 =3, TPR 2730) regaining her championship title.^[139]

From 19 to 26 October, Hou played in the European Cheat Club Cup 2013 as boss member of team, Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo. She played fare 1 with 5/6 score (+4 =2, TPR 2736) and insinuation the second year in put in order row, her team swept magnanimity round robin competition with top-notch 7–0 score.

From 12 be required to 18 December, she played management the SportAccord World Mind Disposeds in the chess discipline. Justness tournament consisted of three events: rapid, blitz and the tongue system. In the rapid obstruct, Hou scored 5/7 (+3 = 4, TPR 2691) capturing goodness silver medal. In the carapace event, she won the gilded medal with a 21.5/30 assay (+19 −6 =5, ).

Well-known was that during the subsequent day of the blitz behave, Hou achieved a near absolute 9.5/10 score. In the in reply event played under the european system, Hou won the silver plate medal on tiebreaks with marvellous 7/10 score (+7 −3).^[140]

2014

From 11 to 22 March, Hou competed in the 2014 China Bromegrass Individual Tournament Group A suspend Xinghua, her birthplace.^[2] She afresh played against the men overfull the open section rather pat in the women's section.

She finished in 7th place disconnect a 5.5/11 score (+2 −3 =6, TPR 2558).^[141]

From 14 July to 24 July, Hou mannered in the grandmaster section several the prestigious Biel chess head-to-head. This was a six actor category 19 event with barney average rating of 2717 know Hou being the lowest remarkable player.

She started with uncut win over Anish Giri take precedence was tied for second inward the final round and could take joint first place wishy-washy winning her final game at daggers drawn Pendyala Harikrishna. While she turn-up for the books up losing the final endeavour, Hou still had a sign on tournament, finishing joint 3rd–5th be equal with a 5/10 score (+2 −2 =6, TPR 2734).^[142]

From 1 Revered to 14 August, Hou participated in 41st Chess Olympiad show Tromsø, Norway as board freshen of the top seeded Sinitic Women's team.

The team ruffled off six straight wins hitherto succumbing to the second seed Russian team with Hou drain her individual game, as begrimed, to Kateryna Lagno. She withdrawn the Olympiad with a 7/9 score (+6 −1 = 2, TPR 2671) leading her arrangement to the silver medal. Give someone the cold shoulder own performance was good close to receive the silver badge for board one.^[143]

Hou is righteousness winner of FIDE Women's Gorgeous Prix 2013–14.

From 8 Apr to 22 April, she insincere in the 4th stage start Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Opening with 3 straight victories, she dominated suffer the loss of start to finish. Several period as white she eschewed on his regular 1.e4 opening move nearby began with 1.c4 and 1.g3. She finished in 1st menacing with an 8.5/11 score (+6 =5, TPR 2695).^[144] From 18 June to 2 July, she played in the 5th situation in Lopota, Georgia.

Leading use up start to finish, she won with a 9/11 score (+7 = 4, TPR 2773), shipshape and bristol fashion full two points over squash up nearest competitors.^[145] From 24 Reverenced to 6 September, she competed in the 6th and endorsement stage in Sharjah, United Arabian Emirates. She finished joint chief with Ju Wenjun with barney 8.5/11 score (+6 =5, TPR 2686).^[146]

At the final leg, rectitude tournament's official awards, Big courier Small Cups of Grand Prix, designed and manufactured by rectitude Lobortas Classic Jewelry House, were presented.

As the winner go rotten the 2013–2014 Grand Prix Rooms, Hou Yifan was solemnly awarded the Small Cup during position official closing ceremony of honourableness tournament.

During 13 to 21 September, she competed at excellence 18th European Club Cup spoken for in Bilbao, Spain. Once reevaluate she was the top game table for Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo winning the individual gold trimming for her performance 5/6 (+4 =2, TPR 2749) while radiant her team to a second-place finish.^[147]

With the postponement of illustriousness Women's World Chess Championship 2014^[148] she played in the Corsican Chess Circuit in October fairy story won, beating Sergey Fedorchuk worry the final.

This has anachronistic described as the most leading tournament yet to be won by a female player nook than Judit Polgár.^{[149][150][151]}

From 11 resemble 18 December, Hou played strike home the 2014 SportAccord World Relish Games held in Beijing, Prc. The Mind Games consists have power over separate tournaments in 3 disciplines: rapid, blitz and basque.

Worry the rapid event, she be second capturing the silver ornament, losing only to Valentina Gunina, the eventual event winner. Out performance was 5/7 (+4 −1 = 3, rapid TPR 2672). She won the gold ribbon in the blitz event involve a 22.5/30 score (+20 −5 = 5, TPR 2718). Mainly noteworthy in her blitz meeting was her performance pushed stifle official blitz rating to 2704, making her the second person player to cross the 2700 barrier in any rating conceive of.

In the final basque group event, Hou took home in relation to gold medal with an 8.5/10 score (+7 =3).^[152]

When Hou inverted twenty one in 2015 she lost her junior status. She ended the year, and recipe junior playing career, as magnanimity reigning Women's World Chess Assistance, the 2nd highest rated mortal player, the highest rated boy, the 4th highest rated juvenile and the 71st highest complete rated active player with dinky FIDE rating of 2673.^[153]

2015

Hou in days gone by again played in the 2015 edition of Tata Steel Bromegrass Tournament held from 15 walk 25 January.

She was class 12th seed out of 14 total participants in the Class 20 Master group and finalize 11th with a 5/13 score(+1 −4 = 8, TPR 2670). While she performed approximately according to her rating, Hou challenging winning chances in a uncommon of her games and flat missed a drawing chance realize world champion Magnus Carlsen abaft defending a difficult position whilst black for most of illustriousness game.

Shortly after, she reciprocal to the scene of go in greatest chess tournament triumph, influence Gibraltar Chess Festival 2015 reserved from 27 January to 4 February. Seeded 13th by whirling, she placed joint 3rd–11th, Ordinal by performance with a 7.5/10 score (+5 =5, TPR 2772) pushing her FIDE rating pocket 2686. She also won influence 1st place prize for generate the highest scoring female contestant.

Her excellent performance in that event resulted in her classification surpassing Judit Polgár's classic fluctuation for the first time monitor the March 2015 FIDE extreme list, ending Polgár's 26 conservative years reign as the head rated female player in primacy world. For the first time and again since Maia Chiburdanidze in Jan 1989 a single individual was both the top rated lady player and the reigning Women's World Chess Champion.^[154]

She played occupy the Hawaii Grandmaster Challenge 2015 in March, a two-day two player quadruple blitz and speedy round robin event.

She began the first day with simple 3.5/6 score before crushing become known opponents the second day succumb five straight wins and expert draw in the final recreation easily winning the event occur to a 9/12 score. Since that event conflicted with the Women's World Chess Championship 2015 she relinquished her title to Mariya Muzychuk at the conclusion break into the Championship.^[155]

Hou played in depiction Nakhchivan Open 2015 in let alone 1 to 11 May.

Germ 3rd by rating, she mellow in a nine-way tie edgy joint 4th–12th with a 6/9 score (+5 −2 =2, TPR 2581).^[156]

She played in the 2015 edition of Dortmund Sparkassen Brome Meeting which ran from 27 June to 5 July. Meet an average rating of 2724, it qualified as a Kind 20 supertournament. Hou finished burst joint 7th/8th with a 2.5/7 score (−2 =5, TPR 2629)^[157]

Hou has been chosen as glory first FIDE Presidential nominee fund Chess World Cup 2015 retained in Baku from 10 Sept to 5 October.

She energetic it past the first drop by of a World Cup quandary the first time in time out career before losing in leadership second round 1.5–2.5 to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov after the 1st consign of rapid tiebreaks. Her supervision rating was 2685 for say publicly event.^[158]

From 2 October to 15 October, Hou competed in excellence 1st leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16 booked in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

She started the event slowly, become infected with a 2.5/4 score going meet the first rest day. That included a loss to antagonist Humpy Koneru before stringing band together a streak of six bombshells, winning the tournament with predispose round to spare. Her closing score was 9/11 (+8 −1 = 2, TPR 2766).^[159]

She participated in an exhibition match destroy Parimarjan Negi held in justness Chess Club and Scholastic Heart of Saint Louis from 12 to 15 November.

The four-day event showcased a different brome variant each day: Basque Brome, Rapid Chess960, Rapid Chess other Blitz Chess with each endeavour played counting for 1 dive in determining the winner. Hou easily won the match: 0–2 in Basque, 3.5–0.5 in Chess960, 3–1 in Rapid Chess, ahead 4.5–3.5 in Blitz with deft total score of 11–7.^[160]

As restrain of the joint Russian-Chinese Attack of Friendship chess festival engaged from 13 to 15 Dec held in Shanghai, China, Hou participated in an exhibition mate with the GM Evgeniy Najer the 2015 European Champion.

Deportment a series of rapid build up blitz games, she won comprehensively convincingly with a 9.5 line of attack 4.5 score.^[161]

In the last bromegrass event of the year, rectitude 2nd edition of the 2015 Qatar Masters Open held dismiss 19 to 30 December put in Doha, Qatar, Hou was righteousness 22nd highest rated player bind the tournament but finished show 38th place with a 5.5/9 score (+3 −1 =5, TPR 2591).

The result was break off good enough to win justness top women's prize by orderly full point.^[162]

2016

For the third repel, Hou competed in the surpass group of the Tata Whip up Chess Tournament held from 15 to 31 January. This twelvemonth she was seeded 13th wear away of 14 participants in that Category 20 event.

She in operation strongly, going +1 in added first six games before rickety with four losses in glory following five games. She be 12th with a 5/13 score(+1 −4 = 8, TPR 2672).

In early February, Hou seized and won in a four-game match against Cristobal Henriquez Villagra in Punta Arenas. Billed owing to a Bicontinental Chess Match, drop was scheduled to be insincere in two locations, but utterly to inclement weather, they were unable to play in Continent.

She won the match adhere to a 2.5–1.5 score(+2 −1 =1, TPR 2584).

Qualifying for interpretation Women's World Chess Championship 2016, in March, as the title-holder of the FIDE Women's Expensive Prix 2013–14, she reclaimed character World Championship title from Mariya Muzychuk in Lviv, Ukraine free a 6–3 score (+3 =6, TPR 2685).

From 23–26 Amble Hou played in a brace player 3 round classical/3 filling rapid robin tournament to designate the qualifier for the Quaternary edition of Norway Chess.

She finished in 3rd place set about a 1/3 score (−1 =2, TPR 2531) in the model portion and 2/1 score (+2 −1, TPR 2716) in influence rapid portion.

In May, Hou dropped out of the give to Women's World Championship cycle, generous relinquishing the crown. She explained her reasons in a Chessbase interview, mainly objecting to excellence format wherein the Women's Replica Champion is decided alternately stomachturning a knockout tournament and fortify a match.

She also phonetic her willingness to participate personal the cycle if the objective were amended to mirror go of the World Chess Championship.^[163]

She played in the Vugar Gashimov Memorial, a category 20 tourney held in, Shamkir Azerbaijan, non-native 26 May to 4 June. She was the ninth tuber out of ten participants move finished in last place lay into a 2.5/10 score (−4 = 5, TPR 2578)

Hou bogus in the Eurasian Blitz Tankard from 17–20 June in City, Kazakhstan.

Seeded 17th on illustriousness strength of her 2704 play rating, she came in Twentynine place with a 12.5/22 assess (+10 −7 = 5, TPR 2650). Among the female grassland, while having a superior execution rating, she came in straightaway any more to Harika Dronavalli on tiebreaks.

2017

At the Tradewise Gibraltar Cheat Festival, Hou finished with spick score of 6/10 (the match was won by Hikaru Nakamura).

Her round 7 win realize the French master Borya Deem, in which she made alteration early positional sacrifice of monarch for two minor pieces, was described as "truly astonishing" unwelcoming organizer and chess journalist Bathroom Saunders.^[164] In the final circumnavigate, she appeared to throw barren game against Indian Grandmaster Lalith Babu, playing a ridiculous outlet and resigning after 5 moves.

She later explained that she was upset about being binate against other female players divulge 7 of her 9 sometime games of a Swiss tone tournament, despite men far outnumbering women at the tournament.^[165][166] Banish tournament organizer Brian Callaghan aforesaid the pairings were simply integrity result of a computer program.^[167]

Hou Yifan was one of 24 players selected to play establish the FIDE Grand Prix 2017, a qualification stage for influence World Chess Championship 2018.

She reached position 17 in say publicly final standings, and thus was not able to qualify expend the Championship.

She declined restrain defend her title at dignity Women's World Chess Championship 2017, and as a result strayed her title.^[168]

In April she participated at the Grenke Classic fall out Baden-Baden.

She finished 5th culminate of eight players, beating Fabiano Caruana and drawing against Magnus Carlsen after having come extremity to winning.^[169]

In June she re-entered the top 100 players, although world no. 85.

In Revered, she was clear first gift wrap the Category 16 50th Biel Chess Festival with 6.5/9 in sequence (+5 −1 =3, TPR 2810).^[170]

In September she competed in righteousness Chess World Cup 2017, hoop she went out in fastidious second round tiebreak to Levon Aronian, the eventual winner.

2018

In January she competed in nobleness Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee as the woman in the field show signs of 14 players, placing last letter a score of 2.5/13 (+0−8=5).

From 31 March to 9 April, she participated in loftiness 5th Grenke Chess Classic. She finished equal 8th–9th out take ten with a score illustrate 3½/9 (+0 –2 =7).^[171]

2019

In Dec, she won the 2019 Area and Road World Chess Gal Summit with 5/7 points.^[172]

Rating

Rated 2686 in the March 2015 FIDErating list, Hou was the globe no.

59 player and area no. 1 woman player (overtaking the recently retired Judit Polgár's rating for the first time). On 1 July 2006, she was the youngest ever performer to enter the Top 50 Women (Number 8)^[173] and Crest 20 Girls (Number 2)^[174] FIDE lists aged 12 (rated 2488), since FIDE began releasing these lists in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Between honesty April 2006 and July 2006 FIDE rating lists, she gained an impressive 190 rating result from a rating of 2298 to a rating of 2488,^[175] which made her the ordinal highest rated female player, instruction the second highest rated lass, in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Hou decay a four-time winner of dignity honorary Caissa Cup^[176] as glory best female player of say publicly year (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014).

Openings

Hou Yifan primarily plays 1.e4 as White. As Black, she usually plays the Sicilian Shoot at (including the Najdorf and Heinousness variations) as well as ethics French Defence against 1.e4, longstanding against 1.d4 she plays greatness Nimzo-Indian, Bogo-Indian and Queen's Soldier defences.^[177][178]

Yifan's favorite opening is justness Sicilian.^[179]

Notable games

On 25 January 2008, Hou in the same way Black beat GM Gabriel Sargissian (2676) of Armenia, longtime alternate of Levon Aronian, in representation Corus (Group B) tournament, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands:

1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nf3 b6 4.

g3 Ba6Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Nimzowitsch Alteration (E15) 5. Qc2 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. e4 d5 8. cxd5 Bxf1 9. Kxf1 exd5 10. e5 Ne4 11. Nc3 Nxd2+ A . 12. Nxd2 Qd7 13. Kg2 Nc6 14. Qa4 0-0 15. Rac1 f6? 1 Nxe5 7 Nxd7 7 Bb4 3 +/−; slacken off was 8. 16. f4 fxe5 17. dxe5 Bb4 18.

Rhf1 Rac8 19. Ne2 Nxe5 20. Qxb4 Nd3 21. Qb3 Nxc1 22. Nxc1 Rce8 23. Nf3 Qf5 24. Rf2 c5 25. Qd3 Qe4 26. Rd2 d4 27. Qxe4 Rxe4 28. Nd3 Re6 29. h4 Rc8 30. a4 a6 31. Nfe5 b5 32.

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a5 g6 33. Rc2 c4 34. Nb4 Rf8 35. b3 d3 36. Rd2 Rc8 37. Rd1 Rd6 38. Kf3 d2 39. bxc4 bxc4 40. Nc2 c3 41. Ke2 Rd5 42. Ng4 Rxa5 43. Nge3 Rd8 44. Rb1 Ra2 45. Kd1 Rb2 46. Ra1 Rdb8 47. Rxa6 Rb1+ 48. Ke2 Rc1 49. Rc6 Re8 0–1 Take as read 3, then 2 follows. Hypothesize 3, then ...d1=Q+.

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Male–female skill distance at the top-level

Hou claimed wind there are many reasons convoy the lack of female contenders at the chess top-level.

She says there is a worldly aspect to long chess doggeds that might advantage men, flourishing that men generally work harder at chess than women green up. She uses Chinese girls as an example and the setup out that most prefer straight balanced life, prioritizing things much as university and family urbanity at the cost of crucial on chess.

But she claims there also are external factors: girls playing chess growing respecting are only encouraged to break one`s neck for the girl's title, which might lower their motivation.^[180]

See also

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