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Hou Yifan (Chinese: 侯逸凡; pinyin: Hóu Yìfán pronunciation ⓘ; born 27 February 1994) [1] [2] [3] is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Shenzhen University. She is the second highest rated female player of all time. [4]
Hou Yifan then became the youngest female grandmaster in 2008 at 14 years and 6 months. [28] Hou also reached the top 100 in 2014, peaking at No. 55 a year later. [34] At some point by 2003, FIDE changed their regulations and began awarding the Grandmaster title to players who win the Women's World Championship if they are not already ...
Hou Yifan: 2686 2015-03 1994 Youngest female grandmaster (since 2008), female world no. 1 (since 2015), highest-ranked Chinese female player (since 2008) 3 India: Koneru Humpy: 2623 2009-07 1987 Highest-ranked Indian female player (since 2001), formerly youngest female grandmaster (2002–2008) 4 Russia: Aleksandra Goryachkina: 2611 2021-08 1998
Since Hou Yifan won the Grand Prix, her challenger was the runner-up, Koneru Humpy. [2] In 2011 Hou Yifan successfully defended her women's world champion title in the Women's World Chess Championship 2011 in Tirana, Albania against Koneru Humpy. Hou won three games and drew five in the ten-game match, winning the title with two games to spare.
Women's World Chess Championship, Tirana 2011. The match was scheduled to be played over 10 games with classical time controls: 90 minutes for first 40 moves with added 30 minutes for the rest of the game and a 30-second increment per move starting from the first move.
The match was played between defending champion Anna Ushenina, winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2012, and challenger Hou Yifan, the previous champion and winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012. After seven of ten games Hou Yifan won the match 5.5 to 1.5 to retake the title. [3]
As the Chinese New Year struck on Feb. 10, 2024, Zoe and Yifan stood under a Jewish chuppah of Chinese talismans and lanterns, wrapped in a Jewish prayer shawl (tallit), and were married. After ...
After Hou Yifan won the fourth and fifth stage, only she and Koneru Humpy were in contention for the overall win. Both ELO-rating favorites entered the sixth stage in Sharjah, UAE, with Humpy leading Hou Yifan by 5 points. [6] Needing at least 55 points and to finish above Humpy, Hou Yifan secured the overall Grand Prix win in round nine of ...