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Hou Yifan at the 2008 World Junior Chess Championship, Gaziantep, Turkey where she gained a GM norm In April 2008, she competed in Mérida, Spain at the second Ruy Lopez Chess Festival tournament. In the category XV (2616) round-robin event she finished seventh out of eight players with 2/7 (+1, =2, −4) and a rating performance of 2467.
In 2017, Hou Yifan caused controversy by intentionally losing her final game of the tournament in 5 moves against Babu M.R. Lalith to protest the pairings. Hou had grown dissatisfied in recent years with playing in women-only tournaments, and had just dropped out of the Women's World Chess Championship cycle. In Gibraltar, she faced 7 women in ...
The Women's World Chess Championship 2011 was the 35th of its kind. ... Champion Hou Yifan retained her title, [5] defeating challenger Koneru Humpy by 5½ - 2½. [6 ...
The Women's World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match played between Mariya Muzychuk, the defending champion, and the challenger Hou Yifan to determine the FIDE Women's World Champion. The scheduled 10-game match was held from 1 to 14 March 2016 in Lviv , Ukraine .
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
The Chinese Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of China ... Hou Yifan: 2008: Ni Hua: Hou Yifan: 2009: Ding Liren: Shen Yang: 2010 ...
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]
Recently, Hou Yifan has been the leading female chess player, for example winning the Biel GM tournament in 2017. [58] In February 2017, [59] the Iranian Chess Federation [60] banned Dorsa Derakhshani from playing for the national team or in national tournaments after she played in the 2017 Gibraltar Chess Festival without wearing a hijab. [61 ...