Even by the standards of chess prodigies, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game—dynamically but not dazzlingly, with an aggressive but flexible style. It was that she was ...
Hou Yifan's astonishing result at Tradewise Gibraltar last week marks a highly significant break-through for women's chess. China's 17-year-old beat four elite grandmasters, outplayed the great ...
FIVE MINUTES BEFORE the eighth round of the World Chess Grand Prix in Geneva, the room was silent. The competitors had taken their seats, 18 of the world's best chess players facing off across nine ...
The seventh-round battle at Tata Steel between world champion Magnus Carlsen and women’s world champion Hou Yifan had a number of twists and turns before Hou miscalculated and ruined what had been a ...
Hou Yifan from China won the Women’s World Chess Championship for the second time in the last three years. The Chinese prodigy has arguably been the best women player in the history of the game and is ...
If chess is ritualised psychological domination, China's Hou Yifan has Humpy Koneru in her pocket. Hou, the world women's champion at the age of 17, has just retained her title by defeating her Indian ...
The 19-year-old Chinese GM Hou Yifan regained the Women’s World Chess Championship title from Anna Ushenina, 29, of Ukraine in possibly the most one-sided match in the history of the competition at ...
Hou Yifan / Beijing Studio by Tim FrancoTim Franco for TIME Hou Yifan’s favorite chess piece is not the mighty queen but the humble pawn. “When the pawn gets to the other side, it can become anything ...
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