2013 CCTV Anta Sports Personality
A dream in blue. Yifan in a stunning low-cut blue evening dress at the 2013 CCTV Anta Sports Personality awards ceremony that took place on 13 January 2014 in Beijing. She is accompanied by the General...
View ArticleHong Kong
At the end of February 2014 Yifan was invited to Hong Kong to play several simuls at the Hong Kong Chess Federation and the Caissa Hong Kong Chess Club. She was accompanied by her parents. During the...
View ArticleOh, Yifan!?!
Setting sail for new style shores or latest outrage of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un? Judge for yourself! The post Oh, Yifan!?! appeared first on Yifan Hou.
View ArticleChinese President invites Yifan to give a lesson
On the morning of May 4, China’s Youth Day, Jinping Xi, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPC (Communist Party of China), President of China and Chairperson of the Military Commission...
View ArticleFIDE Women’s Grand Prix Lopota
From June 18 to July 2, Yifan played in the 5th stage in Lopota, Georgia. Leading from start to finish, she won with a 9/11 score, a full two points over her nearest competitors. Many thanks to Alina...
View ArticleStories from Moscow
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014 after being shot down from Russian-controlled territory in Eastern...
View ArticleHou Yifan or Yifan Hou
Her given name is Yifan and the family name is Hou. In China family names precede the given name. So you often find the name written as Hou Yifan. Since these pages are mainly designed for people...
View ArticleSteps
. As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime and cannot last forever. The heart must submit itself courageously to...
View ArticleJudit Polgar announces retirement
Yes, it’s true, we definitely don’t like her FIDE sister, but we want to express our respect for an outstanding personality who dominated women’s chess for 26 years and was now about to lose her top...
View ArticleFIDE Women’s Grand Prix Sharjah
From August 24 to September 6, she competed in the 6th and final stage of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She finished joint first with Wenjun Ju with an 8.5/11 score. ....
View ArticleTata Steel Chess Tournament
Yifan Hou was once again invited to play the 2015 edition of Tata Steel Chess Tournament held from January 15th to 25th. She was the 12th seed out of 14 total participants in the Category 20 Master...
View ArticleTimeless
Absorbed in deep concentration during the games Yifan becomes timeless, completely detached from the world. In these moments she appears like a Work of Art, something in nature that is perfectly...
View ArticleGibraltar Chess Festival 2015
Shortly after the conclusion of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, she returned to the scene of her greatest chess tournament triumph, the Gibraltar Chess Festival 2015 held from January 27th to February...
View ArticleProblem Solving
Ukrainian school children have produced a cartoon, published on the website of the British ‘The Telegraph’, presenting one possible solution for many problems in the world of women’s chess and beyond:...
View ArticleHawaii Grandmaster Challenge 2015
In march she played the Hawaii Grandmaster Challenge 2015, a two-day four player quadruple blitz and rapid round robin event. She began the first day with a 3.5/6 score before crushing her opponents...
View ArticleBrothers in Spirit
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, self-appointed Buddhist and Hero of Kalmykia, can be considered as the Joseph Blatter of chess. Even though FIDE is only a dwarf against FIFA, both presidents have...
View ArticleDortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting
From 27th June to 5th July 2015 Yifan participated in the 43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting. After the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008 it was her second official stay in Germany. Among her...
View ArticleWho will play in Lviv?
During the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmund it became fully known that FIDE has arbitrarily postponed the Women’s World Chess Championship between Yifan and the younger sister of Anna Muzychuk from...
View ArticleLittle Love Song for Yifan
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View ArticleSo special, so beautiful
. Yes, Yifan played from September 10 at the World Chess Cup 2015. But who really cares about chess looking at the most recent pictures from Baku. The post So special, so beautiful appeared first on...
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