🌸 Hou Yifan
🌸 Chinese Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy. She has been the Women's World Chess Champion three times, the youngest ever to win the title, as well as the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.
🔸 Country: China
🔸 Born: 27 February 1994 (age 23)[1] Xinghua, Jiangsu, China[2]
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2008) Woman Grandmaster
🔸 Women's World Champion: 2010–2012 , 2013–2015 , 2016–2017
🔸 FIDE rating: 2654 (February 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2686 (March 2015)
♦️ Hou began playing chess when she was six years old. She began studying chess under Tong Yuanming, an International Master and a member of China’s national chess team. She became the youngest member of that team in 2003 and won her first international tournament in the girl’s under-10 division at the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) World Youth Chess Championship, held at Chalcidice (Chalkidhikí), Greece. At the 2006 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, she was defeated in the third round. She became the youngest Chinese women’s champion at the 2007 National Chess Championship, held in Chongqing. She earned the Woman Grand Master title from FIDE in 2007.
At the 2008 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Nalchik, Russia, Hou was defeated by Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia in the final match. Later in that same year, she became the youngest woman to win the (men’s) Grand Master title. Hou won the 2010 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Antioch, Tur. She tied Ruan Lufei in the final round and went on to defeat her in a series of “speed” tie-breaking games with a score of 2 wins, 2 draws, and 0 losses.
♦️ A memorable game by Hou Yifan from Biel 2017 which she was winner of this "International Chess Tournament".
Hou has won this game by a nice combination!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Rafael Vaganian vs Yifan Hou
🔹 Biel (2017), Biel SUI, rd 8, Aug-01
🔹 Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46)
♦️ Review and download analysed PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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🌸 Chinese Chess Grandmaster
♦️ Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy. She has been the Women's World Chess Champion three times, the youngest ever to win the title, as well as the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.
🔸 Country: China
🔸 Born: 27 February 1994 (age 23)[1] Xinghua, Jiangsu, China[2]
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (2008) Woman Grandmaster
🔸 Women's World Champion: 2010–2012 , 2013–2015 , 2016–2017
🔸 FIDE rating: 2654 (February 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2686 (March 2015)
♦️ Hou began playing chess when she was six years old. She began studying chess under Tong Yuanming, an International Master and a member of China’s national chess team. She became the youngest member of that team in 2003 and won her first international tournament in the girl’s under-10 division at the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) World Youth Chess Championship, held at Chalcidice (Chalkidhikí), Greece. At the 2006 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, she was defeated in the third round. She became the youngest Chinese women’s champion at the 2007 National Chess Championship, held in Chongqing. She earned the Woman Grand Master title from FIDE in 2007.
At the 2008 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Nalchik, Russia, Hou was defeated by Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia in the final match. Later in that same year, she became the youngest woman to win the (men’s) Grand Master title. Hou won the 2010 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Antioch, Tur. She tied Ruan Lufei in the final round and went on to defeat her in a series of “speed” tie-breaking games with a score of 2 wins, 2 draws, and 0 losses.
♦️ A memorable game by Hou Yifan from Biel 2017 which she was winner of this "International Chess Tournament".
Hou has won this game by a nice combination!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔹 Rafael Vaganian vs Yifan Hou
🔹 Biel (2017), Biel SUI, rd 8, Aug-01
🔹 Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46)
♦️ Review and download analysed PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
@unitychess
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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 5
⚪️Firouzja,Alireza (2549)
⚫️Debashis,Das (2501)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 5
⚪️Firouzja,Alireza (2549)
⚫️Debashis,Das (2501)
🔸1-0
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🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 6
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir (2724)
⚫️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2577)
🔸0-1
🔸Round 6
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir (2724)
⚫️Tabatabaei,M.Amin (2577)
🔸0-1
55...Kc6?? [It is hard to understand what Hou Yifan was thinking when she played this. She occupies a key square one tempo too early!]
[55...Kd6 56.c4 (56.b5 axb5 57.Kb4 c6 58.a6 Kc7 59.Kc5 b4 60.a7 Kb7 61.Kxb4 (61.Kd6?? d4) 61...Kxa7 62.Kc5 Kb7 63.Kd6 d4 64.Ke7 c5 65.Kxf7 c4 66.Ke7 d3 67.cxd3 cxd3 68.f7 d2 69.f8Q d1Q) 56...c5 The easiest way to make a draw. Both c6 and dxc4 are good enough but this is the most straightforward one! 57.b5 (57.cxd5 Kxd5) 57...axb5 58.cxb5 Kc7 59.Kc3 Kb7 60.Kd3 Ka7 61.Ke3 Kb7 62.Kf4 c4 (62...Ka7 63.Ke5 d4 64.Kd6 c4 65.Kc7 c3 66.b6+ Ka6 67.b7 c2 is still a draw.) 63.Ke3 c3]
56.c4! d4 [56...dxc4+ 57.Kxc4 Kb7 58.b5 and the farther past pawn decides the game!]
57.Kc2 Kd6 58.Kd2 c6 [58...c5 59.bxc5+ Kxc5 60.Kd3 Kb4 61.Kxd4 Kxa5 62.c5 Kb5 63.Kd5 a5 64.c6 and white is way too many tempi up!]
59.Ke2 Kd7 60.Kd3 Kc7 61.Kxd4 Kd6 62.Kd3 Kc7 63.Ke4 Kd6 64.Kd4 [A painful loss for Hou Yifan! She needs to work on this opening's pawn endgame curse!]
[55...Kd6 56.c4 (56.b5 axb5 57.Kb4 c6 58.a6 Kc7 59.Kc5 b4 60.a7 Kb7 61.Kxb4 (61.Kd6?? d4) 61...Kxa7 62.Kc5 Kb7 63.Kd6 d4 64.Ke7 c5 65.Kxf7 c4 66.Ke7 d3 67.cxd3 cxd3 68.f7 d2 69.f8Q d1Q) 56...c5 The easiest way to make a draw. Both c6 and dxc4 are good enough but this is the most straightforward one! 57.b5 (57.cxd5 Kxd5) 57...axb5 58.cxb5 Kc7 59.Kc3 Kb7 60.Kd3 Ka7 61.Ke3 Kb7 62.Kf4 c4 (62...Ka7 63.Ke5 d4 64.Kd6 c4 65.Kc7 c3 66.b6+ Ka6 67.b7 c2 is still a draw.) 63.Ke3 c3]
56.c4! d4 [56...dxc4+ 57.Kxc4 Kb7 58.b5 and the farther past pawn decides the game!]
57.Kc2 Kd6 58.Kd2 c6 [58...c5 59.bxc5+ Kxc5 60.Kd3 Kb4 61.Kxd4 Kxa5 62.c5 Kb5 63.Kd5 a5 64.c6 and white is way too many tempi up!]
59.Ke2 Kd7 60.Kd3 Kc7 61.Kxd4 Kd6 62.Kd3 Kc7 63.Ke4 Kd6 64.Kd4 [A painful loss for Hou Yifan! She needs to work on this opening's pawn endgame curse!]
Aeroflot Open 2018 , Final Round 9.pgn
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🔹 Open Aeroflot 2018 round 1-9
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Congratulations to 24-year-old Vladislav Kovalev from Belarus, who after making a draw from a position of strength is the 2018 #AeroflotOpen Champion and will play Kramnik & co. in the Dortmund..