At the 1977 Dutch championship in Leeuwarden. Round 3, April 20. Jan Timman is in play v. Paul Boersma. Viktor Korchnoi, looks on; he won this event with 12/13.
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Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) v. John van der Wiel (Netherlands), in the 3rd round of the Amsterdam OHRA tournament, 2nd August 1988.
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Before play in the 5th round of the tournament at Waddinxveen (Netherlands), 20th June 1979 - Lubomir Kavalek (USA) and Anatoly Karpov (USSR) shake hands.
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🅾️ #about_Hou_Yifan
💢 Hou Yifan
💢 Chinese chess Grandmaster
♦️Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, she is the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
🔸 Country: China
🔸 Born: 27 February 1994 (age 24)
Xinghua, Jiangsu
🔸 Title : Grandmaster (2008)
🔸 Women's World Champion:
▪️ 2010–2012
▪️ 2013–2015
▪️ 2016–2017
🔸 FIDE rating: 2658 (May 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2686 (March 2015)
♦️At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004, Woman Grandmaster in January 2007, and Grandmaster in August 2008. In 2010, she won the 2010 Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey at age 16.
She has been the Women's World Chess Champion about half the time since: she won all the championships without losing a game in which the title was decided by a match (in 2011, 2013 and 2016, with a total of ten wins to zero losses and 14 draws against three different opponents), but was either eliminated early or declined to participate in the championships in which the title was decided by a knockout tournament (in 2012, 2015 and 2017).
♦️ Hou is the third woman ever to be rated among the world's top 100 players, after Maia Chiburdanidze and Judit Polgár. She is widely regarded as the best active female chess player, "leaps and bounds" ahead of her competitors. As of March 2018, she is the No. 1 ranked woman in the world, 86 points ahead of the No. 2 ranked Ju Wenjun.
♦️ A memorable game by Hou Yifan👇🏼
🔹 Gabriel Sargissian vs Yifan Hou
🔹 Corus Group B (2008), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 11, Jan-25
🔹Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Nimzowitsch Variation (E15)
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💢 Hou Yifan
💢 Chinese chess Grandmaster
♦️Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, she is the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
🔸 Country: China
🔸 Born: 27 February 1994 (age 24)
Xinghua, Jiangsu
🔸 Title : Grandmaster (2008)
🔸 Women's World Champion:
▪️ 2010–2012
▪️ 2013–2015
▪️ 2016–2017
🔸 FIDE rating: 2658 (May 2018)
🔸 Peak rating: 2686 (March 2015)
♦️At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004, Woman Grandmaster in January 2007, and Grandmaster in August 2008. In 2010, she won the 2010 Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey at age 16.
She has been the Women's World Chess Champion about half the time since: she won all the championships without losing a game in which the title was decided by a match (in 2011, 2013 and 2016, with a total of ten wins to zero losses and 14 draws against three different opponents), but was either eliminated early or declined to participate in the championships in which the title was decided by a knockout tournament (in 2012, 2015 and 2017).
♦️ Hou is the third woman ever to be rated among the world's top 100 players, after Maia Chiburdanidze and Judit Polgár. She is widely regarded as the best active female chess player, "leaps and bounds" ahead of her competitors. As of March 2018, she is the No. 1 ranked woman in the world, 86 points ahead of the No. 2 ranked Ju Wenjun.
♦️ A memorable game by Hou Yifan👇🏼
🔹 Gabriel Sargissian vs Yifan Hou
🔹 Corus Group B (2008), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 11, Jan-25
🔹Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Nimzowitsch Variation (E15)
♦️ Review this informative game and download it's PGN file👇🏼
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✴️ FIDE Women's World Championship 2018
✴️ Round five!!
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✴️ Round five!!
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13...Qd7?
Lomasov carelessly loses a pawn. He is N0.2 in the Russian Under-16.
14.Qg5! Ne4 15.N×e4 B×e4 16.N×e5! Qf5 17.Q×f5 N×f5 18.Ng4 +/-
Lomasov carelessly loses a pawn. He is N0.2 in the Russian Under-16.
14.Qg5! Ne4 15.N×e4 B×e4 16.N×e5! Qf5 17.Q×f5 N×f5 18.Ng4 +/-