Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Hou Yifan

Index Hou Yifan

Hou Yifan (born 27 February 1994), China Chess League is a Chinese chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Chess Champion. [1]

217 relations: Abortion, Aeroflot Open, Albania, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alexei Shirov, Almira Skripchenko, Amsterdam, Anatoly Karpov, Anish Giri, Anna Ushenina, Antarctica, Asian Chess Championship, Asian Games, Babu M.R. Lalith, Baden-Baden, Baku, Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul, Beersheba, Beijing, Beirut, Belfort, Biel Chess Festival, Bobby Fischer, Bogo-Indian Defence, Bu Xiangzhi, Budapest, Cap d'Agde, Chalkidiki, Chess, Chess at the 2010 Asian Games, Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, Chess Olympiad, Chess prodigy, Chess tournament, Chess World Cup 2009, Chess World Cup 2011, Chess World Cup 2013, Chess World Cup 2015, Chess World Cup 2017, Chess960, ChessBase, China, China Chess League, Chinese Chess Championship, Chongqing, Corus 2008 chess tournament, Cristobal Henriquez Villagra, Csaba Balogh, Dagomys, Danzhou, ..., David Navara, Dmitry Jakovenko, Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, Dresden, Elena Sedina, Elo rating system, Emil Sutovsky, Ergun City, European Individual Chess Championship, Evgeniy Najer, Fabiano Caruana, Fast chess, Ferenc Berkes, FIDE, FIDE Grand Prix 2017, FIDE titles, FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–11, FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–12, FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14, FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16, French Defence, Gabriel Sargissian, Gaziantep, Geography of chess, Gibraltar Chess Festival, Glossary of chess, Grandmaster (chess), Guangdong, Harika Dronavalli, Heraklion, Hikaru Nakamura, Hou (surname), Huang Qian, Humpy Koneru, Interzonal, Israel, Istanbul, Jiangsu, Jinan, John Saunders (chess player), Ju Wenjun, Judit Polgár, Kateryna Lagno, Kazan, Kemer, Khanty-Mansiysk, Krasnoturyinsk, Krishnan Sasikiran, Kuala Lumpur, Lê Quang Liêm, Levon Aronian, Li Chao (chess player), Li Ruofan, Lilit Mkrtchian, List of chess grandmasters, List of chess openings, List of female chess players, Liverpool, Lviv, Macau, Magnus Carlsen, Maia Chiburdanidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Mérida, Spain, Michael Adams (chess player), Mona Khaled, Moscow Open, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Nakhchivan (city), Nalchik, Natalia Zhukova, New In Chess, Ni Hua, Nigel Short, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Ningbo, Nino Khurtsidze, Norm (chess), Norway Chess, Olongapo, Paks, Parimarjan Negi, Péter Ács, Peking University, Pentala Harikrishna, Playoffs, Punta Arenas, Qin Kanying, Queen's Indian Defense, Rhodes Scholarship, Rostov, Round-robin tournament, Ruan Lufei, Russian Chess Championship, Ruy Lopez, Saint-Lô, Sergei Movsesian, Sergey Fedorchuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Shandong, Shanwei, Shen Yang (chess player), Shenzhen, Sicilian Defence, Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation, Single-elimination tournament, SportAccord World Mind Games, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Swiss-system tournament, Taizhou, Jiangsu, Tan Zhongyi, Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Tianjin, Tiebreaker, Tirana, Tong Yuanming, Turin, Turkey, Valentina Gunina, Vasilios Kotronias, Viktor Korchnoi, Viswanathan Anand, Wang Hao (chess player), Wang Yu (chess player), Wen Yang (chess player), White and Black in chess, Wijk aan Zee, Women's World Chess Championship, Women's World Chess Championship 2006, Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Women's World Chess Championship 2011, Women's World Chess Championship 2012, Women's World Chess Championship 2013, Women's World Chess Championship 2015, Women's World Chess Championship 2016, Women's World Chess Championship 2017, World Chess Championship, World Chess Championship 2018, World Junior Chess Championship, World Mind Sports Games, World Team Chess Championship, World Youth Chess Championship, Wuxi, Xinghua, Jiangsu, Xu Yuhua, Ye Jiangchuan, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan, Yu Shaoteng, Zafra, Zürich, Zhang Jilin, Zhang Xiaowen (chess player), Zhao Jun (chess player), Zhao Xue, Zhou Jianchao, Zhu Chen, Zoltán Almási, 2007 Asian Indoor Games, 2010 Asian Games, 37th Chess Olympiad, 38th Chess Olympiad, 40th Chess Olympiad, 41st Chess Olympiad, 42nd Chess Olympiad. Expand index (167 more) »

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Abortion · See more »

Aeroflot Open

The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Aeroflot Open · See more »

Albania

Albania (Shqipëri/Shqipëria; Shqipni/Shqipnia or Shqypni/Shqypnia), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Albania · See more »

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Alexandra Kosteniuk · See more »

Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs;; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Alexei Shirov · See more »

Almira Skripchenko

Almira Skripchenko (born 17 February 1976) is a Moldovan-French chess player who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Almira Skripchenko · See more »

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Amsterdam · See more »

Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Anatoly Karpov · See more »

Anish Giri

Anish Kumar Giri (अनिश कुमार गिरी; born June 28, 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch Grandmaster and former chess prodigy.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Anish Giri · See more »

Anna Ushenina

Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina (Анна Юріївна Ушеніна; born 30 August 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Anna Ushenina · See more »

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Antarctica · See more »

Asian Chess Championship

The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations (FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.7).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Asian Chess Championship · See more »

Asian Games

The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Asian Games · See more »

Babu M.R. Lalith

M.R.Lalit Babu or Musunuri Lalit Babu (born in Vijayawada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian chess Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Babu M.R. Lalith · See more »

Baden-Baden

Baden-Baden is a spa town located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Baden-Baden · See more »

Baku

Baku (Bakı) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region, with a population of 2,374,000.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Baku · See more »

Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul

Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul (born 8 October 1987) is a Mongolian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul · See more »

Beersheba

Beersheba, also spelled Beer-Sheva (בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע; بئر السبع), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Beersheba · See more »

Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Beijing · See more »

Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Beirut · See more »

Belfort

Belfort is a city in northeastern France in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Belfort · See more »

Biel Chess Festival

The Biel International Chess Festival is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Biel Chess Festival · See more »

Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Bobby Fischer · See more »

Bogo-Indian Defence

The Bogo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The position arising after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 is common.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Bogo-Indian Defence · See more »

Bu Xiangzhi

Bu Xiangzhi (born December 10, 1985) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and Chinese champion in 2004.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Bu Xiangzhi · See more »

Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Budapest · See more »

Cap d'Agde

Cap d'Agde is a seaside resort on the Mediterranean sea in Agde, France: a commune in the department of Hérault within the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Cap d'Agde · See more »

Chalkidiki

Chalkidiki, also spelt Chalkidike, Chalcidice or Halkidiki (Χαλκιδική, Chalkidikí), is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the Region of Central Macedonia in Northern Greece.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chalkidiki · See more »

Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess · See more »

Chess at the 2010 Asian Games

Chess at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou Chess Institute, Guangzhou, China from November 13 to 26, 2010 with four individual and team events.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess at the 2010 Asian Games · See more »

Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis

The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is a chess venue, located in the Central West End, Saint Louis.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis · See more »

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess Olympiad · See more »

Chess prodigy

Chess prodigies are children who can beat experienced adult players and even Masters at chess.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess prodigy · See more »

Chess tournament

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess tournament · See more »

Chess World Cup 2009

The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess World Cup 2009 · See more »

Chess World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess World Cup 2011 · See more »

Chess World Cup 2013

The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess World Cup 2013 · See more »

Chess World Cup 2015

The Chess World Cup 2015 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 10 September to 5 October 2015.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess World Cup 2015 · See more »

Chess World Cup 2017

The Chess World Cup 2017 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2 to 27 September 2017.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess World Cup 2017 · See more »

Chess960

Chess960, also called Fischer Random Chess (originally Fischerandom), is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, announced publicly on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chess960 · See more »

ChessBase

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates servers for online chess.

New!!: Hou Yifan and ChessBase · See more »

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and China · See more »

China Chess League

The China Chess League (CCL) is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs.

New!!: Hou Yifan and China Chess League · See more »

Chinese Chess Championship

The Chinese Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chinese Chess Championship · See more »

Chongqing

Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Chongqing · See more »

Corus 2008 chess tournament

The 2008 Corus chess tournament was a Grandmaster level chess tournament held in the de Moriaan Community Centre, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands from 12 January to 28 January 2008.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Corus 2008 chess tournament · See more »

Cristobal Henriquez Villagra

Cristóbal Henríquez Villagra (born 7 August 1996) is a Chilean chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Cristobal Henriquez Villagra · See more »

Csaba Balogh

Csaba Balogh (born 10 March 1987 in Budapest) is in a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Csaba Balogh · See more »

Dagomys

Dagomys (Дэгъумес.); is a microdistrict of Sochi, Russia (12 km from the city centre), known for its resorts, vacation spots and tea plantations.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Dagomys · See more »

Danzhou

Danzhou is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Danzhou · See more »

David Navara

David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess grandmaster, the highest-ranked player of his country.

New!!: Hou Yifan and David Navara · See more »

Dmitry Jakovenko

Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Dmitry Jakovenko · See more »

Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting · See more »

Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Dresden · See more »

Elena Sedina

Elena Sedina (Елена Седина.; Оле́на Се́діна, Olena Sedina; born 1 June 1968 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Elena Sedina · See more »

Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Elo rating system · See more »

Emil Sutovsky

Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess grandmaster and the president of the Association of Chess Professionals since 2012.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Emil Sutovsky · See more »

Ergun City

Ergun (É'ěrgǔnà Shì; Эргүн Ergün), formerly Ergun Right Banner (ᠡᠷᠬᠥᠨ᠎ᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ Эргүнэ хот), is a county-level city in China's autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ergun City · See more »

European Individual Chess Championship

The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union.

New!!: Hou Yifan and European Individual Chess Championship · See more »

Evgeniy Najer

Evgeniy Yuryevich Najer (translit; born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the European champion of 2015.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Evgeniy Najer · See more »

Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian-American chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Fabiano Caruana · See more »

Fast chess

Fast chess (also known as speed chess) is a variation of chess in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under normal tournament time controls.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Fast chess · See more »

Ferenc Berkes

Ferenc Berkes (born 8 August 1985) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ferenc Berkes · See more »

FIDE

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE · See more »

FIDE Grand Prix 2017

The FIDE Grand Prix 2017 was a series of four chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2018.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE Grand Prix 2017 · See more »

FIDE titles

The World Chess Federation, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), awards several performance-based titles to chess players, up to and including the highly prized Grandmaster title.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE titles · See more »

FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–11

The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–11 was a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women, which formed part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2011.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–11 · See more »

FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–12

The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–12 was a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women, which formed part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2013.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–12 · See more »

FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14

The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 is a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women, which formed part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2015.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 · See more »

FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16

The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16 was a series of five chess tournaments exclusively for women, which determined one player to play in the Women's World Chess Championship 2018, a 10-game match against the knockout world champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16 · See more »

French Defence

The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5, with Black intending...c5 at a later stage, attacking White's and gaining on the.

New!!: Hou Yifan and French Defence · See more »

Gabriel Sargissian

Gabriel Eduardi Sargissian (Գաբրիել Էդուարդի Սարգսյան, Gabriel Eduardi Sargsyan; born 3 September 1983) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Gabriel Sargissian · See more »

Gaziantep

Gaziantep, previously and still informally called Antep (Այնթապ, Kurdish: Dîlok), is a city in the western part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region, some east of Adana and north of Aleppo, Syria.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Gaziantep · See more »

Geography of chess

Chess is played all over the world.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Geography of chess · See more »

Gibraltar Chess Festival

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is a chess tournament held annually at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Gibraltar Chess Festival · See more »

Glossary of chess

This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Glossary of chess · See more »

Grandmaster (chess)

The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Grandmaster (chess) · See more »

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Guangdong · See more »

Harika Dronavalli

Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess grandmaster She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Harika Dronavalli · See more »

Heraklion

Heraklion (Ηράκλειο, Irákleio) is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Heraklion · See more »

Hikaru Nakamura

is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Hikaru Nakamura · See more »

Hou (surname)

Hou is a Chinese surname, listed the 80th in the Hundred Family Surnames.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Hou (surname) · See more »

Huang Qian

Huang Qian (born July 18, 1986) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Huang Qian · See more »

Humpy Koneru

Humpy Koneru (born 31 March 1987, Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Humpy Koneru · See more »

Interzonal

Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Interzonal · See more »

Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Israel · See more »

Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Istanbul · See more »

Jiangsu

Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Jiangsu · See more »

Jinan

Jinan, formerly romanized as Tsinan, is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Jinan · See more »

John Saunders (chess player)

John Cameron Saunders (born 1953 in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire) is a British chess player, writer, editor and journalist.

New!!: Hou Yifan and John Saunders (chess player) · See more »

Ju Wenjun

Ju Wenjun (born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ju Wenjun · See more »

Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Judit Polgár · See more »

Kateryna Lagno

Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno (Катерина Олександрівна Лагно; Екатерина Александровна Лагно; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian), Ukrayinska Pravda Sport (12 July 2014) chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Kateryna Lagno · See more »

Kazan

Kazan (p; Казан) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Kazan · See more »

Kemer

Kemer is a seaside resort and district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, west of the city of Antalya, on the Turkish Riviera.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Kemer · See more »

Khanty-Mansiysk

Khanty-Mansiysk (Ха́нты-Манси́йск, lit. Khanty-Mansi Town; Khanty: Ёмвош, Yomvosh; Mansi: Абга, Abga) is a town and the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Khanty-Mansiysk · See more »

Krasnoturyinsk

Krasnoturyinsk (Краснотурьи́нск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turya River (Ob's basin), north of Yekaterinburg.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Krasnoturyinsk · See more »

Krishnan Sasikiran

Krishnan Sasikiran (born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Krishnan Sasikiran · See more »

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur), or commonly known as KL, is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city in the country.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Kuala Lumpur · See more »

Lê Quang Liêm

Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster and the 2013 World Blitz Chess Champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Lê Quang Liêm · See more »

Levon Aronian

Levon Grigori Aronian (Լևոն Գրիգորի Արոնյան Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Levon Aronian · See more »

Li Chao (chess player)

Li Chao (born 21 April 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and Asian champion in 2013.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Li Chao (chess player) · See more »

Li Ruofan

Li Ruofan (born April 30, 1978) is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Li Ruofan · See more »

Lilit Mkrtchian

Lilit Mkrtchian (Լիլիթ Մկրտչյան; born 9 August 1982 in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and four-time Armenian women's chess champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Lilit Mkrtchian · See more »

List of chess grandmasters

This is a list of chess grandmasters.

New!!: Hou Yifan and List of chess grandmasters · See more »

List of chess openings

This is a list of chess openings, organized by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code.

New!!: Hou Yifan and List of chess openings · See more »

List of female chess players

This article lists female chess players that received official FIDE titles or are otherwise renowned.

New!!: Hou Yifan and List of female chess players · See more »

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Liverpool · See more »

Lviv

Lviv (Львів; Львов; Lwów; Lemberg; Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Lviv · See more »

Macau

Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Macau · See more »

Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Magnus Carlsen · See more »

Maia Chiburdanidze

Maia Chiburdanidze (მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Maia Chiburdanidze · See more »

Mariya Muzychuk

Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk (Марія Олегівна Музичук; born 21 September 1992) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from April 2015 to March 2016.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Mariya Muzychuk · See more »

Mérida, Spain

Mérida (Extremaduran: Méria) is the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, western central Spain.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Mérida, Spain · See more »

Michael Adams (chess player)

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Michael Adams (chess player) · See more »

Mona Khaled

Khaled Mona (born April 9 1994) is an Egyptian chess player, and a woman grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Mona Khaled · See more »

Moscow Open

The inaugural edition of the Moscow Open, an International-level WTA tennis event, will be held from 23 to 29 July 2018 at the National Tennis Center in Moscow, Russia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Moscow Open · See more »

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (19 May 1881 (conventional) – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk · See more »

Nadezhda Kosintseva

Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born 14 January 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Nadezhda Kosintseva · See more »

Nakhchivan (city)

Nakhchivan (Naxçıvan, Նախիջևան) is the capital of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan, located west of Baku.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Nakhchivan (city) · See more »

Nalchik

Nalchik (p; Kabardian: Налщӏэч //; Нальчик //) is the capital city of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, situated at an altitude of in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains; about northwest of Beslan in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Nalchik · See more »

Natalia Zhukova

Natalia Oleksandrivna Zhukova (Наталія Олександрівна Жукова; born 5 June 1979) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and two-time European women's champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Natalia Zhukova · See more »

New In Chess

New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.

New!!: Hou Yifan and New In Chess · See more »

Ni Hua

Ni Hua (born May 31, 1983 in Shanghai) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the national team captain.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ni Hua · See more »

Nigel Short

Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Nigel Short · See more »

Nimzo-Indian Defence

The Nimzo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Other move orders, such as 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4 Bb4, are also feasible.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Nimzo-Indian Defence · See more »

Ningbo

Ningbo, formerly written Ningpo, is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province in China. It comprises the urban districts of Ningbo proper, three satellite cities, and a number of rural counties including islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Its port, spread across several locations, is among the busiest in the world and the municipality possesses a separate state-planning status. As of the 2010 census, the entire administrated area had a population of 7.6 million, with 3.5 million in the six urban districts of Ningbo proper. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ningbo · See more »

Nino Khurtsidze

Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018) was a Georgian chess player who held the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Nino Khurtsidze · See more »

Norm (chess)

A norm in chess is a high level of performance in a chess tournament.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Norm (chess) · See more »

Norway Chess

Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Norway Chess · See more »

Olongapo

Olongapo, officially the, (Lungsod ng Olongapo; Siudad ti Olongapo; Syodad nin Olongapo; Lakanbalen ning Olongapo; Siyudad na Olongapo), or simply as Olongapo City, is a highly urbanized city in,. Located in the province of Zambales but governed independently from the province, it has a population of people according to the.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Olongapo · See more »

Paks

Paks is a town in Tolna county, central Hungary, on the banks of the Danube River.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Paks · See more »

Parimarjan Negi

Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Parimarjan Negi · See more »

Péter Ács

Péter Ács (born 10 May 1981 in Eger, Hungary) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster (GM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Péter Ács · See more »

Peking University

Peking University (abbreviated PKU or Beida; Chinese: 北京大学, pinyin: běi jīng dà xué) is a major Chinese research university located in Beijing and a member of the C9 League.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Peking University · See more »

Pentala Harikrishna

Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is a chess Grandmaster from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Pentala Harikrishna · See more »

Playoffs

The playoffs, play-offs, postseason and/or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Playoffs · See more »

Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas (historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Punta Arenas · See more »

Qin Kanying

Qin Kanying (born 2 February 1974) is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Qin Kanying · See more »

Queen's Indian Defense

The Queen's Indian Defense (QID) is a chess opening defined by the moves: The opening is a solid defense to the Queen's Pawn Game.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Queen's Indian Defense · See more »

Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after the Anglo-South African mining magnate and politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Rhodes Scholarship · See more »

Rostov

Rostov (p) is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, one of the oldest in the country and a tourist center of the Golden Ring.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Rostov · See more »

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament (or all-play-all tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Round-robin tournament · See more »

Ruan Lufei

Ruan Lufei (born October 2, 1987) is a Chinese chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Women's World Championship runner-up in 2010.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ruan Lufei · See more »

Russian Chess Championship

The Russian Chess Championship has taken various forms.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Russian Chess Championship · See more »

Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ruy Lopez · See more »

Saint-Lô

Saint-Lô is a commune in north-western France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Saint-Lô · See more »

Sergei Movsesian

Sergei Movsesian (Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born 3 November 1978 in Tbilisi) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster who played for the Czech Republic for most of his career.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Sergei Movsesian · See more »

Sergey Fedorchuk

Sergey Fedorchuk (translit; born 14 March 1981) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (2002).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Sergey Fedorchuk · See more »

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mamedyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov · See more »

Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Shandong · See more »

Shanwei

Shànwěi, or Swabue, (Ty-sami) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Shanwei · See more »

Shen Yang (chess player)

Shen Yang (born January 23, 1989 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese chess player who holds the titles of International master and Woman Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Shen Yang (chess player) · See more »

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a major city in Guangdong Province, China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Shenzhen · See more »

Sicilian Defence

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Sicilian Defence · See more »

Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation

In chess, the Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves: In the Dragon, Black fianchettoes their bishop on the h8–a1 diagonal, building a home for the king on g8 while aiming the bishop at the center and.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation · See more »

Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation

The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most respected and deeply studied of all chess openings.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation · See more »

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Single-elimination tournament · See more »

SportAccord World Mind Games

IMSA inaugurated the SportAccord World Mind Games December 2011 in Beijing.

New!!: Hou Yifan and SportAccord World Mind Games · See more »

Subic Bay Freeport Zone

Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ), which is known simply as Subic Bay, is the Philippines' first successful case of a military base converted through volunteerism into a tax- and duty-free zone similar to Hong Kong and Singapore, operated and managed by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority or SBMA.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Subic Bay Freeport Zone · See more »

Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format which features a set number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than in a round-robin tournament.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Swiss-system tournament · See more »

Taizhou, Jiangsu

Taizhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu province in eastern China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Taizhou, Jiangsu · See more »

Tan Zhongyi

Tan Zhongyi (born 29 May 1991 in Chongqing) is a Chinese chess grandmaster (GM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Tan Zhongyi · See more »

Tata Steel Chess Tournament

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Tata Steel Chess Tournament · See more »

Tianjin

Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Tianjin · See more »

Tiebreaker

In games and sports, a tiebreaker or tiebreak is used to determine a winner from among players or teams that are tied at the end of a contest, or a set of contests.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Tiebreaker · See more »

Tirana

Tirana (—; Tiranë; Tirona) is the capital and most populous city of Albania.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Tirana · See more »

Tong Yuanming

Tong Yuanming (born April 21, 1972) is a Chinese IM-titled chess player.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Tong Yuanming · See more »

Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Turin · See more »

Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Turkey · See more »

Valentina Gunina

Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989 in Murmansk) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Valentina Gunina · See more »

Vasilios Kotronias

Vasilios Kotronias (Βασίλειος Κοτρωνιάς; first name sometimes spelled Vassilios; born 25 August 1964 in Athens) is a Greek chess grandmaster and chess author.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Vasilios Kotronias · See more »

Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (p; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (until 1976) and Swiss (since 1994) chess grandmaster and writer.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Viktor Korchnoi · See more »

Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Viswanathan Anand · See more »

Wang Hao (chess player)

Wang Hao (born August 4, 1989) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Wang Hao (chess player) · See more »

Wang Yu (chess player)

Wang Yu (born 19 November 1982 in Tianjin) FIDE is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Wang Yu (chess player) · See more »

Wen Yang (chess player)

Wen Yang (born 7 July 1988 in Shandong) is a Chinese chess player.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Wen Yang (chess player) · See more »

White and Black in chess

In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black".

New!!: Hou Yifan and White and Black in chess · See more »

Wijk aan Zee

Wijk aan Zee is a small town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland of the Netherlands.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Wijk aan Zee · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship

The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the women's world champion in chess.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2006

The Women's World Chess Championship 2006 took place from March 10–27, 2006 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2006 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2010

The Women's World Chess Championship 2010 took place in Hatay, Turkey from December 2 through 24, 2010.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2010 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2011

The Women's World Chess Championship 2011 was the 35th of its kind.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2011 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2012

The Women's World Chess Championship 2012 was a knockout tournament, to decide the women's world champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2012 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2013

The Women's World Chess Championship 2013 was a chess match for the championship.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2013 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2015

The Women's World Chess Championship was held from 16 March to 7 April 2015 in Sochi, Russia.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2015 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2016

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.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2016 · See more »

Women's World Chess Championship 2017

The Women's World Chess Championship 2017 was a 64-player knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world chess champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Women's World Chess Championship 2017 · See more »

World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.

New!!: Hou Yifan and World Chess Championship · See more »

World Chess Championship 2018

The World Chess Championship 2018 is an upcoming chess match between the reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and challenger Fabiano Caruana to determine the World Chess Champion.

New!!: Hou Yifan and World Chess Championship 2018 · See more »

World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

New!!: Hou Yifan and World Junior Chess Championship · See more »

World Mind Sports Games

The World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) is a quadrennial multi-sport event created by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) as a "stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".

New!!: Hou Yifan and World Mind Sports Games · See more »

World Team Chess Championship

The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent.

New!!: Hou Yifan and World Team Chess Championship · See more »

World Youth Chess Championship

The World Youth Chess Championship is a chess competition for girls and boys under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18.

New!!: Hou Yifan and World Youth Chess Championship · See more »

Wuxi

Wuxi is a city in southern Jiangsu province, China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Wuxi · See more »

Xinghua, Jiangsu

Xinghua is a county-level city under the administration of Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Xinghua, Jiangsu · See more »

Xu Yuhua

Xu Yuhua (born 29 October 1976) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former Women's World Champion (2006–2008).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Xu Yuhua · See more »

Ye Jiangchuan

Ye Jiangchuan (born November 20, 1960 in Wuxi, Jiangsu) is a veteran Chinese chess player and has been one of China's leading players in modern history.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Ye Jiangchuan · See more »

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg (p), alternatively romanized Ekaterinburg, is the fourth-largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located on the Iset River east of the Ural Mountains, in the middle of the Eurasian continent, at the boundary between Asia and Europe.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Yekaterinburg · See more »

Yerevan

Yerevan (Երևան, sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Yerevan · See more »

Yu Shaoteng

Yu Shaoteng (Pinyin: Yú Shǎoténg; born March 26, 1979 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster, and is the personal trainer of chess prodigy Hou Yifan.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Yu Shaoteng · See more »

Zafra

Zafra is a town situated in the Province of Badajoz (Extremadura, Spain), and the capital of the comarca of Zafra - Río Bodión.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zafra · See more »

Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zürich · See more »

Zhang Jilin

Zhang Jilin (born June 24, 1986) is a Chinese chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zhang Jilin · See more »

Zhang Xiaowen (chess player)

Zhang Xiaowen (born 24 February 1989 in Shanghai) is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zhang Xiaowen (chess player) · See more »

Zhao Jun (chess player)

Zhao Jun (born December 12, 1986) is a Chinese chess player.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zhao Jun (chess player) · See more »

Zhao Xue

Zhao Xue (born 6 April 1985) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue · See more »

Zhou Jianchao

Zhou Jianchao (born June 11, 1988 in Shanghai) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zhou Jianchao · See more »

Zhu Chen

Zhu Chen (born March 16, 1976) is a Qatari chess Grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zhu Chen · See more »

Zoltán Almási

Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

New!!: Hou Yifan and Zoltán Almási · See more »

2007 Asian Indoor Games

The 2nd Asian Indoor Games were held in Macau, China from 26 October 2007 to 3 November 2007.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 2007 Asian Indoor Games · See more »

2010 Asian Games

The 2010 Asian Games, also known as the XVI Asian Games, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from 12 to 27 November 2010, although several events has commenced from 7 November 2010.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 2010 Asian Games · See more »

37th Chess Olympiad

The 37th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 37th Chess Olympiad · See more »

38th Chess Olympiad

The 38th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between 12–25 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 38th Chess Olympiad · See more »

40th Chess Olympiad

The 40th Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Istanbul, Turkey,, Chessdom.com.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 40th Chess Olympiad · See more »

41st Chess Olympiad

The 41st Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Tromsø, Norway, between 1–14 August 2014.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 41st Chess Olympiad · See more »

42nd Chess Olympiad

The 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an Open and Women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 1–14 September 2016.

New!!: Hou Yifan and 42nd Chess Olympiad · See more »

Redirects here:

H Yifan, H. Yifan, Ho Yifan, Hoo Yee Fan, Hou Y, Hou Yi Fan, Hou Yi-Fan, Hou Yi-fan, Hou Yifan (Chinese chess player), Hou, Yifan, Houyifan, Hu Yifan, Hóu Yìfán, Y Hou, Y. Hou, Yi Fan Hou, Yi-Fan Hou, Yi-fan Hou, Yifan, Yifan H, Yifan Hou, Yifan Hou(chess player), Yifan, Hou, Yifanhou, You Hifan, 侯逸凡.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Yifan

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »