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Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player who, in at the age of 16, became the youngest person to win the women's world championship.!
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and four-time Women's World Chess Champion.
Hou Yifan
In this Chinese name, the family name is Hou.
Yifan Hou[3] (born 27 February 1994, in Xinghua, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China) is a female Chinesechessprodigy.
She was the Women's World Chess Champion 2010–2012. She was the youngest women ever to win the title, and the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.[2][4]
At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to take part in the Women's World Championship and the Chess Olympiad (Turin 2006).[5] In June 2007, she became China's youngest National Women's Champion ever.
In 2010, she became the youngest World Chess Champion in chess history (men's or women's) by winning the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 in Hatay, Turkey, at the age of 16. She then defended her title by defeating Indian Koneru Humpy in the Women's World Chess Championship 2011.
In the most recent (January 2012) FIDE rating list, Hou is ranked as the #1 girl player in the wo