World champion Hou Yifan is in Hawaii while former champion Anna Ushenina is eliminating for missing the second round as the competition Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, ...

FIVE MINUTES BEFORE the eighth round of the World Chess Grand Prix in Geneva, the room was silent. The competitors had taken their seats, 18 of the world's best chess players facing off across nine ...

Women’s World Chess Championship Match 2013 between the current World Champion Anna Ushenina of Ukraine and her challenger, Hou Yifan of China (former World Champion 2010-2012), is scheduled to start ...

Chinese woman chess grandmaster Hou Yifan, 23, a former chess prodigy and three-time Women’s World Champion, emerged victorious in the 50th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland last week. She was the ...

Here's an abridged list of phrases you might not expect to be spoken in anguish by a chess play-by-play announcer: "What's going on? What the hell is going on? What. Is. Going. On??" "Has she gone ...

Hou Yifan from China won the Women’s World Chess Championship for the second time in the last three years. The Chinese prodigy has arguably been the best women player in the history of the game and is ...

At the age of 17, Hou Yifan holds the prestigious title of grandmaster women's world chess champion. During her first visit to India for the Chess tournament to be held in Delhi this week we caught up ...

The 19-year-old Chinese GM Hou Yifan regained the Women’s World Chess Championship title from Anna Ushenina, 29, of Ukraine in possibly the most one-sided match in the history of the competition at ...