The third season of the Global Chess League begins in Mumbai on December 14, with a host of world-class players, including ...

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 ...

Madrid, Aug 10 (EFE).Madrid, Aug 10 (EFE). — Women’s World Chess Champion, Chinese Hou Yifan, visited Atletico Madrid during one of the training sessions this week in Majadahonda, the club reported on ...

A mouse slip saw World no. 1 Hou Yifan lost to Kateryna Lagno in the final of the third Grand Prix leg of the women's online speed chess tournament on Sunday evening. Both Yifan and Lagno fought tooth ...

Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna came back strongly to defeat the former three-time Women's World Champion Hou Yifan of China in an enthralling sixth-round encounter at the 50th Biel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hou Yifan makes announcement to her more than 4,000,000 social media followers that chess and investing are worth mastering and reinforce each other. Chinese Women's Chess World Champion Hou Yifan has ...

As a young girl, Yifan Hou was enchanted by the shapes of chess pieces. This initial intrigue coupled with a natural flair for the game set her on track to become the youngest woman to earn the ...