Johannes Meijer

Johannes Meijer lives with his wife in sunny Cochabamba, Bolivia. Now that he is retired he writes articles about chess and mathematics, e.g., Famous numbers on a chessboard (2010) and The Golden Triangle (2010), and from time to time he still plays chess. In 2014 he won the price for the best veteran (Millor Veterà) during the 32e Open International d’Andorra.

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What were the odds of Hou Yifan’s pairings in 2017?

2/2/2018 – The Gibraltar Masters wrapped up Thursday, with Levon Aronian in first place. This year round ten passed without incident, in contrast to 2017 when, on February 2nd, the story of the day was a rare scandal involving women's World Champion Hou Yifan deliberately losing a game in protest of the high number of women she was paired against. She was further confounded when a similarly unlikely string of pairings happened in October at the Isle of Man Open. Johannes Meijer looks at the odds in detail. Hou did not return to Gibralter in 2018, but instead competed in the Tata Steel Chess Masters. | Photo: Alina l'Ami

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