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Vera Menchik, A Biography

12/4/2017 – A biography on the first Women's World Champion Vera Menchik offers the chance to know more about the chess world of nearly 100 years ago. Women in chess have a rich history, and this book paints a great historical portrait, showing us beautiful games played by Miss Menchik against top chess players of her day. Davide Nastasio has the review. | Photo: Menchik (centre) at a simul at the Bury and West Suffolk Chess Club in 1936 | suffolkchess.org.uk

Hou Yifan: was not as easy as people might think

9/24/2013 – At the age of 12 this extraordinary Chinese chess talent became the youngest player ever to participate in a FIDE Women's World Championship. At 16 she actually won the title, defended it once and then lost it in a knockout tournament, regaining it again last week. "It’s time to look for new things in chess, in studies, in other parts of life," the 19-year-old says in this indepth interview.

Women's World Chess Championship under way

9/11/2013 – The first game in the ten-game match between reigning champion Anna Ushenina and challenger Hou Yifan started on Tuesday at 3 p.m. local time (Hou Yifan has played a classical Nimzo-Indian). It was preceeded by the opening ceremony in the lavish five-star Chunlan Hotel, the venue, in Taizhou, China. The match is being broadcast live on Playchess. Latest: Hou Yifan won the first game with black.

Women's World Championship begins on Tuesday

9/8/2013 – GM Anna Ushenina of Ukraine, 28, is the incumbent, having won the title in the FIDE knockout in 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Challenger Hou Yifan of China, 19, was the youngest female ever to gain the GM title, and at 16 the youngest human being to win a world chess championship title. The two face off in Taizhou, China, in a ten-game match. We have the schedule and all the details.
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