Friday, June 24, 2016

Striving with Grace

http://sports.163.com/16/0624/22/BQC2VDS200051CAQ.html
In view of the 42nd Chess Olympiad scheduled for 1 – 14 September 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the chief coach of the Chinese National Chess Teams 叶江川 (Yè Jiāngchuān) originally selected 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén), 余泱漪 (Yú Yāngyī), 韦奕 (Wéi Yì), 李超 (Lǐ Chāo), and 王玥 (Wáng Yuè) for the men’s team, and 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), 居文君 (Jū Wénjūn), 赵雪 (Zhào Xuě), 郭琦 (Guō Qí), and 谭中怡 (Tán Zhōngyí) for the women’s team.
However, 13th Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), more than ever in open dissent against the World Chess Federation’s aprioristic refusal to even consider her proposal of equating men’s and women’s World Chess Championship systems, would have decided not to play the Olympiad, hopefully looking forward to the decisions of the next FIDE Congress, which should be held in Baku from 4 to 14 September. 雷挺婕 (Léi Tǐngjié) will eventually replace her.

Official dinner hosted by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation President Galimzhan Yessenov in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Saturday, June 18, 2016. From left: Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov, 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), 王茜 (Wáng Qiàn) – 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán)’s mother and manager – and Boris Abramovich Gelfand. Photo: Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov.

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