Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) told TASS she is firmly determined to give a fight in the Grand Prix series to enter the Candidates Tournament next year and eventually challenge 16th World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the first unisex World Chess Championship ever. The task seems arduous, but the memory of the game she played with Magnus last month in Karlsruhe, gives her reason for confidence: “I had a great opportunity to win, but I missed the chance. However, a draw was also a good result for me, because I had lost the three previous games”. She said that competing with men on equal terms gives her more motivation to improve her play, and that’s the reason why she decided to jump the gender border.
Only time will tell if her challenger adventure will be lucky or not, but, if nothing else, it has given an impulse to contemplate women’s presence in the “For Men Only” chess field, such as the case of Indian Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika, who is playing the invitational élite TePe Sigeman & Co. Chess Tournament in Malmö, Sweden. |
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