Wednesday, February 20, 2019

元宵节 (Lantern Festival)

Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion and Rhodes Scholar 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) apparently spent yesterday in company with her fellow scholars celebrating the 元宵节 (Lantern Festival) at Rhodes House. On next March 2 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), indisputably the world’s No. 1 woman player, will take the top board for the Oxford University team in the 137th Varsity Chess Match against Cambridge at London’s Royal Automobile Club (RAC), which is held to be the world’s longest running chess fixture, dating back to the first Varsity Chess Match in 1873. Photo: Rhodes Trust (@rhodes_trust).

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