The Dating Game

The 2019 深圳 (Shēnzhèn) 罗湖 (Luōhú) All-Star Chess Tournament has started today at the Sunshine Hotel in 深圳 (Shēnzhèn), China with a mixed doubles competition involving a number of stars such as 倪华 (Ní Huá), Nigel David Short, Eugene Torre, 余泱漪 (Yú Yāngyī), 韦奕 (Wéi Yì), seven-time Chinese Women’s Chess Champion 刘适兰 (Liú Shìlán), 6th Women’s World Chess Champion Maia Grigorievna Chiburdanidze, 7th Women’s World Chess Champion 谢军 (Xiè Jūn), 9th Women’s World Chess Champion 诸宸 (Zhū Chén), 14th Women’s World Chess Champion Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina, and, last but not least, four-time Women’s World Chess Champion and Rhodes Scholar 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), who, as usual, took on the mission of showing herself up as a sartorial incarnation of Caïssa. In the end she and her mate 余泱漪 (Yú Yāngyī) triumphed also in the “chess dating game”, just as to demonstrate that a goddess can do what a mere human cannot do. Photos: 张晓露 (Zhāng Xiǎolù).