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侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán): From “Chess Queen” to “Workplace Newbie” CRI/CIBN, October 15, 2021 Society & Culture Listen on Apple Podcast 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) learned to play chess at 5. At 14, she was the youngest woman to ever be awarded the title of Grandmaster. At 16, she won the Women’s World Chess Championship for the first time, thus becoming the youngest Chess Queen ever. Subsequently she won the world title three more times: in 2011, 2013 and 2016, to become the youngest woman in chess history to be crowned four times. In July 2020 she found a new identity as she was appointed as the youngest full Professor ever at the School of Physical Education, Normal College (Faculty of Education), 深圳大学 (Shēnzhèn University). At present she is still world’s woman No. 1.