For one who regards that “competing with top males is talent and opportunity”, her preferential participation in not for women only tournaments is both a challenge and a display of self-confidence. Reasons are not lacking: her career was both brilliant and precocious. She gave much, and she can give much more if she wants to continue devoting her innate talent to a game that, as it is to this day, designates her as one of the lines of a magic staff, and one in which she shares a sublime music with Vera Frantsevna Menchik, Nona Terentevna Gaprindashvili, Maia Grigorievna Chiburdanidze and Judit Polgár, as 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) has already become, and by far, one of the five best female players in the history of the noble game. [Read more]. |
A star in the database: 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán). Photo: ChessBase.com.
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