Hou Yifan
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Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is the second-highest-rated female player of all time. A chess prodigy, she was
Hou in 2016
Hou Yifan at the 2005 World Team Chess Championship, Beersheva, Israel
Hou Yifan at the 2008 World Junior Chess Championship, Gaziantep, Turkey where she gained a GM norm
Grand Prix Cup award ceremony, Sharjah, UAE
Judit Polgár
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Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to be ranked in the world top 10, the only woman to achieve a rat
Hou Yifan
…2012, 2015 and 2017). Hou was the third woman ever to be rated among the world's top 100 players (2014–16 and 2017–22), after Maia Chiburdanidze and Judit Polgár. After Polgár's retirement, she was widely regarded as the strongest active female player, maintaining a substantial rating lead over her peers. She…
Polgár in 2013 (Warsaw)
Judit, Zsuzsa, Zsófia and László Polgár, 1989
Judit (left) with sister Sofia at Thessaloniki, 1988
In 1993, Polgár defeated former world champion Boris Spassky (pictured here in 1984) in an exhibition match.