Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time. A chess prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
Hou in 2016
Hou Yifan, when she was 11, 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
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its inception in 1927, unlike the absolute World Chess Championship, which only came under FIDE's control in 1948.
Current Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun from China
1981 Women's World Championship, Maia Chiburdanidze vs. Nana Alexandria
Women's World Chess Championship, Tirana 2011