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Young paths to world titles

Hou Yifan: a world title at sixteen

The 2010 Women’s World Championship and a chess path open to girls

≈ 1 min readBy Rooklume

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Chinese player Hou Yifan became a grandmaster in 2008. In 2010 she won the Women’s World Championship in Hatay, Türkiye, aged sixteen. These milestones are recorded in the FIDE Museum biography.

The grandmaster title and the world championship title are different achievements. This story also specifies that the event was the Women’s World Championship. Stories of girls and boys belong alongside one another in our library.

Pause and think

Question: which came first — Hou Yifan’s grandmaster title or her first Women’s World Championship victory? Hint: compare 2008 and 2010.

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