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🇨🇳GM Hou Yifan is the first player to win two WSCC titles.
After defeating 🇮🇳 GM Harika Dronavalli in the🙅♀️ Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023.
Final 15-11, the Chinese grandmaster is a two-time champion.
"Ever since her first victory, she never relinquished the lead," said commentator GM Daniel Naroditsky after the match.
Critical to her success was incisive precision when converting advantages as well as her resilience to save several lost positions.
Both times Hou won the WSCC, in 2021 and 2023, she faced Harika in the Final. Two years ago, she won her first title with a 15-13 score, and SmarterChess predicted another narrow match victory by just one point.,♟️
🇨🇳 Her score this year went above and beyond 2021 and the pre-match predictions, and her powerful start in the first segment paved the way for a commanding and impenetrable lead.
About Hou Yufin🇨🇳:-
At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became the youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004, Woman Grandmaster in January 2007, and Grandmaster in August 2008. In 2010, she won the 2010 Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey at age 16. She won the next three championships in which the title was decided by a match (in 2011, 2013 and 2016, with a total of ten wins to zero losses and fourteen draws against three different opponents), but was either eliminated early or she declined to participate in the championships in which the title was decided by a knockout tournament (in 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. She is widely regarded as the best active female chess player, "leaps and bounds" ahead of her competitors.
As of September 2023, she has been the No. 1 ranked woman in the world since September 2015 and is 68 points ahead of the No. 2 ranked Ju Wenjun.
She was named in the BBC's 100 Women programme in 2017.
She has been semi-retired since 2018, and became a professor at Shenzhen University in 2020, at the age of 26.
About Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳:-
(RUNNER UP)
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.
In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. Vladimir Kramnik, Judit Polgar and Viswanathan Anand are her chess inspirations.
In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports.
After defeating 🇮🇳 GM Harika Dronavalli in the🙅♀️ Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023.
Final 15-11, the Chinese grandmaster is a two-time champion.
"Ever since her first victory, she never relinquished the lead," said commentator GM Daniel Naroditsky after the match.
Critical to her success was incisive precision when converting advantages as well as her resilience to save several lost positions.
Both times Hou won the WSCC, in 2021 and 2023, she faced Harika in the Final. Two years ago, she won her first title with a 15-13 score, and SmarterChess predicted another narrow match victory by just one point.,♟️
🇨🇳 Her score this year went above and beyond 2021 and the pre-match predictions, and her powerful start in the first segment paved the way for a commanding and impenetrable lead.
About Hou Yufin🇨🇳:-
At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became the youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004, Woman Grandmaster in January 2007, and Grandmaster in August 2008. In 2010, she won the 2010 Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey at age 16. She won the next three championships in which the title was decided by a match (in 2011, 2013 and 2016, with a total of ten wins to zero losses and fourteen draws against three different opponents), but was either eliminated early or she declined to participate in the championships in which the title was decided by a knockout tournament (in 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. She is widely regarded as the best active female chess player, "leaps and bounds" ahead of her competitors.
As of September 2023, she has been the No. 1 ranked woman in the world since September 2015 and is 68 points ahead of the No. 2 ranked Ju Wenjun.
She was named in the BBC's 100 Women programme in 2017.
She has been semi-retired since 2018, and became a professor at Shenzhen University in 2020, at the age of 26.
About Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳:-
(RUNNER UP)
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.
In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. Vladimir Kramnik, Judit Polgar and Viswanathan Anand are her chess inspirations.
In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports.
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