Queen of Chess: 4-Time World Chess Champion Hou Yifan

Hou Yifan is a chess grandmaster, four-time Women’s World Chess Champion, and the second highest-rated female player of all time. She was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster (which she achieved at the age of 14), and the youngest ever to win the Women’s World Chess Championship (at age 16). In 2020, at the age of 26, Yifan became the youngest full professor in the history of Shenzhen University.

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