Hou Yifan (born February 27, 1994, in Xinghua, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China) is Chinese chess player, a former Women’s World Champion. Current rating: 2609 Fide Chess Profile: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=8602980Hou Yifan started playing chess regularly at the age of 6, but was...
Anna Ushenina, the defending Women’s World Champion
Anna Ushenina (born 30 August 1985) is a Ukrainian chess player and the Women’s World Chess Champion since November 2012. Current rating: 2500 FIDE chess profile: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=14110911 Ushenina lives in Kharkiv (Ukraine), where she was born. Determined that young...
President of Ukraine awards Order of Princess Olga to Ushenina
President of Ukraine awards Order of Princess Olga to world chess champion Anna Ushenina Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych congratulated Anna Ushenina on winning the Women’s World Chess Championship 2012 and awarded her with the Order of Princess Olga. “It...
2013 – Year of Elizaveta Bykova
2013 – Year of Elizaveta Bykova Soviet Women Grandmaster (1976), International Master (1953) and the third Women World Champion. Honored Sport Master, economist and journalist. At the age of 12 Bykova moved to Moscow with her older brother. Two...
Ushenina: “I dream of playing against Judit Polgar”
“I dream of playing against Judit Polgar” Anna Ushenina of coaches, defeats, and prize money By Olena SOKOLYNSKA, Kharkiv I have spoken with chess players before. But this was the first time I had interviewed an international grandmaster of such a...
Ushenina welcomed as hero in Ukraine
For the first time in the chess history of the independent Ukraine a chess player got the title of the World Women Chess Champion. Anna Ushenina, 27-years old from Kharkiv, won in the final against former world champion Antoaneta...