As an IM, Nepomniacht is already around 2600 and way over 2600 after Corus!! Hou Yifan, as a WFM, her rating is already 2509!! You can expect to hear from both of them for years to come!
IM Nepomniacht – WFM Hou Yifan [A30]
Corus Round 9 – Group C, 23.01.2007
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3 e5 5.Bg2 g6 6.d3 Bg7 7.Bg5 d6 8.0-0 0-0 9.Rb1 Be6 10.a3 a5 11.Ne1 Rb8 12.Nc2 Qd7 13.b4 b6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.Qd2 axb4 16.axb4 Ne7 17.Ne3 Bg7 18.Ned5 Bxd5 19.Nxd5 Nxd5 20.Bxd5 b5 21.bxc5 dxc5 22.Qa5 bxc4 23.dxc4 Qe7 24.Rb5 Rxb5 25.cxb5 Qd8 26.Qa2 Bf6 27.Qc4 Qd6 28.Ra1 Bd8 29.Ra7 Bc7 30.Qe4 Re8 31.Bc4 Re7 32.Qa8+ Kg7 33.Qc8 Bd8 34.Ra8 Rd7 35.Bd3 Qe7 36.Qc6 Rc7 37.Qd5 Rd7 38.Qf3 Bb6 39.Bc4 Rd4 40.Qb3 Qd7 41.Ra1 Rd2 42.Rc1 Rd6 43.Kg2 Qb7+ 44.Kg1 Qd7 45.e3 Rd2 46.Qc3 Rd1+ 47.Rxd1 Qxd1+ 48.Kg2 Qd6 49.f4 Bc7 50.Kf2 Qf6 51.Qd2 exf4 52.gxf4 g5 53.Kf3 gxf4 54.exf4 Qf5 55.Qg2+ Qg6 56.Qb2+ Kg8 57.Qf2 Game drawn 1/2-1/2
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She is only 12 years old!!
Elo inflation is talked about as a fact, but then again the chess level of the elite is also on the raise. A kind of evolution (if such a Darwin’ian word is proper in a US site). A battle of 2 phenoms indeed.
2509 Fide is a very high rating for a WFM(it use to be from 2050 to 2150).
I won my two games(2-0) this night against an egyptian WIM in ICC…but i cannot imagine myself winning against Hou Yifan,and her title is less important 🙂
Well,they are the future!
2509?? How many GM norms has Hou Yifan made? Is there a chance she’ll break the record for youngest GM? That would be extra rare, to have youngest GM be female.
There are no chances for her to become the yungest GM.