Photo by Frits Agterdenbos
Congratulations to WGM Yifan Hou of China. In spite of losing her last round game, WGM Yifan Hou earned a GM norm with an even score at Aeroflot top section. Her performance was 2605 in 9 games. Here are her round by round results:
1 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2598 ½
2 GM Laznicka, Viktor CZE 2595 1
3 GM Grachev, Boris RUS 2601 0
4 GM Riazantsev, Alexander RUS 2628 ½
5 GM Azarov, Sergei BLR 2594 ½
6 GM Iordachescu, Viorel MDA 2586 1
7 GM Grigoriants, Sergey RUS 2583 ½
8 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS 2634 ½
9 GM Volkov, Sergey RUS 2623 0
http://www.aeroflotchess.com/results/a1/SMWSite/index.html
IM Sebag of France lost her last round game and fell short of a GM norm. She ended up performing at 2551.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Congratulations Yifan!
For her age, she is fantastic
Hi. Does anyone know if Hou has any other norms. The title woman grandmaster does not suit her strength as she is clearly IM to GM strength.
Chinese Female chess player normally don’t apply IM title because their association doesn’t think that title is that important. Hou should have got IM title already when she just turned 13. This is her first GM norm although she missed only 2 points(2598)last month in Corus and 4 points(2596) in Olympic Team Game in 2006. As far as I know, Zhao Xue already got 3 GM norms but not sure why China chess association hasn’t applied it for her.
Wow, good for her! That’s VERY impressive.
It seems like half of the world’s elite female chess players come from China.
China is making a statement.
GeneM
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Dumb question…what is she doing with the rifle? What’s she shooting at? Ex boyfriend?
Gun don’t kill people. Stupid people kill people.
Pass it on.