I think yifan more learn opening

Yolo

Now nobody is able to stop the champion from China any more.

nice game

Hou wins again, it is Le Quang Liem.

Oh yeah, so good

Hou Yifan should play more super GMs. She's having a great tournament with the only loss coming from a better position against a 2700 player. She could easily be 2700+ in a few years.

@WGM Natalia - Thanks for the insight!  Looking over the game I had a feeling that Judit was maybe overpressing but, of course, I'm usually wrong about what GMs are really doing.  

恭喜侯逸凡！

congrats to Hou Yifan! I would like to see them square off in a match

Looks like pure psychology. Hou chose a positional opening with a minimum advantage. Polgar started pushing rather carelessly and quickly ended up two pawns down. I'd say she doesn't have enough experience playing women: games between women are often more nerve-racking and energy-consuming than mixed ones.

f4 winning the bishop to pin.

On move 24. Nxe6 could polgar not have played Kxe6 winning an exchange.

Hou has shown Judit what it means to be the Women World Chess Champion. I hope to see a matchup between these chess queens, for in life there can only be one queen. 

Question for the stronger players who are familiar with the Taimanov - Do you think Judit fell into some prep, or did she just misplay something known to theory?  I don't know enough about the opening to tell the difference.  

My suspicion would be that given the publicity opportunity, Hou's people might have had some major home cooking up their sleeve.  That does not, however, take anything away from Hou, who still had to go play the game.

Anybody know?  (FWIW Houdini thinks Polgar's 20 ...d4 ?! was the beginning of her problems)

Rorschach1985, extremely doubtful. Elubas, yes, Magnus was stronger. Sashura, are you serious? Hou wins one game against a stronger opponent and people start thinking she's the world's best player? If she was male people would be singing a different tune. Sure she's a great player and an amazing talent, but people need some objectivity, I agree Tedceldor and  Sunandthreestars, a match would be a better yardstick, although Kramnik beat Kasparov and Kasparov was considerably better than Krammnik, so time will tell.

Yi Fan ........ she was really a very talented young woman in chess....... go Yi Fan go.....

This has the makin's of grudge match ...

Mickey Adams has the sole lead after the seventh round, having beaten David Howell in over 100 moves (he played on in a technically drawn position for aaaages a pawn up with opposite coloured bishops, with Howell playing on increments before he finally blundered a piece and the game).

Here's the table with everyone on 5.5 points or higher (columns are Nationality, Elo rating, tournament points and performance rating):