TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
watcha wrote:
Rapport is about to become Hungary's first player ahead of Leko:
Leko is simply incredible. His technique is simply on a whole other level.
Still. Rapport is climbing up to him:
Hou Yifan about to become strongest female player in the world
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they have a really powerful curling team too
Hou Yifan is a strong GM no doubt, but its way too early to compare her to Judit Polgar.
Polgar never wanted to play in that "handicapped" version that is female chess, she wanted to prove that women can play chess just like men and achieved incredible successes, such as getting into top 10 and having beaten every big name in chess of her generation at least once, including Kasparov.
She took her rating points from the very best, and Hou Yifan still has a long way to go for that.
That being said Hou Yifan looks like an energetic young woman who loves chess and I wish her all the best for her future career.
i went to a chinese take out restaurant today for lunch.
I order some general tso's chicken. I only eat it in moderation because believe it or not general tso's chicken is tripled fried chicken and it is not really good for you. they first take chicken, marinate it, and bread it and deep fry it. then when an order comes, they reheat the chicken by flash frying it again in a deep fryer. then they saute it again in a wok when making the dish.
i don't understand how chinese people can eat this stuff everyday and yet they stay so slim and in shape. If I ate the food in chinese restaurants (i.e. kung pow chicken, egg foo young, general tso's chicken, sesame chicken, shrimp yoo foo pow, sweet & sour beef, etc.) everyday, i would gain a lot of weight.
please tell me what is hou yifan's secret?
Yifan Hou, I hope she the top woman player and perhaps the top ten in the men level in the near future. I always enjoy playing over her games.
Oct 10, 2014
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I like the chinese female swimming team they got bodies to die for narrow waists and mighty shoulders and uh who was it again the champion of the world ah yeah I remember it was wasisname ho yifan oh yeah good luck hope you win
Yah they have really nice round behinds (the divers).
is Hou Yifan going to be stronger than Judit Polgar?
greenfreeze wrote:
is Hou Yifan going to be stronger than Judit Polgar?
She still has a way to go for that, but if she can break into the worlds top 10 one day then she has a chance to do so.
Forgive me, but I also follow another about to in this thread, namely Rapport becoming number one Hungarian player for the first time.
Today it happened.
The king is dead, long live the king.
Sadly this has come about by Leko dropping like a stone and not Rapport rising like a phoenix ( like a GM Phoenix :) ). So Hungary has now 3 super GMs, but this is not much fun: all are in the very bottom of the list.
Well... they're ranked 32 and 33 in the world. Ain't that bad.
This is how the top list should look like, 2 Hungarians in the top 10, Portisch and Ribli. 32-33 ... give me a break.
And they are among the top 10 in the company of what names, Karpov, Tal, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Spassky!
Dec 22, 2014
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premio53 wrote:
I have seen women down through the years who have had to leave work and even had an ambulance called in one situation because she was cramping so bad during that time of the month.
Can a woman who is experiencing bloating and cramps concentrate during a game of chess as well as at any other time? Do women like Judit Polgar or Yifan Hou have to pick tournaments when they know they won't have to deal with that situation? If a woman ever did qualify to play for the World Championship would special consideration have to be given for such an event?
OK, so this was posed four months ago before the necro, but I'm going to address it anyway because it's probably a good educational opportunity: Menstruation is different for everyone, but it's pretty rare for women to be actually wrecked by the whole thing......think of it like going to work with a cold - OK, it's unpleasant, and a lot of people want to treat the symptoms (painkillers), but the vast majority of ladies are able to kick ass and take names on the rag. It's really weird that every time a woman is about to enter a 'male' space someone feels the necessity to ask "Can she handle it AND have her period!?" The answer is YES! Menstruation is a manageable condition......roughly 25% of women between 14 and 55 are doing it all the time and living productive lives...jeez
A List of questions that haven't been posed: "Can a woman cook on her period? What about cleaning? Is she psychologically stable enough to care for children - those things are fragile!" But people thought it was a serious question whether Hillary Clinton might nuke Russia because of a few cramps....just saying....sexism, folks. It's kind of like asking "Will Kramnik get an erection during the game and be unable to concentrate!?"
ANYWAY: Hou is a fantastic player - I prefer looking through the games of Anna Muzychuk, but Hou is quite simply stronger, and, with Judit effectively out of competitive chess, it's high time we crowned a new queen. So long live Yifran Hou - strongest active female chess player in the world.
laurie66 wrote:
She,s good no doubt about it kick my ass any day but why have a womens world champion ? If chess is a game of the mind no obvious advantage exists if you are a man unless of coarse chess is,nt popular with women so the best minds of the feminine gender are'nt drawn to the chessboard ,nothing macho about it to single it out as a male dominated sport or just maybe when it comes down to sheer brilliance and innovation well, dare I say the Women just dont cut it
Yet another attempt, this time somewhat more subtle, at least initially, to re-ignite the absurdly over exposed argument over gender in chess.
AlisonHart wrote:
premio53 wrote:
I have seen women down through the years who have had to leave work and even had an ambulance called in one situation because she was cramping so bad during that time of the month.
Can a woman who is experiencing bloating and cramps concentrate during a game of chess as well as at any other time? Do women like Judit Polgar or Yifan Hou have to pick tournaments when they know they won't have to deal with that situation? If a woman ever did qualify to play for the World Championship would special consideration have to be given for such an event?
OK, so this was posed four months ago before the necro, but I'm going to address it anyway because it's probably a good educational opportunity: Menstruation is different for everyone, but it's pretty rare for women to be actually wrecked by the whole thing......think of it like going to work with a cold - OK, it's unpleasant, and a lot of people want to treat the symptoms (painkillers), but the vast majority of ladies are able to kick ass and take names on the rag. It's really weird that every time a woman is about to enter a 'male' space someone feels the necessity to ask "Can she handle it AND have her period!?" The answer is YES! Menstruation is a manageable condition......roughly 25% of women between 14 and 55 are doing it all the time and living productive lives...jeez
A List of questions that haven't been posed: "Can a woman cook on her period? What about cleaning? Is she psychologically stable enough to care for children - those things are fragile!" But people thought it was a serious question whether Hillary Clinton might nuke Russia because of a few cramps....just saying....sexism, folks. It's kind of like asking "Will Kramnik get an erection during the game and be unable to concentrate!?"
I was going to post something along these lines, but you put it much better than I probably would have.
why are hungarians so hungary for chess?
They have twisted minds.
Born 27 February 1994. She is the Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest ever to win the title, as well as the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.
At age 13, June 2007, she became China's youngest National Women's Champion ever.
In 2010, she became the youngest Women's World Chess Champion in history by winning the Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey at age 16.
She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004 at age 10. Woman Grandmaster in January 2007 at age 13, and Grandmaster, the highest official title awarded by the FIDE, in August 2008 at age 14.
Judith Polgar was Grandmaster at age 15, Fischer at age 15, Kasparov at age 17 and so on.
This means that Yifan does have the potential to become the strongest female player ever.
Does anyone knows at what age Judit Polgar became women chess world champion? I do.
Give this you 20 year old not a break but an opportunity to become the best ever and I do know that she has potential can she make it happen we will all see.
my point is that i don't think anybody cares in the world
like nobody cares if some guy becomes the scrabble rated 1400 player.
the only person who cares would be Hou and maybe some other chess players.
Doctor Who and K9 played chess but they didn't even remember Hou and this even happened in the future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSoC1VUdavE
the reason why nobody cares:
http://inoveryourhead.net/no-one-cares-if-you-succeed-or-fail-why-i-walked-500-miles-barefoot/
Hou cares at least in part because that's how she makes money. Her profession requires her to perform consistently at a high level in tournaments where she gets paid. So it's different from the guy in the article, who didn't do what he did because of economic reasons.
but i thought hou is from china. isn't the china a communist country like the former ussr? if so, would she get a stipend fomr the government to cover living expenses?
China has a communist style one party corrupted government which has total power, but the economic system is a cruel form of capitalism.
They call this "Socialism with 'Chinese charactoristics'".
P.S I have lived in China for almost three years.