Hou Yifan plays the Fool's mate. Resigns after move 5 in 2017 Gibraltar Masters.

No doubt her prior complaint would have been allayed, had the tournament organisers been in a position to show her that her pairings were not contrived; the clear implication is that they could not.

I distrust any assertion starting with "No doubt". If the pairings are supposed to be determined by a computer algorithm, then it should be pretty easy to falsify them... if they are indeed contrived. The round-by-round results are not secret, after all.

Down a pawn, king is well-centralised, opponent has queen out in the opening. Looks like a solid gambit, what's the matter?

Please sign this petition if you would like to see Hou Yifan and Nazi Paikidze commentate on the upcoming Womens' WCC:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/tournaments/petition-invite-hou-yifan-and-nazi-paikidze-to-commentate-on-womens-wcc

In the USCF, the TD is responsible for making sure the pairings make sense and follow pairing rules. Can't imagine FIDE doesn't have a similar requirement for Arbiters.

They can give a woman's prize, an under 20 prize etc, if they so choose. The fact remains that it ceases to be an "open" tourament, if gender is a factor in the pairings. Even if the organisers did not hand pick Hou's daily opponent, at the very least they tinkered with the algorithm for the pairings, perhaps to help produce a clear "woman's winner". This was Ju Wenjun, fair and square, which Hou no doubt fully accepts. Hou's grievance is however fully justified and if not for her class and dignity, she could have spoken out in much stronger terms

Wait, I think now everything makes sense.

Hou Yifan is not mad that he got paired with mostly women but that all women got mostly paired with women, as if organizers were trying to make a women category instead of an Open.

So yes, chess.com does kill brain cells.

If that's the case, then I don't blame her for getting frustrated... the tournament was advertised as an Open, and it's well known (even to the Organizers!) that she refuses to play in segregated events.

Are you talking about this?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/support-my-campaign-for-chess-com-staff-member

Im slow OK, I balme it on chess.com

It looked to me like stupid whining because she didnt swipe the competition, but she wasnt crying about weak opponents, just about women getting paired with women.

I woke up and saw that freaking video and was like "Oh my gosh, freaking Chinese guys, dont they have enough with sending humanity to hell, now they are also trying to boycott tournaments".

Maybe I should wake up and then start thinking 

maybe she should consider a sex change as the ultimate form of protest

I understand TDs making us carry clocks, most of them do not have funds and they are doing enough by organizing the tournament and charging little to nothing.

I dont understand freaking government not helping me and other players and not organizing tournaments when I dont have to bring all my stuff.

Im sure if I was in Russia I would not join the Piooner palace, but Im sure I would be able to join advanced chess classes for free.

You know wut, fk it Im gonna go on a trip to Cuba, get better at chess and then come back to this Mexico thing.

Last big tournament I were was full of Cuban GMs and IMs sent by the government.

We only had a Mexican GM, lol .

I regret being a sissy and not challenging them to some blitz lol.

If I ever dissapear you can be sure Im learning chess on Cuba.

The one person in the world who really hates this whole situation is probably Nakamura. Now nobody cares that he won the tournament.

Anton was destroying him badly in the opening.