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| Jan-31-12 | | s4life: <Whitehat1963: But I agree with you, <s4life>, she probably is underrated at the moment. According to Chessbase, her performance rating is currently 2823!> It's actually 2859. She's probably underrated is an understatement. She's been practicing really hard with the best male chinese GMs throughout last year. I think she's starting to show the results of that preparation. |
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| Jan-31-12 | | Blunderdome: Yeah I agree that one game isn't enough to form a judgment about the relative of two players, I just had no idea why you cited a list of simul games. |
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| Jan-31-12 | | Blunderdome: relative strength, that should say. |
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Feb-01-12
 | | Whitehat1963: Because, <Blunderdome>, how else am I going to find many, many examples of chess champions losing one-game encounters they have no business losing? No, I'm no idiot. I realize the time factor serves an enormous equalizing role in simultaneous exhibitions, and that it's not fair to compare Joe the Plumber's and Bobby Fischer's relative playing strength when Fischer is in fact playing blitz and Joe is playing like his life depends upon the outcome. But it serves my purpose. The outcome of one-game encounters is meaningless. Too many factors come in to play. Was someone sick? Did someone walk into a Rybka-prepared trap? Did someone blunder away a win? To say nothing about simple, random luck. Yifan Hou has a long, long way to go before we can compare her to Judit Polgar, despite the result of this one game. |
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Feb-01-12
 | | acirce: Well, I looked through the comments to this game, and found ONE post that I thought gravely overstated the significance of the result of this one game. Who cares? |
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| Feb-01-12 | | arunjangity3: Why is this game any more historical than Judit Polgar vs Koneru, 2012, which came first? |
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Feb-01-12
 | | JointheArmy: <arunjangity3> Because Koneru couldn't muster anything more than a draw and Polgar got blew off the board by Hou? Forget best women's player, Hou could be giving Magnus a run for his money in a few years time. |
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Feb-01-12
 | | haydn20: 10...Qb6 from Opening Ex seems more "in the spirit" with some Q-side action. 15...g5 is aggressive, as always: Taimonov got draws with 15...Rd8 and 15...e5. I'd bet that Polgar didn't see 21. e5+. Finally, after 23...f6 24. f4 Black is uncomfortable, but 23...h6? seems to be losing (and Hou never lets up). Seems to me Hou could be a threat against the men right now, and has huge upside. |
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| Feb-02-12 | | Jaburu: 32.Be4!!! is the stratagem of Makogonov. On this subject, that makes to live the great Vladimir Makogonov, see "Secrets of Chess Intuition", Gambit Publications, page 103. |
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Feb-03-12
 | | Naniwazu: Nice win by Hou. |
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| Feb-11-12 | | kurtrichards: <FIDE revised the pairings.> As usual, FIDE played as the "spoiler" again. What about Hungary-China match? :) |
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| Jul-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: I've seen this game before.
GG from GM Hou Yifan, and a worthy GOTD!
LTJ |
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Jul-26-12
 | | andrewjsacks: Worthy game and worthy pun (Olympics opening in a day), but Judit has not passed the torch to Yifan yet, and probably won't for quite some time, if ever. |
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Jul-26-12
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Excellent--I get to ask the Dumb Question of the Day! What happens after 14...Nd5? Is it the pawn sacrifice 15.e5,f6; 16.Ne4,fxe5; 17.c4? Or perhaps the answer is 15.exd5,Kxd6; 16.dxc6+,Kc7; 17.cxd7,Rb8; 18.dxc8/Q+ (and isn't that a journey!)? |
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| Jul-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <An Englishman> There is in-depth analysis of this game by GM Alejandro Ramirez in the following link, http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...
In his analysis he looks at 14...Nd5.
LTJ |
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| Jul-26-12 | | master of defence: Why not 22...Kf5? |
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| Jul-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <master of defence> 22...Kf5 23. Nd6+! Kf6 24. Rxe5!  Analysis Diagram - Position after 24. Rxe5!
click for larger viewLTJ |
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Jul-26-12
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: <LoveThatJoker>, thanks for the link. If the line really is sound, do you think they might name the variation after me? |
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| Jul-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <An Englishman> Yes! That would be great! :) LTJ |
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Jul-26-12
 | | kevin86: the bishop is trapped! |
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Jul-26-12
 | | zakkzheng: <kevin86>
Bc8 the bishop is not trapped |
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| Jul-26-12 | | lemaire90: I have been waiting for this game for a super long time (Y. Hou vs. J. Polgar) !! Glad to see some good chess between the two and looking forward to more games ! |
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| Jul-26-12 | | thendcomes: <JointheArmy> <Because Koneru couldn't muster anything more than a draw and Polgar got blew off the board by Hou?
Forget best women's player, Hou could be giving Magnus a run for his money in a few years time.> You're clearly a big Yifan fan, but relax on the hyperbole, no? Hou didn't blow Polgar off the board (?), and Hou will never compete for #1 in the world. This is Polgar's first loss to a woman in something like 13 years, and one game doesn't say much, never mind actually prove anything. Hou is great though, and could eventually take over as best woman in the world. |
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Jul-26-12
 | | weisyschwarz: ...Bc8 48.f6+ Rxf6 49.Rxc8 |
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May-03-13
 | | mrk1839: this game got Hou Yifan the cover of chess news year book 103 - she is an exciting player to watch and i wish her great luck in winning back her title this year! a full match one day with polgar would also be good for chess - FIDE must join the 21st century soon and organize the women's championship with the same rules and equality we see in men's play - as for this game i have no doubt that both came to win and fight for best play - i have no idea what plumber joe has to do with this game, fischer, or anything worth noticing really |
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