Woman No.3/Girl No.1
Yifan Hou, born in 1994 in China, is number 3 at the Womans ranking list with a rating on 2577.
At the age of 12, she became and still holds the record for being the youngest ever player to participate at the FIDE Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006), and at the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006).
