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Hou Yifan's first major tournament was on 31 August–12 September 2003 at the Chinese Team Chess Championship (Open) in Tianjin. [23] [ failed verification] [ citation needed] She scored 3/7 with a 2246 performance rating. [24] [ failed verification] [ citation needed] In February, she competed at the fourth Aeroflot Open (Group C) in Moscow, [32] where she scored 2/5(TPR 2111). [33] In April, she came in second at the China Women Selective Tournament in Ningbo for the 2007 Asian Indoor Games to be held in October. She scored 8/14 (+6 =4 −4, TPR 2434). [73]

In December she won the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 in Hatay, Turkey, making her the youngest women's world champion in history. Her compatriot Ruan Lufei was her opponent in the finals. After four games at classical time controls, the score was tied at 2–2, but Hou won the rapid playoffs 3–1 to take the title. Her performance rating was 2585. She played as second reserve and finished with 0/3. [42] The Chinese women's team drew one match and lost all of their others (+0 =1 −7), finishing last. [43] The tournament was won by Russia, with China (men's) coming in second and Armenia third. [44] [45] [46] In April 2008, she competed in Mérida, Spain at the second Ruy Lopez Chess Festival tournament. In the category XV (2616) round-robin event she finished seventh out of eight players with 2/7 (+1, =2, −4) and a rating performance of 2467. [98] [99] European Club Cup – Women". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 17 October 2015. As part of the joint Russian-Chinese Match of Friendship chess festival held from 13 to 15 December held in Shanghai, China, Hou participated in an exhibition match with the GM Evgeniy Najer the 2015 European Champion. Playing a series of rapid and blitz games, she won quite convincingly with a 9.5 to 4.5 score. [161]From 31 March to 9 April, she participated in the 5th Grenke Chess Classic. She finished equal 8th–9th out of ten with a score of 3½/9 (+0 –2 =7). [171] 2019 [ edit ] In an interview in Kazan she said that she was going to start studying international relations at Beijing University in September. She said that she was glad China was moving away from its one-child policy, she would have liked to have had a brother or sister, and she knew of women who had been forced to have abortions. [135]

Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – FIDE Women Grand Prix 2015–16" . Retrieved 17 October 2015. She decided to study for a Master of Public Policy because it covers a wide spectrum of knowledge and concepts, leaving room to consider options for what to do next.In April she participated at the Grenke Classic at Baden-Baden. She finished 5th out of eight players, beating Fabiano Caruana and drawing against Magnus Carlsen after having come close to winning. [169] In November, she finished first jointly with Yu Yangyi, Jules Moussard, and Raymond Song, but third on tiebreaks in the boy's under-ten section of the World Youth Championship, held in Heraklio, Crete (9/11; +8 =2 −1; TPR 2119). [30] Thomas, Louisa (26 July 2021). "Hou Yifan and the Wait for Chess's First Woman World Champion". New Yorker . Retrieved 3 March 2023. In March, at the first Ruy Lopez International Festival (cat. XV (2607)) in Zafra, Hou performed badly to finish last with 2/7 (+1 =2 −4). Her performance rating was 2462. [71] [72]