HOU YIFAN, THE TRUE WOMEN'S WORLD CHESS CHAMPION

Kirsan & FIDE screwed world championship before, now they are doing it again.
Hou Yifan is the strongest chess player in the world, she defended her title in 2016 but crapy
FIDE wanted her to play other knock out tournaments to qualify for the world championship. 
There is little chance current world champion Wenjun could beat Yufan.
This is absolutely not acceptable. In her own words:
												
HY: I decided to drop out from WGP cycle after I received an unclear answer from FIDE regarding 
the possibility of a change in the current Women’s World Championship system. I participated in 
all previous cycles, since 2009, and the main reason in recent years was that the overall winner 
got the right to play the Women’s World Championship match. I didn’t think this was actually 
reasonable, but it was the only option I had. Now the situation is different. 
I do not see any point in taking part in the different stages only to be able to play 
in the WWCC, especially when the opponents usually are at least one hundred points below me. 
For years now I have expressed my deep dissatisfaction to FIDE about this, 
but they didn’t accept anything I said. So I won’t consider staying in a system with which I 
completely disagree.

FF: Will you be playing in the knockout Women’s World Championship, which is scheduled for 
later this year?

HY: No, I won’t even think about it. I can’t agree with the current system. I would like 
to mention that since the previous WWCCh Match was postponed to this year, 
the knockout tournament should be held at least one year later. I mentioned 
this to FIDE, last year before I signed the contract of the Lviv Match 
and the reply was that they had received my request and “would discuss 
it at the next board meeting”— same answer as always. Okay, back to your 
question: already in 2012 I hesitated with my participation. I had won the match 
against Humpy in Tirana, and then reluctantly played in the knockout world 
championship in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, with a very unsatisfying result. 
Then the knock-out tournament in 2015, which was supposed to be held on 
late 2014, clashed with the Hawaii Chess Festival.                      
This time I had no choice as I promised to play in Hawaii before FIDE 
announced the new dates of the event.

FF: You clearly don’t like playing in the knockout world championship…

HY: I’m flexible with any formats of chess events.                      
The thing I can’t agree with is that such a knock-out tournament will decide 
who is the World Champion. A 64-player knockout event is mostly a lottery: 
you play two games, and if you lose the first for some reason you have good 
chances to be eliminated. It is something that can happen in any of the five 
rounds required to reach the final. I was lucky in 2010 in Turkey, but in 
Khanty-Mansiysk I was knocked out by Monika Socko in round two. In the same 
round the other top seeds Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzychuk were also eliminated, 
all three of us by players rated 150 points lower. The winners of previous 
knockout world championships have been Xu Yuhua, Alexandra Kosteniuk, 
Hou Yifan, Anna Ushenina, Mariya Muzichuk – strong players, 
but in some cases not close to the strongest in the world. 


Muzychuk - Hou Women's World Championship Match (2016), Lviv, Ukraine:

	  Elo   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Yifan Hou  2667  ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1  6
Muzychuk   2563  ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0  3


The 2018 women's world championship is a farce because real champion 
Hou Yifan did not defand her crown.
You have to beat Da Woman to become Da Woman.

Tan - Ju Women's World Championship Match (2018), China:

The FIDE Women's World Chess Championship match between defending champion Tan Zhongyi and 
challenger Ju Wenjun was a 10 game match taking place May 3-18. Tan Zhongyi had won the 
Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2017), whereas Ju Wenjun qualified as 
challenger from the Grand Prix series ending at FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty-Mansiysk 
(2016). The first half of the match was in the Intercontinental Hotel Puxi, near the 
historic centre of Shanghai, May 3-9, after which the match moved to Chongqing for 
the remaining five games, May 12-18. The players received 90 minutes for the first 
40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, 
with a 30-second increment from move one (same as in 2016 championship).

		     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Ju Wenjun    2571  ½ 1 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½  5½
2 Tan Zhongyi  2522  ½ 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½  4½