The four-time women’s world champion, ranked the No 2 all-time woman after the retired Judit Polgar, shows that she retains her skills Hou Yifan, the all-time No 2 woman grandmaster after the retired ...

Even by the standards of chess prodigies, Hou Yifan stood out. It wasn’t so much the way she played the game—dynamically but not dazzlingly, with an aggressive but flexible style. It was that she was ...

FIVE MINUTES BEFORE the eighth round of the World Chess Grand Prix in Geneva, the room was silent. The competitors had taken their seats, 18 of the world's best chess players facing off across nine ...

Hou Yu-ih has vowed to invest in Taiwan’s defenses while pursing dialogue with China. It is unclear whether Beijing would condition the latter on Hou not pursuing the former. Kuomintang (KMT) ...

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - OCTOBER 13: Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien attends Passing Beauty: A conversation with Hou Hsiao-Hsien presented by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and The Getty Research Institute ...

If there is such a thing as casual gravitas, then Hou Hsiao-hsien embodies it. Arriving in the lobby of the Park Hyatt in Busan, South Korea, where his martial-arts epic, “The Assassin,” is making one ...