In May–June 2006, China came in third and won the bronze metal at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin, Italy. G.* Interlaboratory Comparison of Untargeted Mass Spectrometry Data Uncovers Underlying Causes for Variability . At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship ( Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). At the Aeroflot Open in February 2007, a few weeks before Hou's thirteenth birthday, she played in the A1 group for the first time. From 6 to 13 March, she played and finished joint 2nd–8th in the 2012 Reykjavik Open 7/9 (+5 =4, TPR 2677).

Hou was thirteen years old at the time, breaking WGM Qin Kanying's record as the youngest champion (she was fourteen years old when winning the title in 1988). From 29 May to 7 June, she played in the 3rd Hainan Danzhou Grand Master Chess Tournament that traditionally showcased the top 10 highest rated Chinese players, although the two highest rated players at the time Wang Hao and Li Chao did not participate.Despite being rated only 2220 and ranked women's number 28 in her own country, she qualified by winning the Chinese Women's Zonal ( 3.

World Youth Chess Championships 2004 Boys U10 Standings Archived 2006-05-24 at the Wayback Machine; accessed 26 March 2006. score (+4 −1 =1, TPR 2609) and her heavily favored team swept the round robin competition with a 7–0 score.Once again she was the top board for Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo winning the individual gold medal for her performance 5/6 (+4 =2, TPR 2749) while leading her team to a second-place finish. While she wound up losing the final game, Hou still had a successful tournament, finishing joint 3rd–5th with a 5/10 score (+2 −2 =6, TPR 2734). This was Hou Yifan's first major team tournament and she was the youngest participant there, at eleven years of age. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.