A 16 year old Chinese girl becomes the worlds youngest female chess champion

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/world/asia/25chess.html?_r=1

"Hou Yifan, a 16-year-old chess player from China, became the youngest world chess champion on Friday, toppling a record held since 1978."

"Ms. Hou said that she received training and financial support from the Chinese government. She studies chess four to five hours a day, and also attends high school. She said that she sometimes fell behind in her work, but her teachers understood and tried to help her out."

and you thought that American super moms were bad, Chinese kids have the government pushing them to excel at an early age lol

seems noone likes chess around eehhh? iam glad that kid won so young yet so strong

I remember when I played with chess masters, I'm not sure if they were going easy on me, but I lasted 40 rounds with him being even. I had a rating of 1200 or somewhere there. Then I grew bored, and stopped playing for 2 years..