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Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game of chess.

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Dominic Lawson talks to women's world chess champion Hou Yifan.

Dominic Lawson talks to the women's world chess champion Hou Yifan. Still only 19, Yifan is one of only a handful of women to have become an elite grandmaster.

Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game of chess. In this episode he interviews the women's world champion, Hou Yifan. Still only 19, she's one of only a handful of women to have become an elite grandmaster. And she comes from a country with no strong link to chess, China.

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