A major chess event ended in farce after the world's best female grandmaster threw a game having continually being made to play against other women.

The Chinese World Women's Champion Hou Yifan was playing in the final round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess tournament when she resigned in dramatic fashion after just five moves.

Speaking afterwards, the 22-year-old "Queen of chess" said she had been upset with the "unbelievable and weird" pairings throughout the event as she had drawn seven women players out of 10 rounds.

"It makes me really, really upset," she said. "Not just for me but for the other women players.