Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11, China Chess Association News, “Jiangyin Zhouzhuang” 2018 “China Sports Lottery” National Chess Amateur chess tournament finals ended in Jiangyin Zhouzhuang on the 11th, Jiangsu, zhejiang and Sichuan won the third place of the team in this finals. Zhu Guoping, director of the chess and card Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports and president of the Chinese Chess Academy, said that he was confident that chess tournament brands would continue to become bigger and stronger in the future.
In the competition of the most competitive open group, Sichuan chess player Zhao panwei won the men’s championship and Jiangsu chess player Xu Xuxia won the women’s championship. Li Dingwei from the network division and Zhang Jinghua from Anhui division won the men’s and women’s championships in the elderly group. In the junior group competition, Hubei chess player Vanke won the men’s championship with an unbeaten record of 7 wins and 2 wins, while Zhejiang chess player Shao Yujie won the women’s championship with a full victory record. The male and female champions of the children Group were won by Hebei chess player Meng fanrui and Shandong chess player Gao Xiaojing respectively. In the two performance projects, Shandong group Fang Xiaolin/Fang Yansong won the champion of the family double group, and Shanghai chess player Yan Weiguang won the champion of the industry group.
The National Chess Amateur chess tournament this season lasted 11 months, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. A total of 838 competitions were held throughout the year, and the number of participants exceeded 730000. Among them, 117 games were held in provincial capital cities, 334 games were held in prefecture-level cities and 276 games were held in county-level cities. The number of participants in the landing competition was 82419, with the number of stations increasing by 37% year-on-year compared with last year, and the number of participants in the landing competition increased by 21% year-on-year. Zhu Guoping said that the shock and appeal brought by the warm competition scenes during the whole competition could completely match the traditional high-level professional competitive sports events. Chess tournament provides a stage for chess lovers to show their skills, making more and more people change from spectators of sports events to real participants.
Zhu Guoping said that chess tournament opened up professional and amateur barriers, effectively leveraging the enthusiasm of participation in all aspects of social Grassroots. More than 800 events throughout the year not only reflected the prosperity of mass events, but also directly promoted the development of sports and leisure industry. Next, we will continue to do a good job in a down-to-earth manner, listen to the opinions of all parties, and continue to hold this popular event.