Changsha Evening News, Changsha, December 26 According to the people's ** news: On December 24, the finals of the 8th National Amateur Chess Championship of the "Xingyang Chuhe Hanjie Cup" in 2023 ended in Xingyang City, Henan Province, and the Shaanxi team Bruce Lee, the Hebei team Gu Chunqi, the Sichuan team Su Yilin, and the Hebei team Liu Xiaoru won the championship of 4 competitions respectively. The Hebei team won the team championship. Hou Jiangtao and Hou Chenghao from Hebei won the first place in the family duo group.
The finals include four competitions: open men's, open women's, junior men's, and junior women's, as well as family duo performances. Among them, the open men's group will have 9 rounds of competition, and the rest of the group will have 7 rounds of competition. The team result is determined by the sum of the top 4 players in each team's competition.
In the open men's group final, Shaanxi team Bruce Lee defeated Guangxi team Lao Yehua in slow chess and won the championship. Bruce Lee won the 4th place in the open men's group twice in the finals of the 1st and 5th National Amateur Chess Championships. In this finals, he won the championship with 6 wins and 3 wins and an undefeated record.
After the game, Bruce Lee said that the process of winning the championship was very difficult, and the opponents were all excellent chess players from all over the country who had been selected at various levels, and he was lucky to be able to win the championship. "Xingyang is the location of the 'Chu River Han Boundary' on the chess board, and you can feel a strong chess cultural atmosphere when you come to Xingyang to compete. I hope that this championship will become a new starting point on my chess journey and realize my dream of becoming a national chess master as soon as possible. ”
In the rest of the groups, in addition to the junior men's championship won by Su Yilin of the Sichuan team, the open women's, junior women's, family doubles and team championships were all won by the Hebei team. As a result, the Hebei team became the biggest winner of this finals.
After the competition, a closing ceremony was held to present awards to the winning players, and awards were presented to the three "best competition areas" of Shandong, Jiangsu and Sichuan, and the seven "excellent competition areas" of Gansu, Hebei, Tianjin, Hunan, Xinjiang, Henan and Zhejiang.
The National Amateur Chess Championship is a mass brand event founded by the China Chess Association in 2016. This year, the event joined hands with the people of Xingyang City to name the "Xingyang Chuhe Hanjie Cup", and held more than 800 offline sub-competitions and 7 online monthly competitions, with more than 1 million participants. At the same time, the online division of the Amateur Chess Championship cooperated with "Tiantian Chess" to launch innovative special competitions such as "limited-time qualifying tournaments", with a total of more than 34 million online and offline participants throughout the year.