The game of "Chu River Han Realm" and the interpretation of "Chess King Competition". On December 23, the finals of the 8th National Amateur Chess Championship in 2023 of the "Xingyang Chuhe Hanjie Cup" were grandly opened in Xingyang. More than 300 folk chess masters from all over the country gathered in the "Hometown of Chinese Chess Culture" to compete for the "Folk Chess King" of Chinese Chess.
The finals of the 8th National Amateur Chess Championship are co-sponsored by the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Chess Association, and the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Championship, and co-organized by the Zhengzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, the Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, the Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, the Xingyang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Xingyang Municipal People's **, and supported by the Henan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Henan Provincial National Fitness Center. The competition is divided into two major categories: individual competition and team competition, including the open group (the age span of the contestants is: January 1, 1963 - December 31, 2006), the juvenile group (the age span of the contestants is: January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2011);In the performance category (Family Duo Group), the participating family must be composed of one adult and one member under the age of 12 from three generations, male or female. The more than 300 players who participated in this year's finals are the folk "chess kings" of various provincial-level divisions who stood out from the online and offline duels that exceeded one million people across the country. Therefore, this finals can also be called the pinnacle of national chess amateur players.
The National Amateur Chess Championship is a brand event founded by the China Chess Association in 2016, aiming to encourage the participation of the whole people with "zero threshold" through the "city-province-national" selection. As a result, it is loved by chess enthusiasts all over the country, and the number of participants has increased year by year, and the scale has also been expanding, and the tournament has been successfully held for seven times so far. From 2020 onwards, the National Amateur Chess Championship will also launch an online competition area, using online games to break the boundaries of time and space, so that chess enthusiasts across the country can play in the "cloud" without leaving home.
Xingyang has a deep relationship with Xiangqi, is the root of Xiangqi culture, and the Chu-Han divide located in the territory is the historical prototype of the "Chu River Han Boundary" on the Xiangqi chessboard, and is a unique and irreproducible symbol of chess culture in the world. Therefore, Xingyang is known as the "birthplace of chess culture" and "the hometown of Chinese chess culture". Over the years, Xingyang City has been committed to the excavation, protection and inheritance of chess culture, and "jointly building the world chess cultural capital" has become the consensus of the whole society. The first Chinese Chess Culture Festival, the first Asian Chess Carnival, and the first Chuhe Han World Chess Championship were all held in Xingyang.
It is understood that on the occasion of the opening of the 8th National Amateur Chess Championship Finals in Xingyang, the Xingyang Cultural Tourism and Cultural Creativity Investment Promotion Conference was also successfully held. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project through the Yellow River Cultural Tourism Project, the Shanshui Festival Mountain and Sea Tourism Project, the Henan Chess Association Project, and the Energy Consumption Market Resources and Digital Operation Platform Project signed contracts with the people of Xingyang City. In the future, Xingyang will also take the promotion conference as an opportunity to accelerate the quality and upgrading of the cultural and tourism industry as the goal, develop the tourism industry in a large pattern, build tourism projects in a big way, make great efforts to cultivate market entities, expand tourism cooperation with a large vision, and vigorously tell the story of Xingyang, release more opportunities for cooperation and development, attract enterprises from all walks of life to invest and start a business in Xingyang, tell the story of Xingyang, create a city business card of "poetic Xingyang slow life", and promote the city's high-quality economic and social development with the deep integration of culture, tourism, culture and creativity.
Zhengguan News reporter Chen Kai Shi Zhiguo correspondent Fu Zhihua Wentu.