March is coming, spring is getting stronger, and it is the season of green willows to help the wind. On March 2, the 23rd China Go Southwest Chess Championship in 2024 will be held in Du Fu Thatched Cottage, a cultural landmark in Chengdu, with 16 super-first-class chess players competing for the new championship of the Southwest Chess Championship. This competition gathered 9 world champions and 11 nine-dan chess players from Gu Li, Gu Zihao, Ke Jie, Dang Yifei, Xie Erhao, Yang Dingxin, Ding Hao, Tang Weixing, and Fan Tingyu, and the top six in the current domestic rating all participated in the battle, refreshing the highest in recent years.
As the first chess competition in Chengdu in the new season, this year's Southwest Chess Championship can be called a blockbuster, with a gathering of tops, not only the high-end configuration of the nine world champions, but also the more eye-catching is that Gu Zihao, Ke Jie, Ding Hao, Yang Dingxin, Li Xuanhao, Dang Yifei, the top six in the current domestic rating, as well as Fan Tingyu in the 11th place, Xie Erhao in the 15th place, Liao Yuanhe in the 21st place, and Tu Xiaoyu in the 25th place. It is foreseeable how fierce the competition will be. There are many masters, and this year's Southwest King Championship is another cup match that is more difficult to win than the world championship. Looking forward to the top masters to show their style again, and looking forward to the young newcomers to stand out from the encirclement. The best streamer is March, and there is no return to the only teenager.
The competition will be held in March, using a single-elimination system, each hand of 30 seconds, will be determined through two days and four rounds of competition, the champion will be awarded 250,000 yuan, the runner-up prize of 120,000 yuan. The Southwest Chess Championship, which has reached its 23rd year, has become a traditional high-quality event in Chengdu and plays a positive and important role in Chengdu's construction of a world-famous event city.
This year's tournament will be held for the fourth year in a row at Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, one of Chengdu's cultural landmarks. During the competition, the 20th "Jinguan Chess City Forum" will also be opened, and the chess saints Nie Weiping and Zhang Xuan will be the guests on the day of the finals in Du Fu Thatched Cottage Daya Hall for chess friends to bring wonderful hanging board chess talks, and the poet and the chess saint will meet again for a thousand years.
The 16-member lineup of the 23rd China Go Southwest Chess Championship.
Sichuan: Dang Yifei, Xie Erhao, Tu Xiaoyu, Liao Yuanhe.
Chongqing: Yang Dingxin, Li Xuanhao, Li Xiangyu.
Yunnan: Ke Jie, Liu Yuhang.
Guizhou: Tang Weixing, Chen Zijian.
Invited World Champions: Fan Tingyu (last champion), Gu Li, Ding Hao, Gu Zihao.
Young chess player: Zheng Zaixiang.
Chengdu ** Jinguan News Reporter Chen Hao Responsible Editor He Qitie Editor Wen Zhu According to Chengdu Chess Academy.