The year 2023 has just passed, and Xiangqi Yuan has carefully selected the top ten outstanding chess figures of the year in 2023 according to the results of major competitions. Ten outstanding figures are introduced in ten issues, and this issue brings you the sixth place - Kanto Ranger Meng Chen.
Sixth place, Kanto Ranger Meng Chen.
From November 20th to 24th, 2023 US time, the 18th World Chess Championship was held at the Royal Sonister Hotel in Houston, USA. In the most heavyweight men's individual final, the Kanto Ranger Meng Chen narrowly escaped death in slow chess, and defeated the first overseas Vietnamese chess king Lai Li Brother to win the championship in the extra round of rapid chess. This is also the first time Meng Chen has won the individual championship in the world competition.
From April 22 to 27, the 2nd National Rapid Chess Championship 2023 was held in Bozhou City, Anhui Province. In the final of the men's rapid chess group, Meng Chen, a Kwantung Ranger, won the championship with a record of 1 win and 1 draw, and Zhao Panwei, a teammate of the Sichuan team, won the championship, and alien Wang Tianyi defeated Cheng Ming, a knife and axe, to win the third place.
From July 21st to 23rd, the 2023 Dongguan 7th "Yuen Long Ronghua Cup" Chess Open was held at Tianyue Hotel, Shijie Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. Many national champions, grandmasters, international grandmasters, national masters, amateur masters and other 184 chess players from all over the country participated in the competition. After three days and eleven rounds of fierce competition, Grandmaster Meng Chen ranked first with 20 points and won the championship, which was also the third time Meng Chen won the championship of the event.
On October 15, the first "General Cup" Dalian Chess Open was completed, the Kanto Ranger Meng Chen won the championship, and Wang Yubo, one of the future twin stars, won the runner-up.
Meng Chen's record this year is very good, in addition to the above championships, he also has good performances in other events.
From April 30th to May 7th, the 2023 National Individual Chess Championship was held at the Kyriad Hotel in Nansha District, Guangzhou. In a world-renowned decisive battle between the champion and the runner-up, the alien Wang Tianyi abandoned the horse and attacked, perhaps too eager for the championship, emotion overcame reason, Meng Chen was greedy and was attacked by Wang Tianyi's madness, and finally lost.
Meng Chen is known as the "uncrowned king", and has long had the strength of the national champion, but for various reasons, he has missed the national championship, especially this year is the closest to the national championship, unfortunately the opponent in the final is Wang Tianyi, the first person in the world, and finally had to swallow the bitter fruit again.
However, in such a top competition, he eliminated the young chess master Yin Sheng, the grandmaster sword and axe player Cheng Ming, the national champion Chaozhan Tianwang**, the abandoned master Cao Yanlei, and the world champion six-vein Shenjian Zhao Xinxin, although he lost to the first person Wang Tianyi in the final, but it is also a very good record to be able to win the runner-up.
He won the second place at the 3rd Shenzhen "Lunar New Year Cup" Grandmaster Rapid Chess Invitational Tournament held in January 2023, but the champion was Wang Tianyi, so this result is still good enough.
In this year's Elephant League of the top competition, he won the runner-up on behalf of the Sichuan team, but the champion Hangzhou team was led by the first person Wang Tianyi, so the runner-up was also full of color.
He also won the runner-up in this year's national team competition on behalf of the Sichuan team. At the 3rd "Belt and Road" 2023 Shenzhen Chess International Invitational Tournament held in June, he won the third place. He won the runner-up in the "True Jade World Cup" Chess Open in Nanyang Zhenping, Henan, the hometown of the national champion Yujiaolong Liu Huan. At the end of the year, at the 2023 "Immortal Guiding Cup" National Chess Masters Invitational Tournament, he also won the runner-up.
With so many wins, runners-up and third places to win, his record this year is outstanding, and he is proud of the chess world.
Meng Chen, born in Anshan, Liaoning Province in 1988, is a chess grandmaster and graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin.
He learned chess at the age of five under the influence of his grandfather, and then came under the tutelage of Shang Wei, a famous chess master known as the "King of Throwing Knives".
Under the guidance of famous teachers, his chess skills improved by leaps and bounds, and by the time he was a teenager, he had few local rivals.
So, he packed his bags, stepped into the rivers and lakes, and traveled the world ever since.
Like many of his ancestors, he first came to the Tianjin wharf.
Since ancient times, it has been a place where chess players gather, and high-rollers from all walks of life have set foot here, jumping knives in the car, and the sound of fighting all day long is endless.
He is like a fish in water, tossing and turning on various occasions all day long, and after countless battles, his chess skills are becoming more and more proficient.
At the age of 21, he won the Tianjin Chess Championship.
Years of experience finally came to fruition, and he broke through the title of "Tianjin's No. 1 Master" here.
Here, he not only excels in chess, but also gains love.
Wang Qing, a beautiful and kind local girl, flew into his life and his psychology like a swallow.
At this time, his vision is no longer limited to Tianjin, he wants to soar in a broader sky.
This year he joined the Hunan chess team.
Here he has the opportunity to communicate with more masters, and he has performed well in the Elephant League Qualifiers, Smart Games, National Individual Competition, Cai Lunzhu Cup and other events.
At the age of 23, he won the ninth place in the national individual competition and became a chess master.
He joined Shandong at the age of 24, came to Hangzhou at the age of 27, and moved to Jiangsu at the age of 29.
He traveled all over the country, sweating like rain on the weevil, and his achievements were outstanding, which made people look sideways.
Everywhere he pierced the sky like a meteor, leaving a dazzling moment.
In the 2016 God of Wealth Cup, he passed all the way and defeated Wang Tian in a row.
1. Jiang Chuan, Xu Tianhong, and Xie Jing reached the finals, and defeated Xu Yinchuan in the decisive battle to win the first national heavyweight championship in their lives. This year he is 28 years.
Because he is against Wang Tian.
1. Xu Yinchuan and other grandmasters have a good record, so the nickname of "Mega Killer" has spread far and wide.
He came to Sichuan in 2017 and helped the Sichuan team win the national team championship that year, and he was out of control, winning a total of four times in five years.
Not only that, in the highest level of the country's elephant armor competition, from 2019 to 2021, he helped the Sichuan team win three consecutive championships.
In 2018, he won the Asian Chess Championship and has since joined the Grandmasters.
Since then, he has fought in the south and the north, and the east and the west, with brilliant achievements, and winning championships is commonplace.
He finished in the national top three three three times and the top six nine times.
Perennial national top few, such a terrifying strength, not only chess fans fell in love with him, but many national champions also admired him.
Meng Chen's record this year is very good, he not only won the heavyweight World Championships, but also won the national rapid chess championship, the national individual championship, the Xiangjia League runner-up, the Yuen Long Ronghua Cup champion, the general's cup champion, and he also won the second and third places in some other events. Because of his extraordinary record, he was selected as the sixth of the top 10 outstanding chess players of the year.
With a long smile on the sword, he went out to travel all directions.
Ambition swallows the universe, and chivalrous bones are resistant to wind and frost.
From amateur chess player to world champion, Kanto Ranger Meng Chen, a chess knight who has traveled all over the country, experienced hardships, perseverance, and swept the world, is writing his extraordinary life, and his legendary story will continue ......
The next installment will bring you the fifth place in the Top 10 Outstanding Chess Players of the Year 2023. Stay tuned!