On March 6, the 2024 National Bridge Class A Club League kicked off at the Hangzhou Asian Games chess and card venue Zhizhi Building. The Hangzhou leg is the first stop of the event, with a total of 22 teams and about 140 elite players participating, which will last until March 10.
The National Bridge Class A Club League is the highest level of bridge professional competition in China, which has been established for more than 20 years, and has gradually become a platform for communication and competition between high-level clubs, as well as an effective carrier for popularizing bridge sports and expanding the social influence of the project, and an important way to cultivate and deliver high-level talents. With the continuous improvement of the overall level, many clubs have hired foreign aid to participate in the competition, which has played an important role in promoting the development of the project.
Each contest is not only a collision of wisdom and strategy, but also a sharpening of teamwork spirit and willpower. Guo Yujun, deputy director of the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and secretary-general of the China Bridge Association, said that while the league has made great progress in its development, it is also necessary to see the shortcomings in all aspects, and expects the event to become a professional and market-oriented model for bridge.
The reporter learned that Zhejiang Bridge has a good mass base, with 3 clubs participating in the league, and the overall level is in the forefront of the country. As a training base for national bridge competitions, the Hangzhou Branch of the China Chess Academy actively undertakes to hold various bridge events, assists the association in national team training and talent training, and has made positive contributions to promoting the in-depth development of bridge. "After the training of the Asian Games, our team has rich experience in competition organization and service reception, which has laid a solid foundation for Hangzhou to hold more high-level bridge competitions. Liu Xiao, director of the Intellectual Sports Management Office of the Hangzhou Branch of the China Chess Academy, said.
It is reported that the station competition adopts a single round-robin system, a total of a single round-robin, three rounds a day, each round of 16 decks of cards, ranking the station with VP points, and also holding a friendship match during the same period, and a total of three rounds of friendship matches.
In order to meet the needs of the majority of fans, the whole game will be broadcast through the network, the first live broadcast will be opened at 4 pm on the 6th, the national team coach Wang Xiaojing and Zhang Min will be the guest commentators throughout the whole process, bringing a feast to bridge lovers across the country.
The event was hosted by the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and the China Bridge Association, and undertaken by the Hangzhou Branch of the China Chess Academy (Hangzhou Chess Academy and Hangzhou Intellectual Sports Management Center), Hangzhou Intellectual Cultural Industry Association and Hangzhou Bridge Association.