The picture shows Xiao Yiyi participating in the "Wheel War" on the spot.
Photo by Yin Yuan
The picture shows Ye Jiangchuan playing against Xu Minghan, a 64-year-old chess enthusiast.
Photo by Yin Yuan
The picture shows Bu Xiangzhi participating in the "Wheel War" on the spot.
Photo by Yin Yuan
China News Service, Chongqing, July 4th (Han Lu Yinyuan) On the 3rd, Ye Jiangchuan, a chess grandmaster and vice-chairman of the World Chess Federation, appeared in Chongqing to have a "wheel battle" with more than 20 chess enthusiasts.
Ye Jiangchuan won the title of Grand Master of Chess in 1993. He is a seven-time national champion and has represented the Chinese men's team in the Chess Olympiad for 12 consecutive times.
During his tenure as the head coach of the Chinese national chess team from 2000 to 2020, Ye Jiangchuan not only trained Xie Jun, Hou Yifan and many other world chess queens, but also led the Chinese chess men's and women's teams to win multiple Olympiad Chess Championships and World Chess Championships. Team Championship.
Over the years, Ye Jiangchuan has been keen to promote and popularize chess. He has traveled to Chongqing to promote chess several times, so that young people can experience the charm of chess.
"Chongqing's chess popularization has done very well. Our Jiulongpo District won the 'National Chess Hometown' in 2015. Chongqing has also produced individual chess world champions such as Tan Zhongyi, Lei Tingjie, Huang Qian and others. Team world champion member." Ye Jiangchuan said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that for young people, chess can improve their logical thinking ability, cultivate their overall awareness and a positive attitude in the face of setbacks. "At the same time, it is also a A global entertainment and social event where little players can rely on chess to make friends wherever they go in the world."
In Ye Jiangchuan's view, "wheel battle" is the best way to bring high-level chess players closer to chess enthusiasts, "This will allow more chess enthusiasts, especially young chess fans, to get close to chess players. Interacting with chess masters, and the content and changes generated when playing with masters, will help increase children's interest and love for chess."
At the scene, two famous chess masters, Bu Xiangzhi, a chess grandmaster, and Xiao Yiyi, a female chess grandmaster, also participated in the "wheel battle".
The more than 60 chess fans who played against them were as young as 3 years old and as young as 64 years old.
The reporter saw at the scene that the chess players thought carefully about every move and made careful moves.
Although the opponents were ordinary citizens and teenagers, the masters also played very seriously.
Many young chess fans will also record the chess moves against the master one by one and study them carefully.
Among the chess enthusiasts who played against Ye Jiangchuan, in addition to teenagers, there was a 64-year-old chess enthusiast Xu Minghan.
"I started to practice chess formally after I retired." Xu Minghan told reporters that he had been engaged in software development and Japanese professional work.
Chess has a strong training for people's logical thinking, which is also one of the directions of my current research. "I hope to use the integration of chess and programming language to help more people carry out intellectual training."
Chongqing Jiulongpo District was awarded the "Hometown of Chess" by the China Chess Association in 2015, and the atmosphere of chess is strong.
On the same day, the Chongqing Jiulongpo Youth Chess Championship was held.
More than 200 young chess players from more than 20 schools in the district participated in the competition.
"We have been holding promotion activities such as chess tournaments since 2003. In fact, chess is not only a competitive sport in the world, it is also a cultural and educational activity. While continuing to promote chess, we are also advocating 'to Chess inspires intelligence and chess raises morality, which is of great value and significance for our young people in their growth." Yang Shengyu, president of the International Chess Association of Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, told reporters.
As one of the earliest schools in Chongqing to carry out chess courses, chess players from Chongqing Yucai Middle School have represented Chongqing in national youth competitions and won awards for many times.
"Our school conducts chess courses in a school-based curriculum. In the first grade, the school has one international sports chess lesson every week to ensure that the content of chess education and teaching can be implemented. After the senior grades, the school will use clubs, The hobbies and hobbies such as elective courses can improve the quality of the students in chess.” Zhang Hesong, the principal of Chongqing Yucai Middle School, said that the school holds a chess festival every year, and the students are very enthusiastic about it. “Through the chess game, It can cultivate students' correct concept of victory and defeat, cultivate students' spirit of perseverance and perseverance, and exercise students' psychological endurance." (End)