China News Service, Shanghai, September 8 (Reporter Miao Lu) The press conference of the 2nd Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open was held on the 8th. The organizing committee announced that the 2nd Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open will be held on September 18. It will be held in Nanxiang, Jiading, Shanghai and Shanghai Center from 21st to 21st.
The Chu River and the Han world are rising, and one chessboard connects the world.
The Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open, founded in 2021, is a top-level chess event founded in Shanghai and facing the world.
The 2nd Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open will consist of professional group, overseas group, celebrity invitational tournament, youth group and amateur group.
The Professional Group and Celebrity Invitational Tournament are offline competitions, and the rest of the groups are online competitions.
In the professional group competition, 23 male players and 7 female players who are at the top of the national level, as well as 1 male and 1 female player from the host, are invited to participate. A total of 32 players will participate.
Top players such as Wang Tianyi, Zheng Weitong, Meng Chen, Jiang Chuan, Hong Zhi, Zhao Xinxin, Xie Jing, Lu Qin, Sun Yongzheng, Tang Dan and Wang Linna will compete in the Shanghai Cup again.
The successful holding of the first Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open has aroused the high enthusiasm of overseas chess players.
This competition attracted 22 members of the World Chess Federation from Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania to form teams to participate. Due to the large number of registrations, some member units need to select 3-4 players through layers of selection. , Although some member units are unable to conduct offline selection due to the epidemic, they still form teams to participate in the form of registration and recommendation.
According to incomplete statistics, nearly 500 chess players from different countries and regions participated in the audition. After layers of selection, nearly 80 chess players from the overseas group will finally be selected to participate in the main competition.
In the communication session of the participating chess players at the press conference, the chess players and team leaders from the overseas group, professional group and youth group communicated and spoke about their feelings about participating in the competition and learning about chess through online and offline methods.
Among them, German chess player Pascal Bieg expressed through video that he has been very interested in Chinese culture since he was a child, and chess made him more fond of Chinese culture. I hope to make friends with chess through this platform, and I look forward to meeting and talking with chess friends from all over the world as soon as possible.
It is worth mentioning that, in order to allow more chess enthusiasts to participate in the Shanghai Cup, this tournament has added an amateur group competition, aiming to make the Shanghai Cup a brand with both high-level professional players and wide participation. competition.
The amateur group competition was held from July to September this year. The sub-stations were set up in Jiading, Huangpu, Xuhui, Jing'an, Pudong, Hongkou, Yangpu, Baoshan, Putuo and other districts. Each game had 100 chess players participating. Known as the amateur group "thousand people race".
Shencheng chess players cross the "Chu River and Han Boundaries" online and offline to exchange the quintessence of culture.
At the press conference, Luo Wenhua, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Sports, and Hu Ronghua, a consultant of the Chinese Chess Association and a chess grandmaster, presented chess to young chess players Liu Hanzong and Liu Sichen, encouraging them to go hand in hand with their studies and chess skills. Go up one floor.
In order to further expand the influence of Shanghai's own brand competition, enhance the brand effect of the competition, and show the image of Shanghai city, the final of this competition will be moved to Shanghai's landmark building "Top of the City" Shanghai Center.
Sports events are one of the core elements for Shanghai to build a world-renowned sports city. Shanghai has always adhered to a global vision and a global vision, benchmarking against the highest international standards and the best level, and on the basis of fully excavating the characteristics of Shanghai’s sports, creating local characteristics Sports event branding.
As a new force in the international competitions with the prefix "Shang", the Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open is based on the local area and benchmarks against the international competition. While setting off a Chinese style, it integrates international standards.
The event not only empowers chess, a Chinese intangible cultural heritage intellectual sport, and promotes the exchange of traditional Chinese quintessence and the world's multicultural ideas, but also contributes to boosting Shanghai's urban spirit, highlighting Shanghai's urban character, and helping Shanghai build a world-renowned sports city.
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