A small chessboard holds up a big stage (Guanlan Sports)
Behind the accumulation of intellectual sports in Shenzhen, Guangdong, is years of perseverance and struggle. Transform the good mass base into a sustainable driving force for project development, let chess sports help cultivate urban sports culture and add color to people's lives, and the small chessboard will bloom with more dazzling brilliance
In the China Go League A that ended recently, the Shenzhen Longhua team won the championship for the first time. The Shenzhen chess world is no stranger to such "firsts". In December last year, the Shenzhen Pengcheng team won the China Chess League A title for the first time. Successively winning the top domestic chess leagues demonstrates the vigorous development of intellectual sports in Shenzhen, Guangdong.
Not only are the competitive results outstanding, the Shenzhen chess competition market is also hot. Bay Area Cup China Go Masters Tournament, Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters Tournament, Pengcheng Cup National Chess Qualifying Tournament and other brand events were held one after another. my country's first multi-party national chess team training base was settled in Shenzhen Longgang. Go star Ke Jie, Luo Xihe, etc. have successively set up studios... Shenzhen chess circles have many wonderful players, and they have played wonderful chess games.
Measured by the cultural heritage of chess and card games, Shenzhen is not dominant. Since the Shenzhen Chess Academy was established in 1994, local projects have been popularized according to local conditions and laid a solid foundation for public participation. Vigorously developing intellectual sports focusing on Go, Xiangqi and Chess has been written into Shenzhen’s cultural, sports and tourism development plan. In 2022, "Three Chess" released a four-year development and implementation plan at the same time, and Shenzhen's construction of an "intellectual sports city" accelerated.
For non-Olympic projects to take root in a city, it does not happen overnight. Looking back at the development process of Shenzhen's chess and card projects from scratch, from small to large, it not only relies on the driving effect of cultivating fertile soil for talents and cultivating professional clubs, but also benefits from the accumulation of holding high-level events and solid project promotion. Nowadays, competitions are in full swing, chess clubs are bursting with vitality, and chess education is in the ascendant. Behind the accumulation of Shenzhen intellectual sports is years of perseverance and hard work.
In Shenzhen, from Sanqi entering campuses and communities, launching chess public welfare courses online and offline, to creating chess cultural brands such as "Shenzhen Xiangqi Day" and "Chess Tea Culture Festival", and exploring the integrated development of the chess industry, many solid and powerful measures have been taken . Break out of the competitive field and integrate into the social stage, opening up more possibilities for the high-quality development of chess projects.
Use chess as a matchmaker to gather resources from all parties. Transform the good mass base into a sustainable driving force for project development, let chess sports help cultivate urban sports culture and add color to people's lives, and the small chessboard will bloom with more dazzling brilliance.
Zheng Yi
(People's Daily)