He is a 69-year-old Hong Kong chess champion who won over Hu Ronghua Lu Qin Li Laiqun's eight celebrities

Text/Chess Gate ★ Hermit

To say that chess in Hong Kong, has been very good, over the years, chess in the streets of Hong Kong, have been everywhere.

The most powerful first chess player in Hong Kong, he is undoubtedly one of the outstanding ones, which is Zhao Ruquan, known as the king of Chess in Hong Kong.

Zhao Ruquan is an international grandmaster of chess who has received many rewards, whether it is the world championship or the Asian competition, he has his presence.

Although Zhao Ruquan is a Hong Kong chess king, he was not born in Hong Kong, he was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and later moved to Hong Kong.

In 1952, Zhao Ruquan was born, and if you calculate it, this should be the same era as Hu Ronghua and Liu Dahua, seven years younger than the commander and two years younger than Liu Te.

Zhao Ruquan learned chess very late, and he had no experience in this area when he was young.

It was not until he was fifteen years old that he saw people playing chess by chance, fascinated by it, and from then on, he became a determined chess lover.

Although he learned chess very late, Zhao Ruquan's chess talent is very good, and soon he showed his head in the game, especially his chess style is good and brave, the offensive force in the middle and back game is particularly strong, the level of the endgame is also superb, and Zhao Ruquan has risen rapidly and become a banner in the Hong Kong chess world.

There have been many times when Zhao Ruquan has fought with Hu Ronghua, Lü Qin, Xu Yinchuan, Li Laiqun, Zhao Guorong, etc. in the international arena, and has won many victories, and is a rare chess master.

On Zhao Ruquan's performance list, according to calculations, he has won the Hong Kong Chess Individual Championship many times since the 1970s.

After that, he won the second place in the China, Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong Chess Masters Invitational Tournament, and in 1979, the twenty-seven-year-old Zhao Ruquan became the representative of the Asian Chess League and played well in the Chinese Chess Star Team.

What is more remarkable is that in the ten years from 1984 to 1993, he won the Zhongshan Cup Chess International Invitational Tournament four times, and then won the third Asian City Famous Players Invitational Tournament and the second chess king third place.

At the 1993 World Chess Championship, Zhao Ruquan won the fourth place, and Zhao Ruquan was the main force of the Hong Kong team in China for many times, playing in the World Championship and the Asian Tournament, with gratifying results, and won the top few in the Asian Tournament several times.

Zhao Ruquan was one of the first batch of chess international grandmasters approved by the Asian Elephant Federation, and was also one of the top five international masters at that time, second only to Hu Ronghua and a few other chess players.

However, Zhao Ruquan often laughed at himself for not being able to do it, but in fact, his strength was very strong, remembering that there was a ring tournament held in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, when the crowd was full of national champions, and the champion also took the lead.

As a result, Zhao Ruquan successfully provoked in one fell swoop, defeated Lü Qin, and won a 50,000 yuan grand prize for breaking the ring.

The third Yang Guanxuan Cup, again Zhao Ruquan, pressed a number of Vietnamese masters, as well as many other national and regional celebrities, and won the laurel of the overseas group of the Yang Guanphos Cup.

According to statistics, Zhao Ruquan has won at least eight chess masters such as Hu Ronghua, Yang Guanxuan, Liu Dahua, Wang Jialiang, Lü Qin, Zhao Guorong, Xu Tianhong, and Li Laiqun.

Zhao Ruquan is a well-deserved Hong Kong chess king, a chess symbol of an era in Hong Kong, although he is 69 this year, almost seventy years old, but still very fast chess, his life, should be dedicated to the cause of chess.

(Chess Gate ★ Hermit)