On the morning of August 18th, Haiwan Town, Fengxian District, Shanghai, ushered in a blockbuster chess wheel battle, where ten chess players who participated in the Rookie King Tournament and 100 national elephant enthusiasts from Fengxian District Chess Characteristic School played a 1-on-10 wheel exhibition match. The promotion of the "Yiqi Fun Bay" National Elephant Culture Week was also kicked off on the same day.
"I especially envy them for having such a good opportunity to compete with each other and grow through competition." Xie Jun, Vice President of FIDE, came to Xinghuo School on the same day and gave a speech entitled "Chess and Talent Training" for 100 students and parents. In an interview, she said, "I hope that they can remove the 'newcomer' in the future and become a real chess king or chess queen." ”
This year is a bumper year for Chinese chess, with Ding Li and Ju Wenjun taking the titles of World Chess King and World Chess Queen respectively, while the Chinese National Elephant has also completed the "four-step" strategy. From 1991, when Xie Jun won the title of world chess queen for the first time, to 1998, when the Chinese women's team won the Olympic team competition for the first time, to the Chinese men's team winning the Olympic team championship trophy for the first time in 2014, and now Ding Liren is crowned the world chess champion. After 32 years of hard work, the "four-step" goal was finally achieved. Xie Jun sighed, "We only set up a national training team in 1986, but in more than 30 years, chess has achieved a leap and breakthrough in the mainland. ”
Thinking of danger in times of peace, when talking about the upcoming Asian Games, Xie Jun expressed his expectations and worries, "Although the Chinese team has some advantages in terms of results now, I can feel a sense of crisis, and it is foreseeable that the competition in this Asian Games will be very fierce." ”
At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the Chinese National Elephant Team won 3 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze, winning both the men's and women's team competitions, Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue won the gold and silver medals in the women's individual competition, and Bu Xiangzhi won the bronze medal in the men's individual competition. Thirteen years later, the Chinese men's team will be led by Ding Liren and sent Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi and Xu Xiangyu, while the women's team will be composed of former world chess queens Hou Yifan and Tan Zhongyi, as well as rookies Zhu Jiner and Zhai Mo.
"At home, of course we have high expectations for results. But on a larger level, the return of the national elephant to the Asian Games family makes us feel very happy. "Now chess is developing very well in Asian countries, especially young players like India, who are growing rapidly and have shown the potential to reach the highest peak in the world, and the biggest challenge we face comes from India." ”
The breakthrough of competitive performance is inseparable from the education and popularization of national elephants among young people. In a lecture entitled "Chess and Talent Training", Xie Jun mentioned the role of learning national elephants in cultivating comprehensive qualities such as concentration and thinking ability. "I myself am the biggest beneficiary of learning chess." Xie Jun shared her personal growth and understanding when saying that from the age of 4 to learn chess, to the age of 10 to learn chess, and then to the first world chess at the age of 21, now she has changed from a world champion to a coach and educator, "Just like when playing chess, chess pieces will constantly change positions and tasks, I now look at chess through different positions and different perspectives, and the national elephant brings me a kind of thinking training, and it is also the most valuable ability to benefit my life." ”
Editor-in-chief: Chen Hua Text editor: Yao Qinyi
Source: Author: Fengxian Sports