Today I want to talk to you about a lesser-known master of Chinese chess, Yan Wenqing, why should I talk about him? Because I think he's a "tragic person", the sadness is that he is a person who wants to win the national championship very much but lacks a little luck.
Yan Wenqing
First of all, a brief introduction to him, Yan Wenqing was born in 1967, a native of Tangshan, his wife is a woman chess extraordinarily large - Hu Ming (this person is too cattle, want to know can be searched by Baidu), there are many teachers, the most famous of which are Liu Dianzhong and Li Laiqun. When he was a child, he began to contact chess under the influence of his father, but at this time, he would only walk on horseback and wait for various chess rules, and only when he was about 13 years old did he start to learn chess seriously. What is his level at this time? Some masters can let him drive a cannon, this level frankly said that there is no entry, this is called no level. And more than a year later, these masters are no longer his opponents. Later, he met Bole, a famous coach in Tangshan, Chen Chunjiang, and Cheng Fuyin, a kailuan chess player, who took a fancy to him and focused on guidance, and finally his chess strength began to soar.
1。 Officially entered the chess world
In 1982, at the age of 15, Yan Wenqing participated in the provincial chess tournament for the first time and won the second place in the junior group. In the provincial chess tournament junior group the following year, the medal on his neck changed from white to gold, won the championship, and naturally entered the Hebei Provincial Chess Team. There are two super cattle people, Liu Dianzhong and Li Laiqun, and it is with the help of these two great gods that his chess skills have once again improved by leaps and bounds and made a qualitative leap.
Since then, he has competed in major domestic and foreign competitions many times, winning the fourth place in the national individual in 1990, the third place in the Asian individual in 1991, the second place in the national individual in 1998, and the main member of the Hebei team in 1985, 1997 and 1998. In 1999, he won the team championship and individual runner-up at the 6th World Chess Championship, the 2000 National Sports Conference won the team runner-up, and in 1999, together with Xu Yinchuan, he represented China in the 6th World Chess Championship and won the team championship. You see, the individual race is not the second place, or the runner-up, anyway, there is no champion, this is the sadness I want to say, and his strength can reach the championship, what is missing is a little luck.
Writing that this is all a boring introduction, I will tell you some interesting things about Yan Wenqing.
2。 Prefer a character that does not bend
This kind of personality mainly talks about his style of playing chess, that is, it is better to lose and disagree, Wang Tianyi is very similar to him, this personality is used in chess I think very good, of course, some people may not like, representative is Wang Tianyi, Wang Tianyi does not like chess, so many chess players do not like him, play and play, and can not be reconciled, and how many people who will like Wang Tianyi? In this I still want to take the Shanghai team as a negative teaching material, the Shanghai team and other people really make us feel that they are really representatives of moderation, all day long is to walk and chess, there is no innovation, there is no god one hand, this kind of chess does not look at all, this is the harmony chess also has the rules of money to take and the atmosphere of harmony and wealth. And Yan Wenqing is obviously not such a person, the most typical is that in the 1998 individual competition with Xu Yinchuan, he was still unwilling to passively seek peace under the heavens and places where he could win the championship, and everywhere he fought for the battle, resulting in failure. In the end, the champion belonged to Xu Yinchuan, and he only won the second place. It is said that after the game, Yan Wenqing sat paralyzed in a chair for half a day and did not want to get up, many people saw it very sad, but this is after all the sportsmanship of the competition, winning and losing are normal. And Xu Yinchuan also talked about Yan Wenqing during the live broadcast, and also talked about this game, he also felt that Yan Wenqing may be a little less lucky, and the strength to win the championship is there.
Yan Wenqing was watching chess
3。 An agreement with his girlfriend Hu Ming
Now Hu Ming is already Yan Wenqing's wife, but when they were still boyfriend and girlfriend (98 years), there was an agreement, that is, when Yan won the individual championship that year, Hu Ming would marry him, and if he won the championship, he could be promoted to a domestic chess grandmaster. At that time, the first ten rounds of the individual competition Yan's results were very good, four wins and six and the competition score was higher than Xu Yinchuan, the last set was against Xu Yinchuan, because the score was high, so as long as he and he can win the championship, the result was lost, this thing I also said above, so he did not get the domestic super big, in the country he is still just a master title, but there is an international mega title. Of course, in the end, Hu Ming still married him, but since this game, Yan Wenqing's mentality may have problems, and there will be no good results in the game.
Here mentioned Hu Ming, I briefly say her, she was born in 1971, four years younger than her husband, she entered the provincial team training in 82 years, a year earlier than her husband into the provincial team, she won the women's national championship at the age of 15, the women's national championship for five consecutive years from 90 to 94, and was the first female chess player in the Chinese chess industry to win all the championship titles in the world, Asia and national championships. Her achievements and status in women's chess are like Hu Ronghua, Xu Yinchuan, Wang Tianyi and the like, the absolute king of women's chess. She personally said that her level was inferior to that of her husband Yan Wenqing, and Yan often guided her to play chess. This shows that there is still a gap between the level of women and the level of men, for example, the current Tang Dan can not play Wang Tianyi, this year they have used millions of chess pieces to compete, Xu Xian also broadcast live, everyone should still have an impression.
Ming and Qing couples
Yan Wenqing is now the head coach of the Hebei chess team, and Hu Ming is also the vice president of the Hebei Chess Academy. Both husband and wife are contributing to the Hebei chess team.
4。 Not so lucky
At the beginning, it is said that Yan Wenqing has championship strength, but he does not have too good luck. Why? First, I will show you a chart about the winning rate of Yan Wenqing and some chess players.
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Through this chart, we can see that Yan Wenqing's win rate against Xu Yinchuan is only a pitiful 18.8%, even against Commander Hu has a winning rate of 57, Liu Te also has a winning rate of 55, and he is most likely to win the individual championship in 1993 and 1998, and these two years he lost to Xu Yinchuan, and both are Xu Yinchuan's champions. I have to say that this is a kind of life. This may be the so-called nemesis.
In addition to the skill and state of chess, you also need luck I don't know if everyone recognizes or not, I think it needs luck, such as someone's chess style and your chess style, if that person is eliminated by others, then there is no chess person who has ke you chess, maybe your reputation will be much better, on the contrary, you may win many games but will lose to the person who has your chess style, the previous victory will be in vain, Xu Xian's chess I think is Ke Yan Wenqing's, the two of them are a bit like "both Sheng Yu He Sheng Liang" feeling.
The picture below is the final stage of Xu Xianxian's victory over Yan Wenqing in the 1998 individual final.
5。 Chess world "seekers" and layout experts
Yan Wenqing's chess style and his personality can be said to be a pair of twin brothers. His old partner Zhang Qiang once said: "What kind of person you are, you will play what kind of chess." This statement is very loud and very serious. Master Yan is a complete temperamental person, projected onto the style of chess, in his own words, that is, "like to innovate, the pursuit of higher quality of the game, not just the results, is a typical "Tao-seeking school". That is to say, he pursues art, not scores on paper. So he would rather pursue high-quality matches in '98 than win a game with a chess match. This kind of spirit is really precious.
Speaking of layout experts, now everyone thinks of Zheng Weitong, and the earliest layout expert is actually not Yan Wenqing. He is also a recognized layout expert in chess. He cooperated with Master Zhang Qiang, worked hard, and spent more than two years to create a landmark work "Layout Three-Piece Set", namely layout doubts, layout traps, layout deceptions, interlocking, mutual complementarity, integration, and its practicality is praised by the majority of chess fans. He is a well-deserved layout expert.
6。 Interesting character traits
Yan Wenqing likes to have a small mustache, and the smoking addiction is very large, to what extent? When the game is played, you have to leave the table to draw a few. And the high-standard game, but is absolutely not allowed to smoke, Yan Wenqing has no way, had to get up to smoke outside the corridor, a game down, can intermittently smoke seven or eight cigarettes, a cigarette is the shortest smoking three or four minutes, eight cigarettes add up to go to half an hour. His chess speed originally inherited Li Laiqun's tradition of "nine days of divine travel", coupled with the time of smoking, which seriously affected the results of key rounds.
Speaking of which, I have to feel fortunate for Master Yan, huh? Glad? yes. Fortunately, he is a professional chess player, playing a professional competition with a relatively loose time limit, if you are like an amateur chess player to participate in those "speed first strength second" amateur open tournaments, forty packs of dry, thirty packs of dry, then wait until you go out to smoke less than three cigarettes, back to the seat, sorry, your opponent has a sly face "no fight and surrender", the referee announced that you overtime to lose.
7。 Life after retirement
After 2000, he took over the shuai seal from teacher Liu Dianzhong and served as the head coach. Leading the Hebei team to conquer the north, the Hebei women's team won the three national team championships from 2007 to 2009, and the men's team won the 2015 team championship. In addition, world champion You Yingqin, Grandmaster Shen Peng and Lu Weitao have all received his true biography. In 2008, the Hebei Provincial Chess Team opened training classes for the whole country, and the good atmosphere and scientific training allowed many famous players to break through themselves and benefit a lot. (Including Wu Junqiang, Su Shaofeng, Wang Yuefei), look at the student Tao Li Tianxia.
Speaking of his books, it is naturally his "Layout Three-Piece Set", namely ("Layout Stereotypes and Tactics", "Layout Deception and Countermeasures", "Layout Doubts and Attacks"). It is reported that in order to write these three books well and let more amateur chess fans learn the most practical layout theory knowledge, he spent two years before and after. Even at such an important moment as participating in the individual competition at that time, he was still picking up the lights every day, compared with today's writers who paid for the remuneration and fame, the quality was sloppy, the attitude was nothing less than a world, he often said that if the book was not for making money, he wrote books and chess is a principle that is to be good, to be wonderful, in order to write well, the wonderful writing does not care how much time it takes.
8。 Message to Yan Wenqing
Although Hu Ming has long been famous in the world, Yan Wenqing's reputation is not as good as his wife's, but he has brought us many wonderful games when competing, although he did not win the individual championship, he is the "uncrowned king" in the hearts of chess fans, and hopes that the Hebei chess team can peach and plum the world under the guidance of their husband and wife, cultivate more chess giants, and be a national individual champion, adding luster to Chinese chess, and cheering on the "Ming and Qing" couple. Cheers on Chinese chess.
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