During the world pandemic, all walks of life fell into a period of shutdown and depression, and online competitions became a dazzling light, giving people vitality, giving people hope, and giving people passion.
As the main force of intellectual sports, chess tournaments have been continuous during the epidemic, so that chess fans have spiritual sustenance, after all, with chess, life is exciting enough.
On August 29-30, the 2020 National Railway Staff Chess Competition was held every day, which was the largest tournament held by the Industry Sports Association.
Railway chess has a long history and brilliant achievements, and the locomotive team is a well-known name.
In the 1990s, the Lokomotiv Sports Association men's team won the National Chess Team Championship twice (Fu Guangming, Wang Bingguo, Cui Yan, Song Guoqiang in 1992, and Yu Youhua, Cui Yan, Jin Bo and Yang Deqi in 1995), and in 1996, the Lokomotiv Sports Association women's team led by Zhang Mei won the National Chess Women's Team Championship.
Thirty years like a white colt through the gap, the team members were full of spirit, and today they have become veteran players and become the shoulder handles of the local chess community. Yu Youhua, Wang Bingguo, Song Guoqiang, Jin Bo and other team members have long been famous in the world and are well known.
Yu Youhua said that the railway arena hid the dragon and crouching tiger, exercised and inspired his own growth, and helped him a lot to become a grandmaster and a national individual champion.
The National Railway Staff Chess Competition, held every two years, is sponsored by the Locomotive Sports Association, and this session is hosted by the Sports Association of Lanzhou Railway Bureau Group Company, with a total of 85 railway chess players from 22 units participating, the competition is held in 9 rounds in two days, the time is 20 plus 5, and the step time is 60 seconds.
The competition is presided over by Fan Ruoyu, a well-known domestic referee, and the competition is strictly organized and strictly required (such as uploading a chess score after the game, uploading the winner, and uploading the red side of the chess, and the non-uploader is handled according to the abstention of both sides), there are boards and eyes, and there is almost no difference with the landing game.
In this competition, Shenyang Song Guoqiang, the master of Shenyang, was the popular candidate to win the championship, Song Guoqiang, Han Bing, Song Xiaowan, and the family of three, all of whom are chess players, and are rare chess families in today's chess world. In addition, the famous Taiyuan Bureau Yang Chengfu and Shenyang Bureau Yang Bolin will also have a strong impact force.
