On December 19, the 4th "Jishi Media Cup" Chess National Championship North-South Confrontation Tournament in 2020 kicked off at the Nanhu Hotel in Changchun, Jilin Province. Many of the country's top chess players staged the North-South Championship in two ways, and on the first match day, the Southern team finally beat the Northern team 6:5 to lead the north team. Among them, the first rank score, the alien Wang Tianyi plus game quick chess defeated the "smiling tiger" Xu Tianhong, Xu Chao slow chess defeated Jiang Chuan, Wang Yang quick chess defeated Yu Youhua, Zhao Xinxin fast chess won Hong Zhi.
As early as 1931, there were Zhou Deyu and Wan Qiyou in the south, and Zhao Wenxuan and Zhang Dekui in the north, and the battle between the two teams became a real north-south confrontation. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, The Northern King Jialiang Marquis Yushan went south to Guangzhou to challenge Yang Guanxuan and Chen Songshun, and then to the confrontation between Li Laiqun and Zhao Guorong against Hu Ronghua and Lü Qin in 1990, and the dispute between the north and the south continued endlessly.
The competition lasted for four days, with four players from the north and south, led by Chinese chess international grandmasters Lü Qin and Zhao Guorong. The southern team Zhao Xinxin, Xu Chao, Xu Tianhong, Yu Youhua; the northern team Wang Tianyi, Jiang Chuan, Hong Zhi, Wang Yang. This time, the members of the North and South are selected according to the ranking of the Chinese Chess Association. Due to the absence of Xu Yinchuan, Zheng Weitong, Xie Jing, Sun Yongzheng and many other generals, the southern team could only postpone the replacement, and the comprehensive strength was inferior to that of the northern team. But the field of play is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to determine who wins and who loses.
The tournament adopts the all-team round format, one round system, a total of 4 rounds. The prizes are generous, with a total prize of 300,000, a champion prize of 200,000, a runner-up prize of 100,000, and an additional reward of 5,000 for the winner of each game of slow chess.
At the beginning of the game, Wang Tianyi, the number one chess player of the northern team, faced the veteran champion "Smiling Buddha" Xu Tianhong, and the two sides played slowly and peacefully. Playing fast chess, Wang Tianyi used the palace cannon to start with the left middle cannon, and soon the two sides formed a fierce confrontation at the mouth of the river, and the red side happened to pass a soldier, and the side cannon sank to the bottom, preparing to instigate the car artillery to attack from the flank. Xu Tianhong, on the other hand, rushed to the front line on both horses, and one horse pounced, and the black car occupied the rib road and launched a fierce confrontation. However, the three sons of the red car artillery army pressed the border and became a climate. In the end, Wang Tianyi took the lead and won the kill.
Another focus battle, Jiang Chuan played red chess to meet Xu Chao, Jiang Chuan just won the "Country Garden Cup" to win the king, morale is high. In the middle of the jiangchuan artillery town in the middle of the central bureau, the coach commander forced back the black artillery defense with the momentum of the iron door bolt, and then the double horse was connected, preparing to assist the flank, but he was caught by the black car cannon pawn, and the red side had few sons. In the endgame stage, Xu Chao attacked with all his strength, forming a deadly kill with two cannon pawns, and Jiang Chuan was defeated.
In addition, zhao Xinxin of the "Six-Pulse Excalibur" defeated Hong Zhi, the "Heavenly King of Chaos", and Wang Yang, the "White-faced Scholar", defeated Yu Youhua
Tomorrow at 13:00 p.m., the second round of competition will be held, Wang Tianyi vs Yu Youhua, Wang Yang vs Xu Tianhong, Zhao Xinxin vs Jiang Chuan, Xu Chao vs Hong Zhi. Stay tuned for tomorrow's North-South Match!