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Chongqing News

The National Elite Chess Championship kicks off

2018-11-23 10:08:38

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Beloved by many people around the globe and regarded as the “rhythmic gymnastics of human mind”, chess is an intellectual activity that integrates the elements of science, culture, education,entertainment as well as competitive events. The 2018 National Chess Elite Championship, jointly sponsored by the General Administration of Sport of China's Chess Management Center and the Jiulongpo Government, recently kicked off in Jiulongpo.

The 2018 National Elite Chess Championship kicks off. (Photographed by Wang Maosong)

The Championship is held at Jinfeng Town in Jiulongpo on Nov. 21 and will last three days. Sixteen elite chess players who made significant contribution to the development of chess in China, including Zhu Chen, the chess queen, Liu Shilan, the first woman grandmaster in Asia, Ye Rongguang, the first world-class men grandmaster in China, have gathered for the event at Jiulongpo.

Players compete in the arena. (Photographed by Wang Maosong)

And over the following days the world chess masters will have serval matches with the young learners of chess at many primary schools or rather instruct them, in an attempt to increase and expand their interest. (Translated by Yang Lifu, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei