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Chongqing News

The National Championship Invitational Tournament of Draughts kicks off in Liangjiang New Area

2021-11-02 10:00:44

The opening ceremony of 2021 “Liangjiang Cup” National Championship Invitational Tournament of Draughts kicked off in Liangjiang New Area.

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- On October 29, the opening ceremony of the 2021 “Liangjiang Cup” National Championship Invitational Tournament of Draughts was held in Liangjiang New Area. It invites the top 10 checkers players in China to gather together from October 29 to November 1. The final champion will be decided through five rounds of group matches and two rounds of finals.

The invitational tournament is jointly sponsored by the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, Chinese Draughts Association, Chongqing Sports Bureau and Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Management Committee, and hosted by Liangjiang New Area Xiangshuwan Primary School.

The young contestants at the competition site were very calm.

Huang Bo, director of the Chongqing Chess and Card Management Center, said that Liangjiang New Area has taken draughts as a key development project, and has done a lot of work in project promotion, personnel training, event holding, atmosphere creation, and so on, while achieving remarkable results. The gathering of elites in this competition is conducive to the promotion of draughts in Chongqing, expand the coverage of draughts, and play a positive role in improving the competitive level of draughts in Chongqing, and he wished the competition a complete success.

Competition site.

It is learned that the draughts took root in Chongqing in 2009. After years of development, it has laid a good mass foundation and achieved remarkable results. In this year’s 6th Games, Liangjiang New Area team topped the gold medal list in the draughts competition. As the first national draughts-featured primary school in Liangjiang New Area, Xiangshuwan Primary School in Liangjiang New Area has successfully held the 2019 National Draughts-featured School Competition (Chongqing). Now, draughts playing has become one of the key sports in the School. (Translated by Wang Junli, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei