At the 2017 Asian International Drafts Championship held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Guan Xinyue, a student from Nantong Tianshengang Primary School who represented China in the competition, won the regular season championship in the women's 9-year-old slow chess group! Previously, she also won the runner-up in the fast chess competition in this group!
△Guan Xinyue in the game
In addition, Guan Xinyue also achieved good results in the drafts preliminaries of the 13th National Games Mass Competition and the 2017 National Drafts Level Competition (Jiangsu Division), representing Jiangsu to participate in the National Games in Tianjin. Will be in the finals. Guan Xinyue's Tianshenggang Primary School also won the first place in the group competition in the Jiangsu Division. All 14 contestants won the individual first prize. Five of them entered the top eight for women and three entered the top eight for men.
Chen Hua serves as the deputy chief referee of this competition. As the vice chairman of the Municipal Chess Association and the head of the Municipal Women and Children Education Activity Center, he has actively carried out activities to care for left-behind children and send education to the countryside since 2012. A special international checkers course was opened at Tianshenggang Primary School, and a team of coaches was formed to arrange club activities every week and organize school team training. With continuous accumulation and hard work, all children at Tianshengang Primary School can play chess, and many of them have won provincial and national competition championships for many times. For two consecutive years, students have been selected into the Chinese team to compete in the Asian International Drafts Championship.
△Award-winning photos
Checks, an ancient board game, is also one of the most popular intellectual games. It has existed as far back as the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, and modern draughts was finalized in the 12th century. International draughts evolved from the national draughts of various countries. It has a long history. According to the research of historians, checkers originated from some countries and regions such as ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, and ancient Greece. In the Louvre Museum in France, there is a mural of a lion and an antelope playing checkers. However, due to different academic views, archaeologists are still unable to accurately infer the origin and spread of ancient checkers.
The last blitz chess competition will be held tomorrow, and we look forward to another good result for little Xinyue!