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Results of "Jishi Media" North-South Confrontation In the 7th version of the 2023 "Jishi Media - Liwang Cup" Xiangqi National Championship North-South Confrontation Tournament, the South team beat the North 3-1. The South has now won 5 times against North 2 times in the series. In terms of personal records, the South team Zhao Xinxin won all his 4 games in 4 rounds, with Lu Qin 3 wins and 1 defeat, Sun Yongzheng 2 wins and 2 defeats, Xie Jing lost all his games. The North team with Hong Zhi 3 wins and 1 defeat, Wang Tianyi 2 wins and 2 defeats, Jiang Chuan 1 win and 3 defeats, Wang Yang 1 win and 3 defeats. Zhao Xinxin has been in excellent form recently, he has been crowned champion of the Pan An Weiye Cup, a winner-member of the team competition, he also came out second in the Asian Games selection. Wang Tianyi has not been in good performance since the Asian Games selection, in the north-south competition he is not in a good mood. Zhao and Wang havin...

Jishi Media - Liwang Cup : North versus South 2023 The 7th "Jishi Media（吉视传媒）- Liwang Cup（力旺杯）" Northern team versus Southern team 2023 will be held in the Cultural Square of the City of Changchun（长春市）, from July 27th to 30th. The total prize fund is 400,000 yuan, with 250,000 for the winning team, and 150,000 for the other team. The opening ceremony will be held a day earlier on Wednesday 26th. Each team consists of 4 players. The tournament format basically is for each side to take 60 minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds added for each move. If after the scheduled 4 rounds, the scores are even, there will be tie breaks of faster moves and shorter times to separate the teams. Schedule of the 4 rounds tournament : 26th : Registration and opening ceremony 27th : 1st round 28th : 2nd round 29th : 3rd round 30th : 4th round The organizers to cover the travel and accommodation expenses of the participating players. 8 Xiangqi c...

Know Yourself And Know Your Opponents Hao Jichao（郝继超）has various nicknames: Brother Belt, Social Man, Longjiang Dalang. His chess career has had many twists and turns, plenty of interesting anecdots and funny tales, including a paper strip incident with veteran Grandmaster Wan Chunlin（万春林）. In a 1st Division Xiangqi League of 26-rounds, Hao had 8 wins, 18 draws and no defeat, this amazing result led many people commented that "it seems not to come from the human brain", so there was a fierce debate about whether Hao is a human or a machine. Hao Jichao is a controversial figure indeed, he has not studied from a Xiangqi teacher proper. When as a child, he got hold and memorized two Xiangqi books, which can be regarded as learning the game more than seriously. Unlike other young and promising chess players, he was educated only up to junior high school level. Unlike most players who sit and talk and study the game in the hard way, Hao Jichao like to make new friend...

Man with a pinch of hair plays super-fast Xiangqi Deng Rujun（邓如军）is a good amateur player in the Guangxi Xiangqi circle, and recently become famous for playing ultra-rapid and blitz chess against lots of masters across the country. Deng Rujun has grown sparse hair on one side of his face thus nicknamed 'a pinch of hair'（一撮毛）or 'Brother Mao'（毛哥）, and over time, his real name was little known. Brother Mao is good at fast chess, especially three-minute, one-minute ultra-fast chess. Extreme fast and rapid reaction helped him not to fall behind in the duel with his many famous opponents, and even dominated them with advantage. It was talked about in the Xiangqi circle that Brother Mao has defeated two advanced students of Grandmaster Liu Dahua in consecutive matches (five games against Xiangqi Master Wang Xingye and three games against Xiangqi Master Zhao Ziyu), and more players will come over one after another, and the excitement is building up ahead of the confro...

Hu Ronghua, A Legendary Figure Grandmaster Hu Ronghua is a legendary figure in the history of Xiangqi - the youngest national champion at the age of 15, the oldest at age of 55, champion 14 times, and 10 times consecutive champion. This is unprecedented. Here are some anecdotes about Hu Ronghua, nicknamed "Commander Hu"（胡司令）. 1. Where did this nickname come from? It turned out that there was an old-timer in the Shanghai chess world named Xie Xiaxun（谢侠逊）, who worked as a supplement editor in a newspaper before liberation, and in the early 30s of the last century, Xie Xiaxun won the championship in a national competition, so he telegraphed the whole country in the supplement of the newspaper, proclaiming himself the Commander of Xiangqi, and then appointed leading players in different areas as army commanders and divisional commanders. It was a light hearted fun, for a while, everyone called Xie Xiaxun "Xiangqi Commander". In the mid-70s, Hu Ronghua had ...

Wu Guilin (吴贵临), Xiangqi Grandmaster in Taiwan The overlapping of times can produce a sense of excitement. Grandmaster Wu Guilin has come a long way through countless battles of the game of Xiangqi. He walked out victorious of all these, the storyline sometimes sad, sometimes full of joy. The Taiwan Qiwang (chess king) has at one time joined the Sichuan Xiangqi team, he has challenged his own ability limit ——— breaking Grandmaster Liu Dahua's Guinness record for 1 verssus 108 in simultaneous display. Wu believed that Xiangqi has no boundary, never at standstill, and always hoped to constantly improve himself. Enlightenment : Xiangqi used to develop one's intelligence From the day Wu Guilin was born, no one knew that he would become a Qiwang. "My parents were elementary school teachers, and in 1968 I was just 6 years old, the age when I was about to go to school, and I was bored at that time, I learned to play Xiangqi purely to develop my mind. I started playing ...