四国争霸赛吴宗翰夺冠

新加坡出现绝顶象棋高手，打平许银川及王天一，击败中国棋王蒋川，勇夺冠军。

For a very long time, the world Xiangqi arena has been the playground of the Chinese team, and during the time of such Grandmasters Hu Ronghua, Lu Qin and Xu Yinchuan, players of other countries and regions were powerless to fight back.

However, in recent years, these players have gradually begun to grow in strength, they are starting threatening the status of the Chinese team.

In many international competitions, on the podium of the winning champions, there are other national and regional teams, the most extreme is Grandmaster Wang Tianyi together with Grandmaster Zheng Weitong participating both at the same time, and their championship ambitions were sidelined!

Now it is just like reflecting the national individual competition in China, where amateur players can also win the championship. The game of Xiangqi inevitably advances, and with the changes of times players have made a lot of difference.

A top chess master now appeared in Singapore, tying with Grandmasters Xu Yinchuan and Wang Tianyi, defeating the Chinese Qi Wang (Chess King) Jiang Chuan（蒋川）, and winning the championship, he is named Wu Zonghan（吴宗翰）.

In a four-nation tournament between China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia, Singapore player Wu Zonghan played brilliantly in the final stage, defeating the Chinese Grandmaster Jiang Chuan in the endgame, and took the championship.

In this final game, Wu Zonghan played a very cold trick in the early stage of the opening, with the idea to seize the opportunity through the change of array.

Entering the middle game, the Black side did not choose to retreat, but forcibly marched the cavalry forward into battle, sacrificing the Cannon on the left wing.

Wu Zonghan was not afraid to engage battle, boldly and forcibly took the sacrificed piece, and then stood up against Jiang Chuan's fierce attack. The Red forces resisted the counter attack, bringing the situation under stable control, with advantage of majority of pieces.

Then Red with Rook, Knight and Cannon launched a final decisive attack, the two sides exchanged Knight for Knight, the Red's Rook and Cannon cooperated closely, plus there were two Pawns advancing, the Black side could not continue the game, he was helpless to resist further, Wu Zonghan triumphed and won the championship.

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Source ：狮城新闻
2021年08月25日