The venue was at the scenic Zaolin Bay (枣林湾). The sponsors were numerous including Jiangsu Yizheng Zaolin Bay Tourism Office, Yizheng Municipal Bureau of Sports, Radio and Television, supported by Yangzhou Xiangqi Association, European Xiangqi Federation, American Xiangqi Federation, Yangtze River Delta Xiangqi Association, Shanghai Xiangqi Sports and Culture Center and Yizheng Sports Federation. The tournament main organisor was Yizheng Xiangqi Association (仪征市象棋协会).
Xiangqi has a long traditional background, the way of the game naturally gathered lots of players' wisdom. The city enjoys good popularity of the game. Even Yizheng Qingshan Primary School which is located in remote mountainous areas, yet it is the first school in Yangzhou teaching Xiangqi as special main subject, and all the 50 pupils in the school can play Xiangqi. Since 2012, Yizheng City has successfully held seven consecutive versions of the Yizheng Xiangqi International Open, which has not only been favored by top players in the domestic amateur circle, but also sought after by Xiangqi enthusiasts around the world.
"After the holding of seven tournaments, the Yizheng Xiangqi International Open has become one of top amateur Xiangqi tournaments in China." Cheng Minghong (成明宏), president of the Yizheng Xiangqi Association said that this year's tournament attracted 262 players from 16 countries and regions on four continents, "including 23 foreign Xiangqi players." Zhu Yueping (朱岳平) from Italy is the national champion of Xiangqi in Italy and the runner-up of the Shenzhen Xiangqi International Open. Another Italian player, Fang Dingliang (方定良), is an international master and had won third place in the European Xiangqi Championship.”
In addition to these foreign masters, domestic amateur masters have also been attracted. "For example, Chen Liugang (陈柳刚）is well known as China's Qi Wang of the 'three southwestern provinces', and Liu Zongze (刘宗泽) who represented Hubei Province, is one of the 'troikas' in the domestic amateur community. In addition, many top players from various provinces and cities participated too, making the level of the tournament one of the top in China." Cheng Minghong said.
Competing five times in a row, the Vietnamese guy loves Yizheng the most. Zhang Zhongjian (张忠坚）from Vietnam, is in his fifth time in Yizheng to compete. He told reporters that he used to go to school in Nanjing. "After coming to China, when I came into contact with Xiangqi, I found it particularly attractive." Zhang Zhongjian said that his master coach is Yan Zuanzhao (言缵昭), a xiangqi champion in Nanjing, "I often participate in those competitions around Nanjing when I learn Xiangqi with Teacher Yan, and I have been taking part in Yizheng competitions since 2016."
Zhang Zhongjian told reporters that in all the competitions he entered into, Yizheng's events were the most participated, even if he has now gone to Tianjin to study, this year after the resumption of the event, he still rushed to Yizheng to take part, "because Yizheng is the best place, with beautiful scenery, good environment, nice food, comfortable accommodation, so I like to come to Yizheng very much."
It is worth mentioning that in this competition, Zhang Zhongjian's master coach in person also appeared, and they staged a 'master-apprentice showdown' in the fourth round. "In the end, I still lost to my coach, but during the middle game, I have had a drawing possibility. I still can't get off the master, and I have to go back to the drawing board to practice more." Zhang Zhongjian said that although he lost the game, he is already very satisfied with his current performance, "At present, I have a 3 wins and 4 loss score in 7 rounds, which is already very good, when I first participated, I didn't even get a single game of draw, but then it was better and better every time, and this time I have scored 6 points."
Zhang Zhongjian, who will go to Shanghai for a PhD course next year, said that Shanghai is closer to Yangzhou, "I will definitely come to Yizheng again next year!"
It is reported that a total of 13 rounds of games will be played in this competition, and the Xiangqi players who win the championship will exclusively enjoy a championship prize of 16,000 yuan. All competitions will end on the afternoon of the 22nd.
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来源：扬州发布
Source : 我苏网
2023年10月22日
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