2004 National Chinese Chess Individual Tournament Game Selection and Review

Author: Yang Dian (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The National Xiangqi Individual Championship was established in 1956 and has been held for 39 editions to date. It serves as a grand tournament to assess the chess skills of top players across the country. The National Individual Championship holds authoritative status in the chess world, with winning the championship, advancing to the rank of Xiangqi Master or Grandmaster, always being the highest honor pursued by players. Since the beginning of the new century, the fighting style of the individual tournament in Chinese chess has become more "modern," with diverse tactics often leading to one player emerging victorious from a complex and intertwined. This book primarily introduces 80 selected games from the 2004 National Xiangqi Individual Championship. The selected games focus on technical quality and possess a certain representativeness and breadth. To ensure the technical content, the book features comments and analyses by Xiangqi Grandmaster Tao Hanming, Xiangqi Masters Sun Zhiwei, Nie Tiwen, Zhang Xiaoping, Liang Wenbin, Ge Weipu, Zhang Mei, as well as many renowned chess commentators and experts.