Interview with nine-time Chinese Women's Chess Champion
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
Here is an interesting interview from China with a talented chess player. Can you guess who we are talking about? She happens to be nine-time Chinese Women's chess champion Liu Shilan.
Liu Shilan (born January 24, 1962) holds the WGM title, which she received in 1982. She was the first Chinese woman who received this title from FIDE. She was nine-time China National Women's Champion. There is more to her biography.
Liu Shilan at a press interview
She said several interesting things in a press interview recently on the sidelines of the Shenzhen Women's Chess Grand Prix.
She says, "In 1992 I moved to Shenzhen and there were only three kids who were interested in playing chess. People didn’t know anything about chess so I was personally coming to every director of the school, every director of kindergarten asking to include chess lesson into the school program, trying to convince them at least to try. I was a deputy of the parliament in Shenzhen at that moment, so of course this status and my chess successes helped me to speak with people and encourage them. They trusted me and nowadays we have 163 schools which opened chess lessons."
Read the full interview at the official website.
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2nd Danzhou GM Chess Tournament begins with top Chinese players
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If you're a fan of Chinese chess players then get set to follow the 2nd Danzhou GM Chess Tournament that will take place in Danzhou, Hainan, China from May 14 to 24. It is a 9-game round robin event, with top 10 Chinese players competing. The time control is 90 minutes for the whole game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. Draw offer is not allowed before 30th move. Women's World Champion Hou Yifan is also participating in the tournament. Last year the tournament was won by GM Bu Xiangzhi. You can follow Live games too. Making up the average Elo of 2659 are the following players:
- Wang Hao 2732
- Wang Yue 2714
- Ding Liren 2664
- Bu Xiangzhi 2662
- Ni Hua 2661
- Li Chao B 2656
- Yu Yangyi 2646
- Zhou Jianchao 2636
- Hou Yifan 2612
- Zhou Weiqi 2610
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Women's chess masters in China R5: Hou Yifan leads
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
The hottest chess action this week is happening not just at the US National Chess Championships and the Russian Team Championships but also at the first women's chess masters event tucked away in the nice town of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, in China. The event is being held from April 16 to April 24 (free day on April 21).
Ten top Chinese women grandmasters, including Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, are participating. The event is a round robin with time controls of 90 minutes for the entire game plus a 30 second increment for each move. Draw offers are only allowed with the permission of the chief arbiter and will only be granted in theoretically drawn positions. You can access the official website here if you're cool with some Chinese.
In solid form: GM Hou Yifan
The news after five rounds is that Hou Yifan is in sole lead after a nice win over Ju Wenjun. She leads with four out of five rounds. Closely following her are fourth seed WGM Shen Yang and ninth seed WGM Gu Xiaobing with 3.5 points each.
Here are some nice games. Enjoy.
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Russia vs. China Team chess event: China wins slow games section
 Nadezhda Kosintseva: All for Russia
Hello Everyone,
The 7th China vs Russia Chess Match is taking place from August 4th-15th, 2010 in Yinzhou, Ningbo, China. These matches have taken place between Russia and China since 2001. The first, in 2001 was in Shanghai, the next, in 2004 in Moscow, in 2006 in Argun, 2007 in Nizhni Novgorod, 2008 in Ningbo, and in 2009 in Sochi. China beat Russia in the slow games section during the 7th China-Russia match. Five rounds were played in the section. The Chinese team was led by captain Ni Hua. Bu Xiangzhi scored an incredible 2928 performance. Ju Wenjun led the women's section with a 2693 performance.
The Chinese team defeated the Russians by an overall score of 27-23 in the slow games match up. A series of rapid games and then blitz games will take place next.
You can find more details from the official website here in Chinese or check out a news report in English here.
Here is a nice game by Nadezhda Kosintseva against Huang Qian. You can run the moves in our pgnplayer or watch in flash below.
PGN: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. f4 e6 8. g4 Qc7 9. Bg2 Nd5 10. Ne4 Be7 11. O-O O-O 12. c4 N5b6 13. b3 f6 14. Nd3 Rd8 15. Qe2 Nf8 16. Bb2 Bd7 17. Kh1 Be8 18. Rae1 Bf7 19. f5 Nbd7 20. Nf4 Re8 21. fxe6 Nxe6 22. Nxe6 Bxe6 23. Ng5 Bf7 24. Nxf7 Bb4 25. Qxe8+ Rxe8 26. Rxe8+ Kxf7 27. Re2 Bd6 28. Be4 Bf4 29. Bf5 Nf8 30. Rfe1 b6 31. b4 g6 32. Be4 Nd7 33. a3 Bd6 34. Rf1 Bf8 35. c5 bxc5 36. dxc5 h6 37. Bc2 Kg7 38. Re6 a5 39. Bxf6+ Nxf6 40. Rexf6 Be7 41. Rxg6+ Kh8 42. Rxh6+ Kg8 43. Rg6+ Kh8 44. Rf5 1-0
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7th China vs Russia Team Chess Tournament begins
 Opening ceremony full of Russian and Chinese music presentations.
Hello Everyone,
The China-Russia Team Chess Tournament is being held in Yinzhou, Ningbo, China from August 14-15, 2010. This team tournament began in 2001 and was first held in Shanghai.
All members of each team play all members of the other team once with games starting on August 5. The time control will be 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes to the end of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. You can watch the live games here. The site is in Chinese though. From August 11 - 13 three-day rapid matches would be held.
Here are the teams:
Russia ------------
Men: Vladimir Malakhov GM 2732, Nikita Vitiugov GM 2722, Artyom Timofeev GM2690, Sergei Rublevsky GM 2688, Alexander Motylev GM 2685
Women: Kosintseva Nadezhda IM 2551, Natalija Pogonina WGM 2501, Valentina Gunina WGM 2462, Anastasia Bodnaruk WGM 2397, Alina Kashlinskaya WGM 2452
China ------------
Men: Wang Hao GM 2724, Wang Yue GM 2716, Bu Xiangzhi GM 2676, Zhou Jiangchao GM 2668, Ni Hua GM 2645
Women: Ju Wenjun WGM 2496, Tan Zhongyi WGM 2461, Huang Qian WGM 2447, Ding Yixin WGM 2385, Wang Yu A IM 2369
Here is a nice Ju Wenjun-Nadezhda Kosintseva game from the first round. You can run the moves in pgnplayer or watch in flash below.
PGN: 1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. Qxc4 b5 9. Qc2 Bb7 10. Bd2 Be4 11. Qc1 Bb7 12. Rd1 Nbd7 13. Ba5 Bd6 14. Nbd2 Qb8 15. Nb3 Qa7 16. Ne1 Bxg2 17. Kxg2 e5 18. Nc2 Rac8 19. Ne3 Rfe8 20. d5 g6 21. Qc2 Nb8 22. Rac1 c5 23. dxc6 Rxc6 24. Qd2 Bf8 25. Nd5 Ne4 26. Qe3 Qxe3 27. Nxe3 Bh6 28. Rxc6 Nxc6 29. Bb6 Bf8 30. Nd5 Kg7 31. Nc7 Rb8 32. Be3 Rc8 33. Nxa6 Ra8 34. Nc7 Rxa2 35. Ne8+ Kg8 36. Nd2 Nxd2 37. Rxd2 Be7 38. Rc2 Nb4 39. Rc8 h5 40. Bc1 Ra5 41. Bd2 Ra2 42. Nd6+ Kg7 43. Bxb4 1-0
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CHINA is 2 times women's world team champion!
The women's world chess championship 2009 came to its end. After a very exciting last round, where China could only achieve a draw against the outsider of the tournament, the team of Vietnam. Russia, after winning 3-1 against China-2, caught up China by match points. Ukraine after a very dramatic match by some miracle also managed to win their match against Armenia 2,5 to 1,5 and also caught up China by match points.
So 3 teams shared first place by match points - China, Russia and Ukraine, both with 12 match points. But individual team points are decisive. So China took gold with 21,5 points. Russia won silver medals with 21 points and Ukraine took bronze medals with 20,5 points. The full table of results can be found here.
The best player of the championship according to points and to the percentage was Russia's Valentina Gunina (on the photo below) with 6,5 points out of 8 (81,3%).
The best player of the championship according to perfomance was Russia's Nadezhda Kosintseva (on the photo below) with a perfomance of 2608!
Congratulations to the teams and all the players for a very interesting and hard-fought championship!
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: China, Gunina, Kosintseva, Russia, Ukraine, women's world team championship
Women's World Team Chess Championship 2009
From September 1 to September 12 the 2nd Women's World Team Chess Championship will take place in Ningbo, China. 10 of the best women's teams from around the world will take part in this prestigious event. Here is the list of the teams and participants:
Armenia:
Elina Danielyan Lilit Mkrtchyan Lilit Galoyan Nelli Aghinyan Siranush Andriasyan
China Team One:
Hou Yifan
Zhao Xue
Shen Yang
Ju Wenjun
Huang Qian
China Team Two:
Tan Zhongyi
Zhang Xiaowen
Wang Yu
Ding Yixin
Wang Xiaohui
Georgia:
Maia Chiburdanidze Nana Dzagnidze Lela Javakhisvili Maia Lomineishvili Reserve: Sopiko Khukhashvili or Salome Melia or Nino Khurtsidze
India:
Harika Dronavalli Tania Sadchev Kruttika Nadig Eesha Karavade Gomes Mary Ann
Poland:
Iweta Rajlich Jolanta Zawadzka Joanna Majdan Joanna Dworakowska Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska
Russia:
Tatiana Kosintseva Nadezhda Kosintseva Elena Tairova Marina Roman’ko Reserve: Valentina Gunina or Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
Ukraine:
Natalia Zhukova Anna Ushenina Inna Gaponenko Maria Muzychuk Natalia Zdebskaia
USA:
Irina Krush Anna Zatonskykh Rusudan Goletiani Alisa Melekhina Reserve: Tatev Abrahamian
Vietnam:
HOANG THI BAO TRAM PHAM LE THAO NGUYENHOANG THI NHU Y PHAM BICH NGOC VO THI KIM PHUNG
This should be a very interesting event and I will make sure to let you know the results as they play out.
Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: China, women's world team championship
Russia-China Annual Chess Match
From August 15 till August 24 in Dagomys (Russia), the 6th annual match between the national teams (men's and women's) of Russia and China will take place. Each team will consist of 10 players (5 men and 5 women). The players will play a Scheveningen match with 5 games with classical time control, 5 games in rapid chess and 5 games in blitz.
The Russian men's team will consist of Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Artiom Timofeev, Nikita Vitiugov and Jan Nepomniachtchi.
The Chinese men's team will consist of Wang Yue, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Zhou Jianchao and Ding Liren.
The Russian women's team will consist of Tatiana and Nadezhda Kosintseva, Elena Tairova, Marina Romanko and Valentina Gunina.
The Chinese women's team will consist of Zhao Xue, Xu Yuhua, Shen Yang, Ju Wenjun, Huang Qian.
This should be a very interesting match and I will keep you posted of the results.
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women's World Chess Champion
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Labels: China, Russia
Hou plays in China Champ
 Men and women China Chess Championships started today, May 26. There are 12 players in each group, it's a round robin system. In the open section 15-year old Hou Yifan is playing and we will keep an eye on this very talented young lady. Among women, Zhao Xue is the ELO favorite with the rating of 2531.Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion www.chessblog.com Labels: Chess Championship, China, Hou Yifan
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