Sina for twenty years
From 1998 to 2018, Sina Chess and Card Channel has gone through 20 years in the company of you, and has also witnessed the changes in China's chess and card projects in the past 20 years. From 1998 to 2008, Chinese chess ushered in two women's world champions and won four national elephant women's Olympiad championships, and in the past ten years, Sina chess and cards have also grown together with chess from simple graphic reports to special reports, to world champions and chess fans network interaction, video interview recording, and chess.
1998 - The Chinese women's team won the Olympiad Championship & Sina Chess card was officially launched
In 1998, the Chinese national elephant women's team won the Olympiad championship for the first time
In November 1998, the Chinese women's team composed of Xie Jun, Zhu Chen, Wang Lei and Wang Pin once again won the Olympic team competition and won the women's team championship, which became the prelude to the Chinese women's team to begin to rule the Olympiad. For the first time, the Chinese women's team broke through the "European encirclement" and successfully defended its title. In December of that year, Sina chess and cards were officially launched.
But to go back to the story of Sina chess and chess, it has to start from 2000.
In 2000, the special report was officially launched
In 2000, Sina featured chess tournament news
In 2000, the year of the chess competition, the 34th National Elephant Olympiad Team Competition, the Women's World Championship and the Men's World Championship were held successively. That year can be said to belong to the Chinese women's national elephant team, but also to Xie Jun.
At the 34th Chess Olympiad held in Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, the Chinese national elephant women's team composed of Xie Jun, Zhu Chen, Xu Yuhua and Wang Lei successfully defended their titles, and in the National Elephant Women's World Championships held in December, Xie Jun defeated Qin Kanying 2.5 to 1.5 to successfully defend the world championship, which was the fourth time that Xie Jun won the world championship. It was also from then on that the sina chess tournament feature was officially launched, opening a comprehensive report on the feature pictures and texts.
2001 - After chess, Zhu Chen interacted with Sina netizens
In 2001, after Zhu Chen won the world championship, he was a guest in the Sina live broadcast room
On December 14, 2001, the 2001 World Chess Championship ended in Moscow, and the Chinese chess player Zhu Chen defeated Kostenyuk 3-2 to win the championship. Zhu Chen became the ninth women's world champion and China's second world chess champion after Xie Jun. After triumphant return to China, Zhu Chen and the national team leader Lin Feng visited the Sina live broadcast room and had zero-distance exchanges with chess fans through the Internet, this time Sina chess and cards opened a new form of reporting.
In 2002, the Chinese national elephant women's team won the Olympic Championship for three consecutive years
In 2002, the 35th National Elephant Olympiad Team Competition was held in Slovenia, and the women's team of Zhonggao Elephants composed of Zhu Chen, Xu Yuhua, Wang Pin and Zhao Xue won the championship again, helping the Chinese team achieve three consecutive championships. The addition of Zhao Xue, who is only 17 years old, has also injected fresh blood into the Chinese national elephant women's team. The Chinese national elephant men's team, composed of Ye Jiangchuan, Xu Jun, Zhang Zhong, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua and Zhang Pengxiang, achieved a fifth place.
At the 36th Olympiad after a gap of two years, the Chinese national elephant women's team composed of Xie Jun, Xu Yuhua, Zhao Xue and Huang Qian once again played kai, achieving the great cause of four consecutive Olympiad championships.
2005 - China First Division League was born
In 2005, the first Chinese Chess League was featured
In 2005, the Chinese Chess League was grandly unveiled, which is also the highest level of China's professional chess league, the competition not only provides a stage for domestic high-level chess players to play, but also invites a large number of foreign chess players to join, and Chinese chess has also become the highest standard and highest level team event in the country.
2006 - "Expectant Mother" chess queen Xu Yuhua
Xu Yuhua, China's third chess queen, was a guest on Sina
On the stage of the 2006 Women's World Championships, Chinese chess player Xu Yuhua, who is pregnant with the sixth class, defeated Vietnamese chess player Huang Qingzhuang, Ukrainian chess player Ushnina, Russian chess player Kosinceva Jr., Russian chess player Kovalevskaya and Russian star Matveeva to reach the final. In the final, Xu Yuhua defeated Russian chess player Galia Mova 2.5 to become the 11th female world champion in the history of chess and the first "mother-to-be" world champion in the history of chess.
The Chinese national elephant men's team won the runner-up of the 37th Olympiad
On the stage of the 37th National Elephant Olympiad in the same year, the Chinese National Elephant Women's Team changed blood for the first time, and the Chinese National Elephant Women's Team composed of Zhao Xue, Wang Yu, Shenyang and Hou Yifan lived up to expectations and won the third place, it is worth mentioning that the talented teenager Hou Yifan was only 12 years old at the time. The Chinese national elephant men's team won the runner-up, creating the best record in the history of the Olympiad.
In 2008, the Chinese national elephant team suffered a historical low in the Olympiad, and the Chinese women's team composed of Zhao Xue, Hou Yifan, Shenyang, Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi only achieved the eighth place record, and the men's team won the seventh place. At that time, Hou Yifan, who was only 14 years old, had already taken the second stage and made his debut on the stage of the Olympiad, winning a personal bronze medal.
(To be continued)
(Elk)