Through the inheritance of thousands of years, the modern and the past meet, and the sound of black and white falling is once again sounded in the Wuhou Ancestral Hall, writing a new cultural story of Chengdu, the "chess city". Tomorrow, the 2021 Ahan Tongshan Cup China-Japan Go Fast Chess Championship Match and the 22nd Ahan Tongshan Cup China Go Fast Chess Open Will be held in Chengdu Wuhou Ancestral Hall Qunxian Hall, Huang Yunsong 7 dan and Gu Zihao 9 dan will compete for the Chinese championship, and the winner will compete with the Japanese Ahan Tongshan Cup champion Xu Jiayuan 9 dan online to start the Sino-Japanese championship matchup. At the same time, the "Jinguan Qicheng Forum" jointly launched by Chengdu Daily and Chengdu Chess Academy will also be held in Wuhou Temple, and will be explained by "Qisheng" Nie Weiping's nine-dan partner female world champion Zhang Xuan's eight-dan live hanging plate, talking about Ah Han Tongshan Cup, and "Jinguan News" Douyin will broadcast live at 14:30 for the grand event of this issue of "Jinguan Qicheng Forum".
Since 1999, when Yasuo Kiriyama, the governor of the Ahan Sect, sponsored the establishment of the Ahan Tongshan Cup Go Open Tournament in China and Japan, every year the Ahan Tongshan Cup champions of China and Japan have to compete in a match, and the competition is held in turn between China and Japan, and for 22 years, it has become a Go tournament that has been continuously developing and inheriting. As an international event with important influence, the Ahan Tongshan Cup has greatly promoted the development of Go and sports and cultural exchanges in East Asia.
The scene of the Ahan Tongshan Cup is a grand event in the chess world, every year women's chess players and amateur heroes are invited to participate, hundreds of chess players from all over the country gather together, in the context of the fast chess competition system, the sound of falling children rises and falls, whether professional or amateur, high or low, players are in the same arena to launch an attack on the final champion. In September, the first stage of the Ahan Tongshan Cup qualifiers was held in Chengdu, and 8 players advanced to the tournament, and after the match with 8 seeded chess players, they competed online. The two former champions, Huang Yunsong and Gu Zihao, defeated Yang Dingxin and Zhao Chenyu respectively to meet in the final.
Huang Yunsong once won the 17th Ahan Tongshan Cup, which won consecutive victories over "Triple Crown Champion" Tang Weixing, defending champion Fan Tingyu and Yang Dingxin, who ranked second in rank. Gu Zihao, the winner of the 20th Ahan Tongshan Cup, defeated Zhao Chenyu, who had just been promoted to the ninth dan, in the semi-finals to reach the final again. The two young talents will compete tomorrow for the chinese championship at Wuhou Temple in Chengdu, and the winner will compete against Xu Jiayuan, the winner of Japan's 28th Ahan Tongshan Cup.
Since its launch, the "Jinguan Chess City Forum" has been loved by the majority of chess fans and has become one of the important cultural exchange activities of "Chess City". Since the beginning of this year, although affected by the new crown epidemic, combined with important events such as the Southwest Chess King Tournament and the Nie Weiping Cup China-Japan-Korea Go Masters, the "Jinguan Qicheng Forum" has been presented in the form of on-site hanging chess. This time, the Ahan Tongshan Cup will also bring two heavyweight game of chess to the majority of chess fans, and the "Jinguan News" Douyin will be broadcast live to meet the regrets of many chess fans who cannot watch the scene.
The decisive battle between Huang Yunsong and Gu Zihao will be launched at 14:15 tomorrow, Nie Weiping and Zhang Xuan will be at the Wuhou Ancestral Hall in Chengdu as guests of the "Jinguan Qicheng Forum" to talk about chess, "Jinguan News" Douyin and the official Douyin of Tianyuan Go Channel will be broadcast live at 14:30 on the current issue of "Jinguan Qicheng Forum", at the same time, CCTV Sports Channel will also broadcast the match live at 14:30, and the guests of chess will be Liu Xiaoguang Jiuduan and Qiu Danyun Erduan.
The Southwest Chess King Tournament, the Nie Weiping Cup China-Japan-Korea Go Masters Tournament, and the Ah Han Tongshan Cup have been staged in Chengdu in turn this year, showing that Chengdu is playing the game of "Chess City" step by step and telling the cultural story of the world's famous city.
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