On March 1, the China Weiqi Association issued the "Opinions on matters related to the Trial Implementation of amateur 8-dan levels in the Go industry", confirming that amateur 8-dan levels will be set. From the original maximum only amateur 7 dan and "honor 8 dan" to the addition of amateur 8 dan, and then to appropriately expand the scope of amateur 7 dan and 6 dan certificates, amateur chess players also have a stage to impact higher honors.
Coincidentally, the letter has just been announced, and the "Evening News Cup" National Amateur Go Championship is about to start. From April 8th to 14th, the 35th "Evening News Cup" will be held in Kaifeng, Henan, and the first amateur Go 8-dan will appear on this "Evening News Cup". It is really very good news for amateur chess players who are about to participate in the "Evening News Cup".
In 1992, the "Chinese Go Amateur Duan System" issued by the Chinese Weiqi Association set up an amateur duan rank system of 1 to 7 dan, which played a positive role in the popularization and development of the Go industry. In the past 30 years, there have been many amateur Go masters in the Chinese chess world, which has also attracted more and more teenagers to learn Go.
With the increasing popularity of amateur Go, in order to further improve the national fitness event activity system in the Go industry, mobilize the enthusiasm of the majority of Go enthusiasts, especially young people, to learn Go, expand their development space, and stimulate the vitality of Go education and training institutions, the Chinese Weiqi Association also decided to adjust the existing dan position.
In the relevant letter of the China Weiqi Association, it is written that according to the "National "14th Five-Year Plan" Sports Plan, which proposes the goal of "giving full play to the main role of the national single sports association and striving to exceed 100 million participants in projects that the masses like to hear about such as Go", the China Weiqi Association will gradually establish an amateur rank system of 1 to 8 dan in the Weiqi industry from March 2022, and appropriately expand the scope of amateur 7 and 6 certificates.
Such a reform is certainly a good thing for amateur chess players. First of all, this expands the space for chess players to rise, after many chess players have been promoted to amateur 5 stages, they must participate in national competitions to continue to promote, which limits the space for amateur chess players to develop. Secondly, after the increase in dan position, it has also set a higher goal for many amateur masters, which is conducive to promoting the development of amateur Go to a higher level.
Amateur Go will be added 8 dans, and the "Evening News Cup" will once again become the first person to eat crabs. According to the current competition schedule, the winner of the 35th "Evening News Cup" National Amateur Go Championship, which starts on April 8, will also officially become the first amateur 8-dan in the country.
"In 1988, when the first Evening News Cup was held, our chess players became the first 10 amateur 6-dan players in the country, and in 1993, Sun Yiguo became the first amateur 7-dan in the country, and this time it caught up with the addition of the new amateur 8-dan, and the Evening News Cup, which has insisted on 35 years, has always actively promoted the development of amateur Go." Lu Huimin, honorary president of the Evening News Branch of the China Sports Journalists Association and president of the Beijing Sports Journalists Association, said.
Founded in 1988, the "Evening News Cup" National Amateur Go Championship has been successfully held for 34 sessions so far, and is the first and only amateur Go tournament approved by the State General Administration of Sport. After years of accumulation and development, the "Evening News Cup" has become the most influential event in the national amateur Go industry, and it is also known as the "cradle of professional chess players", and world champions such as Gu Li, Tang Weixing, zhou Ruiyang have stood out from this event and gradually embarked on a higher and broader stage.