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Tan Zhongyi meditated during the game, and she always stressed the need to keep a normal mind, which gave her enough resilience and stability in the game.
Everyone will encounter a node moment in life, and the coronation battle in 2017 and the defending battle in 2018 are two important node moments in Tan Zhongyi's life journey. Node moments are more attention-grabbing, but more important stories and details are outside the nodes.
Before the game, Tan Zhongyi prepared for the game every day at her home in Loquat Mountain Main Street in Yuzhong District. Recently, our reporter went to visit and conducted an exclusive interview with her, bringing you her story outside the chessboard.
In March 2017, Tan Zhongyi, a 25-year-old sister from Chongqing, won the Women's World Chess Championship, becoming the first chess queen in Chongqing and the fifth chess queen in China. Today, a year later, Tan Zhongyi will usher in a defensive battle, and the challenger is Shanghai's famous Ju Wenjun.
The father and daughter are talented and determined to be professional chess players
Every day, Tan Kairong would watch her daughter train and prepare meals. Daughter Tan Zhongyi is already a chess queen and will turn 27 at the end of the month, but in the eyes of her father, "she is still a child".
Tan Zhongyi's grandfather loved to play Chinese chess, so he influenced Tan Zhongyi's father, Tan Kairong. Tan Kairong has some talent in chess, all relying on self-study, much better than the classmates and colleagues around him. In junior high school, Tan Kairong challenged the high school with the first place in the junior high school, and finally won the second place, and received a chess game as a reward. After work, Tan Kairong often goes to the chess academy located at the intersection of the two roads, orders a cup of tea, and plays chess with chess friends. "I'm really passionate about playing chess."
Tan Kairong's passion for playing chess eventually affected Tan Zhongyi, who was also pleasantly surprised to discover his daughter's talent. "She started playing checkers when she was 3 and a half years old, and then I would play with her and found that if I didn't pay attention, I would lose to her!" At the age of 5 and a half, Tan Kairong led Tan Zhongyi to the Chongqing Chess Academy to learn chess, and further discovered her daughter's talent, "At that time, boys of the same age as her could not play her, and she could even walk out of some tricks that she had not learned, and the inspiration was very good." After studying at the chess academy for 2 months, Tan Zhongyi finished fourth in the Chongqing Seedling Cup competition. That time, tan Kairong's plan for his daughter was completely strengthened - taking the road of professional chess players.
In order to help Tan Zhongyi improve, Tan Kairong, who had never played chess before, also learned from his daughter from scratch and played chess with her daughter. Tan Zhongyi has always liked to play chess, but as a child, she has a playful nature after all, at this time Tan Kairong will take out the candy she has prepared and encourage her daughter to continue learning.
With the full support of her father, Tan Zhongyi eventually became a chess queen. At this time, as a father, he still worked eating, but the object was no longer the candy of the year. After the Spring Festival in 2018, Tan Kairong upgraded her daughter's food to prepare for the battle to defend her title. "Give the child a good stew, lose weight later, and now I can't take care of it."
Personality has a strong competitive spirit and hates failure
All top athletes have a strong heart, and Tan Zhongyi is no exception. This quiet Chongqing girl has a sharp personality.
Since childhood, Tan Zhongyi has a strong competitive spirit and hates failure. Tan Kairong recalled that Tan Zhongyi began from the contact with chess, "always want to chase others", if she loses chess, she will shed tears unwillingly, then her father will have to give comfort in time. However, Tan Zhongyi rarely loses chess, so the father is more worried that his daughter will be proud, "I usually criticize her when she is happy, and comfort her when she is sad." ”
Tan Zhongyi made her achievements relatively early, so when she became the champion of the Junior Championship in her teens, Tan Zhongyi set herself the goal of becoming a chess queen. Tan Kairong said that the daughter is somewhat stubborn, but also some tendons, the things that are identified are not very fond of looking back, which is very similar to himself, more persistent, and the target is bitten.
In Tan Kairong's eyes, this is a quality that a chess player should have.
Tan Zhongyi has been competing around since she was a child, because of her good results, her self-confidence has slowly cultivated. From 2000 to 2002, Tan Zhongyi won the World Junior Chess Championship three times. In 2000, he won the "Li Chengzhi" Cup National Junior Championship 10-year-old group championship and fast chess championship, and in October of the same year, he won the world junior championship in the 10-year-old group in Spain. In 2001, she was selected by Ye Jiangchuan to join the national team and began her professional chess career at the age of 11.
The young age was smooth sailing, but since then Tan Zhongyi has encountered a bottleneck: for a long time, Tan Zhongyi's personal best result was to win the third place in the national championship twice in 2009 and 2010, compared with young chess queen Hou Yifan, grandmaster Ju Wenjun and other chess players, Tan Zhongyi is not eye-catching. This made Tan Kairong, as a father, once confused. Tan Zhongyi has a good attitude and a firmness, and even comforts her family that she will definitely have the opportunity to become a chess queen before the age of 30.
After focusing on winning the championship, he participated in various activities and fell ill from exhaustion
Before March 2017, the Chongqing girl born in May 1991 was perhaps unfamiliar to most people, but since her victory over Ukrainian chess player Anna Muzcchuk, she has become the focus of the spotlight in the world of chess.
In Tan Zhongyi's life plan for herself, even after becoming a chess player, her life state must be consistent. After becoming a chess player, the first thing Tan Zhongyi faced was the media, recalling the time when he occupied the media headlines for a long time, Tan Zhongyi believed that his mentality was still the same, "I didn't feel any special changes." For his life and competition, Tan Zhongyi also said that he "hopes to keep a normal heart all the time."
Life after becoming a chess player is destined not to be ordinary. In the face of the swarming media, Tan Zhongyi also appeared to be overwhelmed, "After winning the championship, there were many media who wanted to come to interview, many of them foreign media, but Tan Zhongyi refused a lot and felt too tired." Tan Kairong said when recalling the situation in 2017.
Tan Zhongyi fell ill after winning the championship. In the month after winning the championship, Tan Zhongyi needed to participate in various activities, all of which were rotated around for several days in a row, "flying around with trophies, and then going home sick, resting at home for a few days before recovering." In the eyes of his father, Tan Zhongyi at that time did not expect that his life would change so much, "The child's ability to bear is not as strong as our parents, during that time, the child faced with various changes that suddenly appeared, and was not mentally prepared." ”
The mentality emphasizes the ordinary mind and becomes the weapon of her conquest
When Tan Zhongyi first started learning to play chess, she liked to wear a green skirt, "because I won the championship by wearing it, I felt that I could bring luck." "Giving yourself positive psychological hints is the habit of many chess players, from the initial belief in their green lucky skirts to now full of confidence, Tan Zhongyi has also experienced a process of gradual maturity of mentality."
Once, Tan Zhongyi was a very introverted and not very talkative child, when he first entered the national team, he saw leaders and teachers, and even dared not take the initiative to say hello. Nowadays, with the increase of age and more and more insight, Tan Zhongyi, who could not speak at that time, has been able to attend various occasions freely. "In the year after becoming a chess player, her thinking matured, she met many people, participated in many activities, and met a lot of the world, so her conversations were transformed and progressed." This is what makes his father Tan Kairong very happy.
After becoming a chess player, it also brought Great confidence to Tan Zhongyi. For the upcoming competition, Tan Zhongyi said that he is definitely confident, "based on his full preparation and confidence in his own strength." In addition, Tan Zhongyi's usual sense of normalcy has always given her the resilience and stability of the game and become her weapon for the battle.
When her daughter is growing up, Tan Kairong is also much more relaxed than before, "Now I basically don't worry about her competition, the most I can do is to talk to her about my heart." The game is mainly controlled by the child himself, and she has been improving. ”
Recently, I have been training at home and running to practice my physical fitness
Tan Zhongyi's defensive opponent is Shanghai's famous Ju Wenjun.
Both were born in 1991 and are both teammates of the national team and old rivals on the field. At the 2017 World Championships in which Tan Zhongyi finally won the championship, Ju Wenjun was defeated by Tan Zhongyi to stop the final four. Because Ju Wenjun won the women's chess grand prix in 2016, he qualified for the challenge chess, and as long as he won, he could be crowned the queen of chess.
Before the title defense, the two players also had a head-to-head match. At the 2017 National Games, Tan Zhongyi once again defeated Ju Wenjun. Talking about his old teammates and old opponents, Tan Zhongyi smiled and said that he and Ju Wenjun were already very familiar, so familiar that there was no tension in the upcoming game. Tan Zhongyi revealed that during this time, he was preparing for the battle at his home in the main street of Loquat Mountain, and the training was more to make up for his own shortcomings, "hoping to improve his realm through the confrontation." At the same time, Tan Zhongyi also pays attention to physical exercise, and the way she chooses is running.
There are few head-to-head matches, but both players are silently preparing. It is understood that in order not to let the opponent know what kind of preparation he has made, the two chess players have not shown their sharp edges, reduced the number of participants in various competitions, and have reservations in the usual games and leagues. One is rushing to the crown, one is defending the title, everything is preparing for the upcoming game.
In the future, I am already working as a coach and may study abroad
For the two chess players, the game that starts today will be an important node for each of them, but after the game, life will quickly push them forward. It is said that life is like chess, but perhaps, the more important fall is after the game.
According to the plan, the defending battle has two stations in Shanghai and Chongqing, each with five matches, of which the first round of confrontation will officially start in Shanghai on May 3. The more important second half of the five races will be held on 12 May in Kowloon Po District for nine days, officially ending on 20 May.
For the two players, regardless of the outcome of the game, they cannot rest after the game, because on May 21, the two will participate in the Chinese Chess League and continue to move forward.
In her father's eyes, her daughter has now achieved enough honors that she will turn 27 at the end of May and need to start thinking about her next step in life. "After reaching the goal, we must consider the new positioning, whether to continue to go down, or gradually start the transformation."
In fact, Tan Zhongyi has long begun to change her identity, since 2014, she has been a coach of the national team, but also the coach of the Chongqing team, but in Tan Kairong's view, female chess players as coaches also have shortcomings, "the level of male chess players is high, when the coach will be more dominant, female chess players originally have a gap with male chess players, and being a coach is the same reason." Therefore, how to go next for Tan Zhongyi, in fact, there is no clear idea at home, Tan Kairong even thought about letting her daughter study abroad.
Of course, for Tan Zhongyi and the Tan family, the most important thing at present is the upcoming defense battle. No regrets, just like the year after becoming a chess player, time will give the final answer.
Transferred from the Zhongyi Cup Chinese Chess League