In 2001, a girl named Zhu Chen instantly sparked a heated discussion, in that year's Olympic chess competition, tsinghua graduated and won the world championship, but what made her "famous" was not this gold medal, but she subsequently married a Qatari prince.
You know, at that time, the Network was far less developed than it is today, and the news of her marriage could trigger such a heat, and the influence was evident. However, in the face of the situation that talented women on the mainland are marrying far away, the outside world has not given blessings, but has shown a bad side.
Originally, although Zhu Chen was married to a prince, he must be "rich and noble" in the future, but according to Qatari customs, the country's men have the right to please several wives. In other words, Zhu Chen's married life is likely to face the situation of "polygamy".
Today, I will talk to you about how Zhu Chen, who was married 21 years ago, is now doing? And did her lover give her complete happiness as he had sworn in?
Zhu Chen was born in 1976 to a family of intellectuals in Wenzhou, where her mother was a teacher at a middle school and her father was an engineer in a construction company. However, unlike those conventional intellectuals, Zhu Chen did not face too much pressure from an early age, but mainly focused on interest education.
When Zhu Chen was 6 years old, she stared at a black-and-white chess board and exquisite statues in front of her father, and later she learned that this "toy" was called chess, and so far, this sport has also left a strong mark in Zhu Chen's life.
As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher, and Zhu Chen did show talent in the field of chess very early. In the face of complex rules and tactics, she often only takes a few hours to master, and this also allows parents to see the direction of raising their daughters in the future, with the "completion" of the specially modified practice room for Zhu Chen, she also officially embarked on the road to becoming a professional chess player.
In 1988, under the recommendation of his teacher, the 12-year-old Zhu Chen participated in the chess junior competition that year, in fact, before that, Zhu Chen was already famous in the field. Before she was 10 years old, she had competed in various provincial or national competitions, and she had also won very high places.
However, before participating in this competition, including Zhu Chen's instructors, they did not have too many expectations. On the one hand, this time competing with her are excellent chess players from all over the world, although Zhu Chen is talented, but chess is also an imported product, so foreign chess players, whether it is cultural influence or the professionalism of training, are stronger than Zhu Chen.
On the other hand, the 12-year-old age group of this competition is temporarily added, the purpose is to promote children's education, and because of this, although it is a children's group, few children participate, and zhu Chen will face the vast majority of young people around 15 years old.
However, this game that no one is optimistic about can be said to have made Zhu Chen famous, after experiencing many thrilling "fights", she strongly took the championship into her pocket, and at the same time, became the second player in the field of continental chess to win the world championship.
At the age of 12, zhu Chen's starting point can be said to be very high, but she did not become complacent with many "injured Zhongyong" athletes, but became more and more determined on this path, and has been constantly improving her skills. Because of this, in the World Junior Competition held in 1994, she won the championship again with the advantage of "crushing".
When referring to Zhu Chen, experts from the World Chess Federation once said: Compared with other players, Zhu Chen's skills do not belong to any genre, it is completely imaginative, and this may be the reason why she can repeatedly cut through thorns and thorns and cut those famous players off the horse.
In 1995, with his high popularity and strength, Zhu Chen was sent to the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University. Before that, although Zhu Chen would spend a lot of time on the chessboard, in fact, her cultural class did not fall behind, in addition to the top chess skills, she also showed extremely amazing achievements in the field of literary creation, and the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University was able to pick him, which was also based on this.
After graduating from university, Zhu Chen devoted herself to the field of chess, and in 2001, she won the heaviest Olympic gold medal in her life. Talking about this, some friends may have questions, wasn't Zhu Chen married in 2001? But according to her personality of focusing on her own field, how could she have time to get to know her husband, Prince Al of Qatar? Could it be a flash marriage?
In fact, although Zhu Chen received a Western-style education that accompanied chess from childhood, she was a very traditional Chinese woman, and how could she marry casually when she treated lifelong events? In fact, as early as 1994, before he was admitted to Tsinghua University, Zhu Chen knew Al.
We have talked before, in this year, Zhu Chen participated in the World Youth Competition, and Al has another identity in addition to the prince, he is also a highly acclaimed chess player. Chess tournaments and athletics and other events are not the same, because there is no difference in intelligence between men and women, so the participants in the competition are mixed and matched, judging the opponent according to the points, and it is this rule that gives Al and Zhu Chen the opportunity to meet.
On the day of the game, perhaps it was too easy to pass the level, causing Zhu Chen to be distracted in the match with Al, so Al seized the opportunity and used a "dangerous move" at the last moment to nibble a victory with difficulty. You know, Zhu Chen has no defeat before, so in the face of this player who can defeat himself in the final, Zhu Chen can't help but have a little more interest.
In this way, Zhu Chen and Al gradually became partners on the road to progress, and as Zhu Chen entered the campus, the Prince of Qatar visited Beijing from time to time, and the two became friends who talked about everything in life, because they had the same views on many things, their personalities were also complementary, and the seeds of love were quietly planted in the hearts of the two young people.
However, in the face of the daughter's found a "foreign" friend, Zhu Chen's family can be said to be very opposed, not to mention that Qatar is located in the Arabian Peninsula, and the perennial war is likely to affect Zhu Chen's security, saying that the country's allowing polygamy is contrary to the traditional values of the mainland. Not to mention that Al is still a prince of Qatar, and his mother, who has fully studied Chinese history, once said that there are money, power, and "policies", how can Al not be troubled?
However, at this time, Zhu Chen already had a belonging, so in the face of her family's obstruction and opposition, she still married Al without hesitation, and after changing her nationality, she married far away to Qatar, a country that was very unfamiliar to the mainland people.
Perhaps because the information at that time was not developed enough, or perhaps Zhu Chen consciously reduced the number of times she appeared, in short, since she became Al's wife, it was difficult to hear from her. However, the incident of Tsinghua's talented daughter marrying Qatar itself is very worthy of speculation, and Zhu Chen does not show her face, so the speculation about her living conditions has gradually become "bizarre".
Some people say that as soon as Al returned to China, he imprisoned Zhu Chen in the palace, neither allowing her to go out nor allow her to socialize; and even some people speculated that Zhu Chen not only suffered serious domestic violence in Qatar, but her husband was even more troubled, and completely regarded the wife that ming media was marrying as an accessory.
With the passage of time, although the heat on Zhu Chen's body gradually decreased, people's speculation about her never stopped, until she suddenly returned to China in 2008, zhu Chen showed her real life situation to the world.
This year, because the chess tournament was held in China, Zhu Chen and Al came to Beijing together and participated in the competition as a member of the Qingdao team. However, compared with being away from the chess world for too long, Zhu Chen's level has declined to a large extent, and the public is more concerned about whether she is living well or not, of course, the intimate gesture of holding hands with Al in public many times, as well as a very cute mixed-race daughter, has also put an end to the speculation of Zhu Chen.
It turned out that although her husband Al was a Qatari prince, he was highly educated, not at all the "feudal landlord" imagined by people, in the years of marriage to Zhu Chen, she had never had a "concubine" behavior, at the same time, Al's care and love for the child also let the outside world see a loving father image who was willing to give up his life's hobby for his wife. On the other hand, Zhu Chen said in an interview at the time that she just wanted to leave the chess world temporarily, because for her, family harmony and children are the most important things at present.
From this point of view, Zhu Chenyuan married Qatar not only did not suffer as the outside world speculated, but lived a relatively happy life. Nowadays, she has become a mother of 2 children, but from another point of view, Zhu Chen changed her nationality before marrying Al, and according to later interviews with him, because she only knows English and is not familiar with the local language of Qatar, this makes it difficult for her to have few friends in the local area and it is even more difficult to integrate into Qatari life. Therefore, even though Zhu Chen has been married for more than 20 years, he is still in a relatively closed and lonely state of life.
I have to say that although Zhu Chen has a family, the price of all this is exchanged for changing her nationality and being lonely, and because of this, it is difficult for the outside world to judge whether it is worth it for her "happy life".