It is understood that Arab men can marry several wives, which is the yearning of the majority of male compatriots.
There is a rumor on the Internet that it is common for Arab men to live passionately 5 times a day between the ages of 20 and 40; By age 50 it may drop to 4 times; 50 to 60 years old, three or four times a day; After the age of 60, it may be about 3 times a day.
This statistic may be exaggerated, but arab men are indeed very capable of that aspect, and native Arab men can indeed marry multiple wives to satisfy their super "sexual" desires.
And even so, there is such a Chinese woman who dares to marry an Arab man, and this person is The Chinese "chess queen" Zhu Chen.
Now 22 years later, how many wives is Zhu Chen his husband?)
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From contact with chess to world champion, entering Tsinghua University
Zhu Chen was born in 1976 to an intellectual family in Wenzhou, known as the "City of Chess", the son of a chemistry engineer and a mother of a secondary school teacher.
She also has an older sister who follows her father's surname, and she follows her mother's surname.
Zhu Chen's family photo
When he was a child, 7-year-old Zhu Chen was fascinated by the shape of chess and began to contact chess, and his father also paid attention to cultivating Zhu Chen's interest after seeing it.
In the 1980s, there were very few people who studied chess at that time, and there was not much information about chess. In order to find the information, Zhu Chen's parents set up a library card, rummaged through the sea of books about chess, and finally found a "Principle of Chess Opening".
In order to facilitate the teaching of Zhu Chen, Mom and Dad began to take turns copying day and night.
With the encouragement of his father, for Zhu Chen chess is like Alibaba's sesame opening the door, opening an unusual "chess" encounter life.
When she was 8 years old, her father found Huang Xiwen to teach her, and later studied under the chess grandmaster Ye Rongguang.
In 1988, at the age of 12, Zhu Chen participated in the World Chess Championship in Romania and won the 12-year-old women's division, the first world champion of continental chess.
At the age of 14 and 16, he won the Chinese women's B and A championships respectively.
Since then, Zhu Chen's chess career has been like a hanging, cutting thorns and thorns, invincible, and killing all sides.
Zhu Chen, 18, won the World Junior Women's Championship and contributed to China's bronze medal in the women's team event at the Olympic Games.
This won her the opportunity to enter Tsinghua University.
In September 1995, Zhu Chen was recruited into the Department of Chinese of Tsinghua University as a special student. At the beginning, this was also my mother's proposal, hoping that she could broaden her horizons.
In 1996, she won the World Junior Women's Championship again and broke the world youth championship record with a 92.3% win rate. In the same year, she and her team won the silver medal for the first time in the Olympic team competition, and she also won the gold medal in the individual stage.
In 1998, she competed again in the Olympic Games and won the honorary throne of the first Olympic team women's championship in the history of Chinese chess.
In 2000, she led the team to win the Olympic Team Women's Championship again.
However, Zhu Chen has been training and competing outside for many years, and often feels lonely.
She also often writes letters to her parents and will be flattering. Write to the father to drop the father's surname "Zhu Chen", to the mother to write the drop of the "Zhu Chen".
But after all, it takes a long time to write a letter before she can reply, and she also needs the love of the people around her.
And inadvertently, that person appeared.
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Meet the husband of qatari national chess player, love unexpectedly
In 1994, Zhu Chen and her husband, Al Mohammed, met at an international competition in Malaysia.
In that match, Zhu Chen won several chess masters in succession, but did not take him to heart in the match against Al. Perhaps because she was too light on the enemy, Zhu Chen lost in the game, which made her very frustrated.
The night before Zhu Chen took off the Asian women's youth championship, Mohammed sat alone by the pool after losing the game. At this moment, Zhu Chen was sitting not far behind Muhammad and watching him quietly.
Muhammad's melancholy expression deeply touched Zhu Chen's heart.
At the age of 18, it was the age when the love sinus first opened, and in that game, two people sparked.
When they meet again, the relationship between the two people also changes. Zhu Chen's lonely heart was warmed by Muhammad's concern.
Love, is such an unexpected encounter.
However, their love has also been strongly opposed by the families of both sides.
The first is the problem of distance, Qatar is thousands of miles apart, as parents certainly do not want Zhu Chen to marry far away.
More importantly, Qatar is a polygamous country. In the 1990s, China experienced reform and opening up and rapid development, allowing daughters to return to the feudal society of three wives and four concubines, and as parents would certainly not agree.
They also don't want to see their daughters wearing black clothes and veils all day to go out.
Mohammed's side was also opposed by his family.
Al Mohammed had a high reputation in Qatar, when he was the only Grandmaster of Chess in Qatar and was named "the best player of the 20th century in the Arab countries".
Moreover, their family is rich in assets and is related to the Qatari royal family. In their eyes, Zhu Chen may just be a mediocre Chinese girl who plays chess very well.
Nowadays, Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is owned by the Qatari royal family, and it is a casual thing to see Messi.
Mohammed and Messi
But in Muhammad's eyes, the gods were her everything.
In their twenties, they loved passionately and loving passionately.
As I said in the interview, "If love comes, love, because love is not often patronized." Some fates are missed forever. But what love really is is hard to say. ”
The distance was long, the separation was long, and they just called. Zhu Chen later recalled that in those years, their international telephone bills were enough to buy a house in Beijing.
And so, in 2000, after 6 years of acquaintance, they got married.
It caused a huge sensation at the time.
Can she still represent China?
Zhu Chen was still the proud son of the Chinese chess world at that time, and her past achievements made people look forward to marrying a foreigner, which in the eyes of the media and the public meant betrayal.
Fortunately, Zhu Chen withstood the pressure, continued her brilliant record, and also created history.
In 2001, she won the women's chess world championship and became the ninth women's world champion, achieving a grand slam, and collecting the world champions of the junior, junior and senior categories.
In 2002 she competed in the Fidega, eliminating men's world champion Bonomamuv.
This is the first time that a women's world champion has eliminated a men's active world champion in an official competition!
In 2006, at the age of 30, he made a difficult choice: to give up his Chinese nationality for love and join Qatar
However, after the glorious period of career has passed, we will also face real life.
Although the two have been married, they have been separated for a long time. Long-term separation will inevitably affect their married life, so how should they choose?
This issue must have been discussed when they decided to get married, but it had not been decided until 2006.
Mohammed also made an effort, joining Jiangsu in 2005. However, after all, the husband is a relative of the Qatari royal family and it is impossible to renounce Qatari citizenship.
Moreover, because the two were away for a long time, the daughter could not take care of it, and Zhu Chen was also full of guilt.
In this way, in 2006, Zhu Chen finally decided to renounce Chinese citizenship and join Qatar.
"I was a believer in love, met my husband, and decided to be with him.
We knew each other six years later, and then we had children four years later, almost a decade later.
We have to make a choice. Either I come to Qatar or he comes to China, which may be an option for both of us.
It would have been smoother for him to stay in Qatar, and I came over. ”
At that time, this decision was insulted by various media and criticized by netizens.
Zhu Chen also explained,
"My peak period is over, and instead of delaying the opportunities of my juniors, I would like to retire and take better care of my family."
Even after explanation, just as the general public insulted and slandered Liu Xiang, who retired from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhu Chen was still subjected to various insults.
However, with the passage of time, the spiritual life slowly caught up with people's material life, and people began to slowly understand Zhu Chen and respect his choice.
About Zhu Chen's husband married several wives, that is one, only Zhu Chen.
Zhu Chen said in an interview: "When I first got married, my husband and I had an exchange, and he said at the time that it was difficult to be exactly the same for two people, so he would not marry two wives. ”
Unlike men in the Chinese feudal society period who could have three wives and four concubines, Arab men must treat 4 wives completely equally, without the difference between long houses, second rooms, three rooms and so on.
For example, if you buy a house for your eldest wife, you must also buy a house of equal value for your second wife.
The same place is that marrying a wife is very expensive, marrying a wife hundreds of thousands, if it is 4 wives, the bride price must be millions.
Moreover, in some Arab countries, there is a serious imbalance between men and women, with more men than women.
Therefore, the local people who can really marry multiple wives are still a few people, and generally only the patents of rich and noble families.
Zhu Chen's husband has a rich family and is a relative of the Qatari royal family. However, he gave up the life of three wives and four concubines that many male compatriots aspired to.
I think this should be more out of respect for Zhu Chen.
Today, 22 years later, they are still one or two.
By the way, they also have two more daughters.
The eldest daughter loves tennis, and they do not obstruct and force them to play chess.
Husbands like to collect luxury cars, and they also occasionally go out to travel together, so that life makes them feel at ease.
Muhammad always had great respect for Zhu Chen, allowing her to go out and compete or do what she liked.
In 2018, Zhu Chen became FIDE's finance officer, while Mohammed became fides head of FIDE's international department, and the two were busy with chess work.
Now that the two have been married for 22 years, Zhu Chen has still developed that kind of intellectual elegance and continues to contribute to the cause of chess.