A legendary master in the chess world, he won the national championship at the age of 29 and won the world chess king four years later, he is Xu Tianhong

Nowadays, the chess world has entered the era led by a new generation of chess players such as Wang Tianyi, Zheng Weitong, Jiang Chuan, and Zhao Xinxin.

Among the previous generation of chess players, around the 1960 age group, many very good players were born.

Including Lü Qin, Zhao Guorong, Li Laiqun, Xu Tianhong, Tao Hanming, Yu Youhua and so on.

The protagonist of this article is Xu Tianhong, a Jiangsu grandmaster known as the "Smiling Buddha", the world champion and national champion.

Born in 1960 in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, Xu Tianhong learned chess from an early age and often sat quietly for hours just to understand the mysteries.

Xu Tianhong's chess style is stable and there are few flaws, and he won the national championship in 1989, realizing the ideal of folding the laurel before the age of 30.

In 1993, Xu Tianhong won the World Team and Individual Championship double, and at the same time, he also won the Asian Cup.

At present, Xu Tianhong is mainly responsible for administrative work, organizing events and cultivating the next generation, and he has held many traditional competitions familiar to the chess community such as Maoshan Cup, Hanxin Cup, Gaogang Cup, Zhouzhuang Cup and so on for many years in the post of vice president of Jiangsu Chess Academy.

Under the leadership of Xu Tianhong, the Jiangsu team is also full of talents, Gusu Feiying Xu Chao is extraordinarily large, the sword and axe hand Cheng Ming is extraordinarily large, Sun Yiyang is extraordinarily large, Master Wu Wei, etc., are all fighting for the Soviet army, and the results are fruitful.