Chess career
Zhao Guorong, born in 1961 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, loved to "watch chess" since childhood.
In December 1973, Harbin held the first chess competition since the "Cultural Revolution", divided into adult, middle and primary school groups, 12-year-old Zhao Guorong won the primary school group championship, he also got acquainted with the champion of the adult group of this competition - Wang Jialiang. Wang Jialiang became interested in Zhao Guorong and invited Zhao Guorong to his house to play chess, and since then, Zhao Guorong has become a regular visitor to Wang Jialiang's family.
In the 1974 national competition, 13-year-old Zhao Guorong joined the senior group competition, which was his first entry into the chess world.
The 1976 National Chess Tournament added a team competition and stipulated that there were four players in each team, the fourth of which had to be a junior chess player. In this way, Zhao Guorong became the fourth representative of the Heilongjiang team, and the Heilongjiang team composed of Wang Jialiang, Sun Zhiwei and Sun Tierui won the final right in the national chess preliminary tournament, but due to the death of Chairman Mao that year, the original national chess final could not be carried out.
Through more than a year of formal training, Zhao Guorong participated in the 1978 Northeast Three Provinces Chess Invitational Tournament in Tongliao City, Jilin Province, and the participants were Liaoning Zhao Qingge, Guo Changshun, Jilin Liang Wenbin, Cao Lin, Heilongjiang Wang Jialiang, Sun Zhiwei, except for liaoning master Meng Liguo, who did not participate for special reasons, almost all the chess masters of the three northeastern provinces at that time were present, and the young Zhao Guorong won the championship with excellent results of 10 wins, 1 and 1 loss.
In the 1980 National League, Zhao Guorong started from the second group and successfully advanced to the first group, and in the same year, he was promoted to the first division, and won the championship with an unbeaten record of 10 wins and 3 draws in the invitational tournaments of the three provinces and cities. In the 1983 National Individual Competition, Zhao Guorong broke into the top six and ranked among the national players.
In the following ten years, Zhao Guorong represented Heilongjiang in the team competition and won the Asian team championship on behalf of the Chinese team, winning glory for the country. Finally, he won the individual crown in the 1990 National Individual Competition, completing the lifelong vision of his teacher Wang Jialiang.
In the early and mid-80s, Zhao Guorong's cannon layout research is comprehensive, many variants are studied very thoroughly, but other types of layout are used less, with the increase in participation in the competition, the immortal guidance, flying phase game has gradually become his scoring layout, after which Zhao Guorong is more individual competition several times, in 1999 and folded the "Five Sheep Cup" laurel, familiar chess fans may know that the Five Sheep Cup tournament is a "national championship invitational tournament", can participate must be to win the national championship (there is an exception, when Lü Qin has not yet won the championship, He once represented Yang Guanxuan in the Five Sheep Cup), so he was able to win the championship on the Five Sheep Cup, and was known as the "King of Kings".
Zhao Guorong fought fiercely against Lü Qin
Moments of excitement
In October 1990, from the West Lake to call a long distance, said that the national individual competition has been fought to the 12th round, Zhao Guorong rode a dust, even if the last round lost is also the champion, hearing the news, Wang Jialiang excited and sleepless, since the 1956 national individual competition, Wang Jialiang won three runners-up, Zhao Guorong won twice, but always and the championship has no chance, now Zhao Guorong won the championship is finally the common wish of the master and apprentice, Zhao Guorong inherited the "Northeast Tiger" The title of chess seems to show the strong strength of the Heilongjiang chess world to the chess world, and in the same year, Heilongjiang also won the national team championship, and it is still Zhao Guorong who sits in one.
Fight against the "aliens"
Chess style
Zhao Guorong's chess style inherits Wang Jialiang's bold axe, and on this basis, it is more thick and delicate, not only can be in complex plate and opponent melee combat, exert a body of external skills, but also endure long-term battle, deep and subtle, is a name "both the north and the south are long in one". Zhao Guorong has won many championships, the author does not want to count them one by one, in terms of the quality of the chess game, Zhao Guorong's chess is magnificent, upright and solid, has a dignified and upright wind, attacks quickly and accurately, does not live up to its "Northeast Tiger" name, defense or stalemate, and can walk idly, the so-called "I have a tiger in my heart, sniffing roses." " is the most appropriate description.
The author is currently updating the "Hu Ronghua Li Laiqun War" series of game videos, the full set of 94 games, after which I will also bring chess players from all factions, Zhao Guorong as a national champion will naturally not be ignored by the author, so stay tuned.
What do you think Zhao Guorong's chess style is, this Famous Siberian Tiger who became famous in the 1980s and 1990s and is still active in the chess world today, what do you want to say, welcome to discuss.