The 2024 Asian International Checkers Championship kicked off on April 10 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Wang Zilixuan, a sixth-grade student at Qifeng Street Primary School in Yingze District, represented the Chinese national team in the U14 women's competition, and achieved remarkable results in the three competitions of slow chess, rapid chess and blitz chess: winning the seventh place in slow chess, the runner-up in rapid chess, and the fourth place in blitz chess.
The competition was hosted by the Asian International Checkers Federation and organized by the Uzbekistan International Checkers Association, and was the highest level of international checkers competition in Asia. In 2023, Wang Zixuan will achieve good results in the International Checkers Competition of the National Mind Games, winning the fourth place in the junior women's and the team runner-up, the primary school women's runner-up in the National International Checkers Championship for primary and secondary school students, and the qualification for the Asian Championships.
Such achievements are inseparable from the strong chess education atmosphere of the school. Qifeng Street Primary School was one of the first schools in the country to incorporate chess education into the school-based curriculum. For a long time, the school has insisted on creating a characteristic chess education of "cultivating morality with chess, promoting intelligence with chess, smelting affection with chess, and cultivating character with chess", selected outstanding chess players to form clubs, and hired Wei Xinglong, a national first-class referee of international checkers, and Feng Chao, a senior coach of national international checkers, to guide the school and encourage students to devote themselves to chess learning and competitions. The school has been rated as a national checkers characteristic school, a national backgammon characteristic school, and a national Go characteristic school. Wang Zixuan is one of the beneficiaries, she has been influenced by chess culture since she entered the school in the first grade, and after joining the school team, she has emerged in various competitions at all levels, and under the guidance of the two coaches, her level has been rapidly improved, and she has gradually entered the international stage.
With the continuous development of chess education in the school, it is believed that there will be more outstanding chess players in Qifeng Street Primary School who will continue to move towards a bigger arena and achieve more good results.