Preface
Life is like chess, chess is like life.
There are no regrets, but will life regret it?
In 2000, chess queen Zhuchen announced that she would give up her Chinese nationality and join Qatar, and then represent Qatar in the competition, which caused a stir on the Internet for a while.
Zhu Chen has also changed from a talented "chess queen" sought after by everyone in China to a Qatari chess player who "betrayed the motherland".
Now 24 years have passed, and Zhuchen has faded out of people's field of vision.
But when Zhu Chen's occasional footage was exposed, her haggard face attracted everyone's attention, making everyone wonder, did Zhu Chen regret it?
1. Chess queen
In 1973, a scholarly family in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, added a new female doll, she is Zhuchen.
His father was an engineer and his mother was a secondary school teacher.
Good family conditions allow Zhuchen to have more opportunities to get in touch with new things.
One day when Zhuchen was eight years old, when she was playing with her cousin, she accidentally saw the chess that her cousin was studying.
Driven by curiosity, she urged her cousin to take her to play, and then Zhu Chen found that she was particularly fond of this "game", which was also the most common toy Zhu Chen played with when he was eight years old.
It is said that Chinese parents want their sons to become dragons and their daughters to become phoenixes, and Zhuchen's parents are no exception.
After discovering that their daughter likes chess, they directly sent Zhuchen to a professional school so that she could receive more systematic and professional training.
Zhu Chen did not live up to his family's expectations, and soon showed his talent in chess, and was called a talented player by his teacher in just one year.
This made the young Zhu Chen full of confidence in himself, but when the confident Zhu Chen stepped into the ring of the elementary school chess competition, he met his cousin.
No surprise, Zhu Chen lost very badly!
But this failure aroused Zhuchen's character of not admitting defeat, she began to study chess harder, and asked her father to help her find a famous chess teacher.
Zhu Chen's father was very happy with his daughter's request, and worked hard to invite two chess masters, Ye Rongguang and Xu Jun, for her.
Among them, Ye Rongguang is even more amazing, he is China's first men's international grandmaster, and he is also the head coach of the national team.
With their guidance, coupled with Zhuchen's talent and hard work.
When Zhu Chen was 12 years old, she began to represent the country in chess competitions, and even carried the world championship trophy home.
After that, the chess competition seems to be Zhu Chen's personal show, whether it is a big or small competition, as long as Zhu Chen plays, the trophy will have her share!
For a while, Zhuchen became a hot "star" athlete in China, and layers of halos brought her to the throne of "top stream", and she was sought after by a large number of fans.
But when Zhu Chen was 18 years old, she met someone who changed her life, and this person made Zhu Chen's reputation and status in China plummet.
2. Marrying far away in Qatar
When Zhu Chen was 18 years old, she met a fierce rival, and this person was her future husband, Mohammed from Qatar.
At first, Zhu Chen did not have a good impression of him, because the first time the two met, Muhammad was very rude, and even stared at her closely.
This made Zhu Chen a little flustered, and more importantly, Zhu Chen didn't expect that she would lose to this, an opponent she didn't put in her eyes at all!!
This fight left a deep impression on Zhu Chen, and she began to appreciate Muhammad.
So when Mohammed asked her for contact information after the game, the main city did not refuse.
In this way, the two became friends, and they often played chess together after the game, and even made cross-border phone calls to chat, and slowly the two really got along with the feelings between men and women.
But the love between the two could not be supported by their families.
First, the cultural differences between the two countries are too huge, and it is difficult for Zhuchen to adapt to life on their side.
Second, Qatar has very strict restrictions on women, and they can't go out at night, but the restrictions on men are very loose, and Mohammed can legally marry 4 wives.
If this man changes his mind, won't Zhuchen who marries far away from the Middle East have to suffer a lot of grievances?
Zhuchen's parents, who love their daughter, will certainly not agree.
Muhammad immediately promised to marry only one wife, Zhuchen.
But Mohammed's side was opposed by his parents, as a Qatari with royal blood, Mohammed's parents hoped that he could marry a royal girl first, and then consider the matter with Zhuchen.
Mohammed rejected his parents' suggestion, and in the face of pressure from both parents, the two chose to come together firmly.
In 2000, the two stepped into the palace of marriage.
But after marriage, the two encountered many difficulties.
The first is that the two have been separated for a long time, and they can only meet on the field.
How can such an unstable married life be resolved?
This is destined for one of the two to leave their homeland and go to live in another country.
3. Abandoning nationality for love is controversial
At first, the two decided to let Mohammed come to live in China, and he also joined the Jiangsu team, but in the end it ended in failure for various reasons.
Then, there is only one way left for Zhuchen to go to the Middle East!
Qatar is also full of sincerity, promising that as long as Zhuchen joins her country, she can still engage in her favorite Go industry.
It's just that when Zhu Chen joined the Qatari nationality, and even played for Qatar to face Chinese chess players, it caused a lot of sensation, and her evaluation was mixed.
Some people say that this is her own life, and it is no problem to choose how she wants, and some people say that the country cultivated Zhuchen, but she married far away from Qatar, and some people think that it is the attraction of Mohammed's "money ability", and beautiful women are equipped with rich people.
But no matter what, Zhu Chen's departure made her fans sad.
Zhu Chen was also labeled a "traitor".
But Zhu Chen is also very helpless about these, because of the Qatari system, if she can't compete, what awaits her will be the same life as other women in Qatar.
Wrapping your face in a black cloth all day makes it difficult to even go out.
So will Zhuchen regret marrying in Qatar?
In 2017, with the broadcast of an interview show, everyone's attention turned to the chess queen again, and Zhu Chen gave birth to two mixed-race children after marrying Mohammed.
But I don't know what the reason is, Zhu Chen revealed on the show that he had persuaded his girlfriend to marry Muhammad many times, and the two served a husband together.
It turned out that after Zhuchen gave birth to two daughters in succession, Muhammad's parents wanted him to marry another wife.
Fortunately, Muhammad kept his promise and loved his wife and two children very much, and did not marry a second wife.
I just don't know if it's not suitable for local life, when Zhu Chen appears in front of the camera, he always looks tired.
This can't help but make many netizens sigh that many people may be unhappy in their familiar homeland, but Zhuchen needs to force himself to adapt to life in the Middle East.
Therefore, many netizens speculated that Zhuchen's life in Qatar may be full of countless sadness.
But these are actually just speculations from netizens, and Zhu Chen himself should not regret it.
epilogue
She once wrote an autobiography "No Regrets in Chess", life is like chess, since there are no regrets in chess, then life naturally does not regret it.
At the Hangzhou Asian Games in September 2023, when Zhu Chen was interviewed, Muhammad looked at her quietly, his eyes were full of doting, and he had been married for many years and kept his promise to love Zhu Chen alone.
This time, the two appeared at the Asian Games because their youngest daughter Hinder participated in this tennis match.
struggles all his life in the career he likes, and has a husband who loves him and an excellent daughter, so Zhu Chen's life should not be regretted.
Sources of information in this article:
[1] China News Network, 2007-5-16 "Beautiful Chess Queen Zhuchen Transnational Love: Love is Black and White Opponent Chess"
[2] Chao News, 2023-10-1, "Interview with Zhu Chen, the queen of chess: a family of three participating in the Asian Games with different identities, this feeling is really happy"
[3] Sohu Sports, 2017-11-20, "The current situation of Zhuchen and her foreign husband after 41 years of chess!
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