From May 4th to 5th, the first "Luo Xihe Cup" Youth Go Elite Tournament and City Youth Go Team Tournament were held in Longhua District, Shenzhen. Go "post-waves" from all over the country are playing in this new event. The competition was guided by the Talent Work Bureau of Longhua District, Shenzhen, the Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Longhua District, Shenzhen, hosted by Luo Xihe Studio, a famous sports artist in Longhua District, Shenzhen, and undertaken by the Weiqi Association of Longhua District, Shenzhen.
After two days of wonderful and fierce battles, Xiao Zijian, Huang Zilu and Zhang Tianze won the top three in the junior group A, and the champion, second and third runners-up in the junior group B were won by Liu Yaopeng, Wang Ruiyuan and Lei Ziqin respectively. World champion Luo Xihe presented awards to the winning athletes.
According to the head coach of the team members who won the championship of the elite competition, the atmosphere of Go sports in Shenzhen has become better and better in recent years, providing many opportunities for Go competitions, and the overall strength of the young players in Shenzhen has also risen rapidly; the young players who won the team championship said that they were "fighting as a team" with their classmates and winning the championship with a total of seven rounds, which is very exciting; the world champion of Go, the head coach of the Shenzhen Longhua team of Weijia, Luo Xihe, the founder of this competition, said that this competition has a great impact in Guangdong Province, and the level of the players is online, which basically shows the "highest level" of Shenzhen Go players. "In addition to their talents, children also have to have some expectations for the path of Go. This kind of competition is mainly to let the young players feel the 'mental state' of the industry masters. ”
In the 2023 China Go League that ended in March this year, the Shenzhen Longhua team with Ke Jie as the main force won the championship for the first time, becoming the first Chinese Go League championship in Shenzhen and even Guangdong, and the latest annotation of Longhua's insistence on "developing the industry with chess". In recent years, in parallel with Shenzhen's construction of a "city of intellectual sports", Longhua District has built an international cultural and sports brand highland by deepening the construction of a famous cultural and sports system, so as to enhance the city's popularity and cultural influence. A number of chess masters such as Chinese chess grandmaster and world champion Liu Dahua, Go world champion Luo Xihe, and Chinese Go first person Ke Jie have successively established sports master studios in Longhua.
The first "Luo Xihe Cup" Youth Go Elite Tournament and Urban Youth Go Team Competition were hosted by Luo Xihe Studio, a famous sports artist in Longhua District, through the competition and the subsequent series of activities of Go masters entering the grassroots level, giving Go teenagers a high-quality stage for competition and exchange, further consolidating the foundation of youth Go, enhancing the influence of Go among teenagers, promoting the development of youth Go, and discovering the "leaders" of youth Go , transform a good mass foundation into a sustainable driving force for the development of the project, and help the cause of Go to flourish "from generation to generation of talented people".
Nowadays in Longhua, the competition activities are in full swing, the chess club is bursting with vitality, and the chess education is in the ascendant...... Adhering to the concept of "leading by famous experts, professional support, and mass participation", this year, Longhua District will continue to strengthen Luo Xihe, Kejie Famous Studio and Longhua Professional Go Training Base, create a "1+2+N" Go sports development system, and create a national "Shangyi" style. The relevant person in charge of the Longhua District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau said that Go is the essence of traditional culture and the theme of "Wisdom Longhua" and "Cultural Longhua". Longhua actively plans and deploys the overall situation in chess sports, uses chess as a medium, gathers high-end resources, and uses chess to build a new city IP.
Text | Li Wei
Figure | Courtesy of the Organiser