You come and go is a game of wisdom, and black and white is a contest of courage. On May 14th, the Chengdu-Chongqing Chess Characteristic School Exchange Activity was successfully held in Jiangnan Primary School. This has injected new impetus into stimulating students' love for chess and other intellectual sports, building a new platform for youth sports exchanges and cooperation between Sichuan and Chongqing, and working together to build a highland of intellectual sports in the central and western regions.
Xiao Guanguan, a famous chess player and honorary advisor of the Sichuan Chess Association, helped the event on the same day, and Jiang Wenxin, deputy head of the district government, attended the event and delivered a speech.
In the solemn national anthem, the event officially kicked off. It is understood that in February this year, nearly 400 young chess players from 17 schools in Sichuan and Chongqing participated in the 2024 "Master Cup" Chengdu-Chongqing Chess Competition, and carried out fierce competition through a combination of online and offline. The event began with a look at highlights from this year's competition. Immediately, Zhang Zhong, the men's international grandmaster of chess, commented on the competition of the 3rd "Master Cup" Chengdu-Chongqing Chess Characteristic School Invitational Tournament, and Huang Qian, the women's international grandmaster and chief referee of chess, announced the results of the game. The guests presented awards to the winners.
Chess is one of the oldest and most popular intellectual sports in the world, which not only tests the wisdom and skills of chess players, but also tests the will and mentality of chess players, which is extremely interesting, philosophical and challenging. What excited the league schools and young chess players that day was a hearty master wheel battle between Master Zhang Zhong and Master Huang Qian and 48 chess players from 18 chess schools in Sichuan and Chongqing. In the badminton court of Qizhi Campus, the young chess players gathered in a square, and the two masters played while walking, playing with 48 young chess players at the same time. "A master is a master, and I have learned a lot from this wheel war." "It's so rare, to get the guidance of the master, I have to study my chess skills harder." …… The young chess players felt the charm of the master, improved their chess skills, gained encouragement, and were full of confidence in the road of the national elephant.
In recent years, Nan'an District attaches great importance to the promotion and development of chess, and has held the "Belt and Road" National Chess Competition, and the district's primary and secondary schools have carried out chess sports in an all-round way, with more than 200,000 chess enthusiasts. As an excellent school representative for the promotion and popularization of chess in Nan'an District, Jiangnan Primary School adheres to the principle of "enlightening wisdom and educating people with chess", extracts the school motto "take every step well" from chess theory, creates a "step-by-step" course, and has successively won the honors of "National Famous School with Chess Characteristics" and "National High-level Reserve Talent Base for Chess", which has broadened the platform and provided practical opportunities for enhancing the international vision and cultural understanding of young people in Nan'an.
In the future, our district will continue to use chess as a medium to build a "concentric bridge" to communicate Sichuan and Chongqing, attract more and more children to actively participate in the sport of chess, temper their will, enhance their wisdom, conduct in-depth exchanges, jointly promote the integration and inclusiveness of education, promote resource sharing and rapid development, present the good situation of the vigorous development of chess in mainland China to the world, and fully demonstrate the strong strength of intellectual sports in Sichuan and Chongqing.
On the same day, the flag, emblem and song of the Chengdu-Chongqing Chess Characteristic Alliance School were also released, the flag handover ceremony was held, and special lectures on brain science and chess players were carried out.