He was a chess master and senior chess coach in the 80s of the last century. Jiangsu has produced two national champions, he is indispensable, he is a well-written chess writer, is a national referee, overseas chess disseminator, he is Yan Mujiang.
Yan Mujiang, born in 1952, is a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province. His hometown chess has a strong atmosphere, and the chess master Hui Songxiang, when it rains. It had a certain impact on his path to chess.
His enlightenment teacher was his father, and the conditions for learning chess at that time were very poor, and he still remembers it to this day, in order to teach him the legs of the turtle. Can't find the chess chart, the father will use the newspaper to do, first fold the newspaper in half, and then use the brush to draw a line on the fold, the chess diagram is very beautiful, a bit like a handicraft.
Later, chen Taosheng and Zhu Deming, famous regional players, gave chess lectures at the Cultural Palace every Saturday, and he also benefited a lot. But it is mainly thanks to the guidance of Elder Hui, in the words of Teacher Ji Benhan. Thanks to Huilao's instruction, the foundation of chess in Yan Mujiang's youth was laid.
He had come to prominence in seven or three years. That year, Elder Hui invited Shanghai Hu Ronghua, Xu Tianli, Zhu Jianqiu and other famous players to perform in Changshu, and he and Shanghai Yu Hongmu were equal, which was impressive.
In 1974, the national chess tournament was resumed, and the scale was grand. More than 100 people participated in the competition, divided into ten groups, each group taking the top three to enter the final. He reached the final round and finished 16th.
In the 1980s, he defeated the champions and runners-up Liu Dahua and Xu Tianli in the competition of the First Group, lost to Hu Ronghua and Yang Guanxuan, and finally won the sixth place in the country, thus entering the ranks of the national players.
Jiangsu Ji Benhan, a famous chess player in China, is known as "Ji Dashuai" and is the leader of Jiangsu chess. Yan Mujiang said that the early chess team in Jiangsu Province had Dai Rongguang, Li Guoxun and me, and the coach was Teacher Ji. Xu Tianhong said that once in the competition, Teacher Xu Tianli in Shanghai found me, so he wrote to Teacher Ji to recommend me, saying that "this child is very good", and Teacher Ji and Teacher Li transferred me to the provincial team for training. The two latecomers have now achieved fame, but they are still obsessed with their mentors of the year, and they are grateful to Dade.
The development of the chess industry depends on generations of people, inheritance and relay.
Xu Tianhong told me that his enlightenment teacher was Gu Yimin of Taizhou, who introduced me to the art hall of chess, and after entering the team, it was mainly the careful teaching of teacher Li Guoxun. After the adjustment of the division of labor in the team, Mr. Yan Mujiang served as the coach of the men's team, which also gave me great help, and I thanked everyone who helped me from the bottom of my heart.
This is a unique scene at the opening ceremony of the 6th Country Garden Cup National Chess Championship Invitational Tournament. It is also an exciting and heart-warming scene. The champions took the stage with their teachers. Children hold flowers in their hands and dedicate them to their heroes. They paint a touching picture of the millennium national essence passed down from generation to generation, they tell the profundity and longevity of chess, and they show the profound connotation, love and gratitude of chess culture.
The author has previously written a series of short stories about the king of chess, one of which is "Xu Tianhong practicing calligraphy", which is said that at the end of the 70s of the last century, one year Xu Tianhong was not eligible to play, and the team took him to the field to observe, when the game was to be recorded, and the game record was posted on the wall. Xu Tianhong is like a fish in the water, like hunger and thirst, he keeps copying and copying, and then goes back to playing score research round by round, Teacher Xu Tianli always jokes with him, saying my little brother, how is your calligraphy practiced?
In this way, the hard work is not worth it. In 1985, the national chess and individual competitions were held in Nanjing, and Xu Xianhong reached the final four. In 1989, Xu Tianhong finally ascended to the throne of the national championship.
Yan Mujiang, who was a coach at that time, is still sighing, Tianhong
Is a typical hard-working chess player, it is by virtue of this spirit that Jiangsu has the first national chess champion.
Yan Mujiang introduced that Xu Chao's enlightenment teacher was Suzhou Pang Xiaoyu, Xu Chao won the fifth place in the provincial junior competition in 1993, and then Teacher Pang sent it to the provincial team. Mainly Li Guoxun and I took, Xu Chao was 14 years old in 1995. Won the Provincial Junior Championship. In 1995, Xu Tianhong served as a coach. Two years later, Xu Chao won the national junior championship. Later, he was awarded the National Chess Saint, and was named and the top three in this year's Yuhuan Cup Competition.
It can be seen that a small seedling thrives. Inseparable from the nourishment of sunshine and rain. It is inseparable from the hard work of many gardeners.
Photos from left to right, Yan Mujiang, Wu Xia, Xu Chao, Lu Zhengrong, Xu Tianhong, Zhang Guofeng. Jiangsu team is full of talent, can you guess how many world champions there are here? How many Asian champions? How many national champions?
In the 2017 National Chess Individual Competition, the author witnessed the whole process of Xu Chao's summit. The most thrilling thing is that the final battle is a duel with the "first man" Wang Tianyi. It is the bureau Xu Chaoyi who has no remorse, and has done his best in a battle. The two sides launched a big blood rush with a strong attack in the middle of the road and a counterattack in the seven ways, the red side poured out of the nest, and the black side pressed on the whole line. At the moment of deciding the victory or defeat, Xu Chao abandoned the opposite, killed and killed, and finally choked the throat of victory, when Wang Tianyi signaled to admit defeat, the 19th chess king of the Chu River Han Realm was born!
When the reporter interviewed Xu Chao, the first sentence of this new branch leader was, first of all, I want to thank my teacher Xu Tianhong, and Teacher Yan Mujiang for my training: raising help, thank them!
: There are talented people in the Jiangshan generation, and the back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave. When the national champion walked into the campus and sat in front of the middle school students. Xu Chao will definitely have mixed feelings and emotions.