Zhao Guorong, born in 1961 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, is a chess grandmaster.
In December 1961, in the ice city of Harbin, a thousand miles of ice and snow, a baby was born in an ordinary courtyard, and the child was later named Zhao Guorong. Xiao Guorong has been quiet since he was a child, and in front of his parents and brothers, he is a top obedient child. Unlike most children, he has an extra hobby of watching chess. Don't come here, always like to squat in the courtyard to watch the adults play chess.
In 1973, 12-year-old Zhao Guorong won the first place in the primary school group in the Harbin Primary and Secondary School Chess Competition, and it was in this competition that he was discovered by Wang Jialiang, Li Zhongjian and Jin Qichang. Looking at Xiao Guorong's tiger head and thick and simple appearance, they were moved, and they were not going to give birth to a "little Northeast Tiger". After that, Zhao Guorong became a regular visitor to Wang Jialiang's family. The "old Siberian Tiger" taught him chess from the beginning and lent him various chess books to read. In this way, Xiao Guorong has added wings to the tiger, and the level of chess skills has greatly increased. In 1974, in order to welcome the competition of the 3rd National Games, the Harbin Municipal Sports Committee set up a chess training team, and Zhao Guorong was selected. After the training, he represented the Heilongjiang Provincial Chess Team in the National Chess Competition held in Chengdu in the same year. Passing through Shanghai, Wang Jialiang deliberately asked Hu Ronghua and Zhao Guorong to play a game of handicap. After the game, Hu Ronghua looked at this 13-year-old child for a long time, and it seemed that there was a scorching current rushing towards him. From Zhao Guorong's delicate chess style, he seemed to have a premonition of something. On this trip, Zhao Guorong played against the famous generals Zang Ruyi, Qian Hongfa, and Li Guangliu in the group competition, like a milk tiger out of the forest, performed well, and won the praise of the veterans.
Due to the guidance of Zhao Guorong's famous player Wang Jialiang, the chess style is similar to Wang and more precise and delicate, rigid and soft. The layout is innovative, the central bureau is bold, the stronger it is, and the more courageous it is, the longer it dissolves the two factions of the north and the south than the same furnace. It is known as the "New Siberian Tiger".
In 1974, he began to participate in national competitions, and after 1978, Zhao Guorong became a professional athlete in the Heilongjiang Provincial Chess Team. In 1978, he made his debut and reached the final round in a multi-player individual preliminary round. In the final held in Zhengzhou, in the first three rounds, he won the first three rounds with his backhand and Hu Ronghua and Shengliu Dahua, and the first hand defeated Wang Guixiang, which was a blockbuster and took the lead. However, in the fourth round, he met with the veteran General Yang Gongxuan, because of his desire to win, he was secretly calculated by Lao Yang and lost the battle, so as to discourage himself, and lost 4 cities, and finally only got 12. Although this ranking is not ideal, according to the current regulations, you can enter the ranks of chess masters.
In 1982, it won the fifth place in the country.
In 1983, it won the third place in the country. According to the new regulations, if you win the top three in three national individual competitions, you can be promoted to Grandmaster. Zhao Guorong had already ascended the first of the three steps of the Grandmaster.
In 1984, 1988 and 1989, he won the third place in the country, and in 1985 and 1987, he was the second place in the country.
He won the national championship three times in 1990, 1992 and 1995, and he is the eighth national champion in china.
He won the second "High-Tech Cup" championship, the first "Guangyang Cup" Chess Jihad Championship in 1995, the first Chess Celebrity Battle in 1997, the title of Celebrity, and the "Five Sheep Cup" National Championship in 1998 and 1999. He is one of the main players of the Chinese team of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Asian Cup team champions, the champion of the 4th Asian Cities Masters Tournament, the individual champion of the 2nd World Chess Championship in 1991, one of the main members of the team champion Chinese team, the individual runner-up of the 3rd World Chess Championship in 1993, and one of the main members of the team champion China. In 1999, he won the World Chess Championship. He has visited Europe and the United States many times and made great contributions to the promotion of chess.
Since 1990, Zhao Guorong's achievements in various competitions have been outstanding, he has not only won the national championship and the world championship three times, but also in some major cup competitions, either champion or runner-up, the results are impressive, and he is the top among the strongest. This shows that his chess skills have reached the level of pure fire and are at the peak of the period. In the years that followed, Zhao Guorong maintained this strong momentum, and he reached the top twice in the national individual competition in 1992 and the national individual competition in 1995, winning the national championship three times, laying the foundation for his position in the Chinese chess world.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1991, another piece of good news reached the banks of the Songhua River. From September 8 to 1012, the second World Chess Championship was held in Kunming, a spring city, in which 40 male and female masters from 9 countries and regions on four continents participated. After 9 rounds of fierce competition, China's Zhao Guorong came out on top with an undefeated record of 6 wins and 3 draws. So far, Zhao Guorong has set the titles of national champion, Asian champion and world champion "three crowns" in one. At that time, the only people who won this honor were Zhao Guorong and Lü Qin.
After winning the world championship, when a pair of congratulatory hands reached out to Zhao Guorong, he smiled and said: "It is much easier to win the world championship than to win the national championship." ”
Since Zhao Guorong won the more influential "Summer Resort Cup" in 1982, the champions and runners-up trophies of various cups have won dozens of them, which is enough to hold an exhibition. People call Ah Rong a "cup-bearer", which is not an exaggeration.
From January 18 to 25, 1995, the first "Guangyang Cup" chess holy battle was held in Pudong, Shanghai, gathering chess masters from all over the country. Zhao Guorong defeated Tang Zhuoguang, Yu Youhua and other famous generals, and reached the final four with Lü Qin, Hu Ronghua and Xu Yinchuan. In the semi-finals, Ah Rong defeated Xu Yinchuan, and met Lü Qin, who defeated Hu Ronghua, in the final of the final, in which all the games were won and played for 10 minutes of fast chess. Before the game, people said that lü qin, who can be called the "little Lü flying knife" who is the only one in china, fights fast chess, and there is less evil and less luck. However, the balance of victory eventually tilted in Favor of Zhao Guorong. The reporters wrote: "The great hero of the northeast has captured the young marshal of the southern country. Zhao Guorong became the first "Big Chess Saint" champion.
After the game, Ah Rong said with deep experience: "With the continuous improvement of the level of chess skills, the importance of fast chess kung fu is increasingly shown, which is an important part of measuring the overall chess kung fu, and in many cases it is necessary to rely on fast chess to determine victory or defeat." In this big chess holy war, I played a total of 3 games of fast chess, all of which won, and also tested my fast chess level. This is a great encouragement for me to play fast chess in the future. ”
In 1997, the second chess holy battle of the "Guangyang Cup" was finally won by Zhao Rong and Lü Qin, who although he failed to defend the title, he still played a level.
From October 31 to November 5, 1997, the first national chess celebrity battle of the "Linhe Cup" was held in the historic city of Henan Shangqiu, which was the first real title battle in China, and the participants were the top 16 chess masters in the ranking. In the game, Zhao Guorong made a big move, passed the barriers, defeated Zhuang Yuting, Li Zhiping, Hu Ronghua and other famous players, and killed Lu Qin again in the final. The two games of slow chess shook hands and made peace, and had to compete on the fast chess. The two tigers must be injured when they compete, and as a result, the "Siberian Tiger" eats the "South China Tiger", and Ah Rong wins with a beautiful discarded son and a subtle killing method, thus becoming the first "celebrity" of Chinese chess. From participating in the national chess individual competition in Zhangzhou, to participating in the celebrity battle, and then going to Shanghai non-stop to participate in the second chess holy war of the "Guangyang Cup", in more than a month Ah Rong rushed to three major competitions, fought hard, won a championship, a runner-up, and showed his superb chess skills.
On June 27, 1998, the "Red Bull Cup" chess super cat competition closed in Wuxi, Zhao Guorong won the "Red Bull Cup" after winning consecutive victories over Xu Tianhong and Lü Qin, and finally won the "Red Bull Cup" with 1 win and victory in the fight with Xu Yinchuan for the crown. Then, in January 1999, he competed in the 19th "Five Sheep Cup" chess championship, defeating Xu Tianhong, Li Laiqun, Xu Yinchuan, Zhan he martyred Hanming, Liu Dahua, Hu Ronghua, Lü Qin and many other famous players, with an undefeated record of 3 wins and 4 draws. It was his best result since taking part in the event. The "Five Sheep Cup" chess championship is one of the high-standard, influential and longest-established events in China. According to the regulations, the participant must have won the national individual championship.
In long-term practice, Zhao Guorong has formed his own unique chess style. He not only inherited the style of "old Northeast Tiger" Wang Jialiang attacking and killing Ling Li, but also dissolved the delicate and flexible characteristics of the southern chess players represented by "Uncle Devil" Yang Guanfu, and became the characteristics of both the north and the south, and the combination of rigidity and softness; the reason why Talking about Zhao Guorong's chess is a bit of a feeling of "talking about tiger color change" is also here. Wang Jialiang proudly said to people, "I have fought on the field for most of my life, and I have fought against generations of chess players, and it is still not possible to reach the current level of Xiao Zhao." ”
Since the 1950s and 1960s, there have been rivals in the chess world, the northerner Wang Jialiang and the southerner Yang Guanxuan, tit-for-tat confrontation between the north and the south. Outside the chessboard, the two were equally unconvinced. Time passed, and now the two of them each had a disciple facing off against the north and south chess players - Lü Qin of Shicheng Yang Guanxuan and Zhao Guorong, a disciple of Wang Jialiang. Although they do not give in to each other on the chessboard, the two are called brothers and brothers in private. Before a certain world competition, Zhao Guorong cheered for Lü Qin, and when he was drunk, he patted his chest and said: "Don't be afraid, Lü Qin can't get the world championship, I will help him take it!" "Every time he arrives in Guangdong, Lü Qin will set up a banquet, and even if there is something, he will find a friend to drink two cups for him and Zhao Guorong." In this regard, Zhao Guorong will smile and say to himself, "Chess is like his person." In his eyes, in the 1950s and 1960s, the styles of chess between the north and the south were very different, the south was delicate, the north attacked and killed, the chess was like its person, and the personality of the chess player was also very different. Since the end of the last century, the gap between the north and the south has gradually narrowed, and the chess players have become closer. As a chess player, there should not have been a north-south estrangement, the view of the portal, the ancient saying has clouds, and the chess is like water. Kill, kill; keep, keep. You can go the way you want. In their generation, like him and Lü Qin, they must be consistent in their pursuit of chess, and they are very good friends off the field, because they can also talk about it. Playing chess should not consider who the other party is, and it is a good thing to learn from.
In 2005, Zhao Guorong was elected as the director of the Promotion Committee of the World Chess Federation.
In 2006, Zhao Guo won the men's professional group championship of the Third National Sports Conference.
In March 2007, at the 6th "Jia Zhou Cup" National Chess Championship, Zhao Guorong performed heroically and won the championship.
In the final of the 2008 National Chess Individual Championship, Zhao Guorong defeated Shanghai chess player Hong Zhi first, and once again dominated the national arena after 13 years, which was also his fourth national individual championship trophy.
In the 2010 National Chess Individual Championship, Zhao Guorong won the third place.
Zhao Guorong is a generous and dedicated person, although he is a national champion, the president of the chess academy, the head coach and athlete of the Heilongjiang chess team, he has never spared no effort to promote newcomers, playing against his peers, no matter what the situation, always patiently reviewing and discussing. Everyone praised that Master Zhao really had grace.