Left wisdom expo, right consecutive chess king game
Author Liao Xugang
On the morning of October 23, the 9th National Press Go Championship of the 2021 "Shaoxing Bank Cup" opened at the Xianheng Hotel in Shaoxing. This year's competition gathered more than 30 news media representative teams from all provinces across the country, traditional media representative teams such as Zhejiang Guangdong Group, Jiangsu Ji association, Chongqing Daily, and new media teams such as Alibaba Chess Team, ByteDance Team, and Huashu Media Team gathered together to compete for the championship through two days and seven rounds of competition. Wang Runan, former chairman of the China Weiqi Association, Daniel Zhang, chairman of the Hangzhou Chess Association, and other leaders came to the opening ceremony to cheer for the players.
Wang Runan, former president of the Chinese Weiqi Association
Daniel Zhang, Chairman of Hangzhou Chess Association
The tournament was hosted by the All-China Journalists Association, the China Weiqi Association, the Leading Group of the Hangzhou Branch of the China Chess Academy and the People's Government of Shaoxing Municipality, and hosted by the Hangzhou Branch of the China Chess Academy, the Zhejiang Journalists Association, the Shaoxing Sports Bureau, the People's Government of Yuecheng District of Shaoxing City and the Hangzhou Yizhan Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
The National Press Go Championship was founded in 2013 and has been going on for nine years now. The tournament has become an important brand event of the Hangzhou Branch of the China Chess Academy and has a great influence in the press. At the same time, as one of the important projects of the second "Zhisheng" Intellectual Industry Expo of this year's "Electric Soul Cup", Shaoxing has received strong support from the Shaoxing Municipal Government, and Shaoxing is also the venue of the upcoming National Amateur Chess Championship, which can be described as an event, and at the same time connects the Wisdom Expo and the Chess King Competition, Hangzhou and Shaoxing, becoming the intersection of recent national chess events.
Wang Runan said in his speech at the opening ceremony that after nine years of the National Press Go Championship, it has become an important event of "double high" in the domestic amateur chess industry, and the journalists have played an indispensable role in promoting the development of the Go cause while actively disseminating and reporting on national events, he quipped to the players: "The participants are old friends, I hope that everyone will not learn like professional players, do not take the results too seriously, of course, be happy, in case of losing, Go home happy, too. ”
Daniel Zhang in an interview at the scene, thanked the organizer Shaoxing Municipal People's Government, and shaoxing bank co., Ltd., the exclusive title of this event, "The National Press Go Championship is a high-standard amateur Go tournament, and it also needs the support of all sectors of society, especially in the context of the current social background of repeated epidemics, the Shaoxing Municipal People's Government and the tournament title merchants have made considerable efforts for the final success of the competition, and Shaoxing is a place with a rich historical and cultural heritage. We hope that through various chess tournament activities, together with Shaoxing, we will promote local cultural construction and national popularity. ”
Jiang Shaodong, vice president of the head office of Shaoxing Bank Co., Ltd., said in his welcome speech at the opening ceremony that Shaoxing Bank's exclusive title of the National Press Go Championship is another important measure for the bank to support the development of the cultural industry. In the next stage, Shaoxing Bank will further focus on cultural finance, give full play to the advantages of flexibility and efficiency, and contribute more to the development of cultural industries.
Jiang Shaodong, Vice President of the Head Office of Shaoxing Bank Co., Ltd