Just after the year of establishment
Pascal Bieg, President of the Berlin Chess Association, Germany
It is a height of 1.96 meters
Chess "Tall Man"
He learned about Chinese culture,
To promote chess exchanges between China and Germany,
In the past ten years, he has traveled back and forth to Bengbu more than ten times
and more than ten Chinese cities.
On August 10, the reporter met Pascal at the Bengbu Chess Academy, who had not long since ended the epidemic prevention and isolation observation, and he sometimes stared at the chessboard, and studied the chess game with Yu Jihong, the president of the Bengbu Chess Academy, and sometimes paid attention to the computer screen, and gave online guidance to the small chess players of the Bengbu Chess Academy through the network platform.
Make chess a lifelong career
Pascal was born in May 1991 to a family of teachers in Berlin, Germany, to parents who studied chess. In 2001, Pascal, who was in middle school, took chess, and at first he didn't want to spend too much time on it, and once the study plan was changed, "Dad said, don't rush to give up, first insist on it will definitely be rewarded." Pascal told reporters in a fluent Chinese. Since then, his professionalism has improved rapidly, and he has no opponents in the class in less than two months, and in 2002 he joined a local club in Berlin.
Subsequently, he represented Germany in youth chess competitions many times, winning several individual championships and team championships, becoming a rising star in the German chess world. In 2017, he also represented the European united team in the "Blindfold" 1-on-26 Guinness World Record Challenge held in China, and he did not give up when the game was at a disadvantage, making the opponent "blind and wrong" and becoming the only overseas chess player to win the opponent.
Fall in love with China and marry a Chinese girl
As an old friend of Sino-German chess exchanges and a volunteer of the German Youth Chess Association, Pascal came to Bengbu from September 2018 to February 2019 to work and live for half a year, and then returned to Bengbu in October 2019. During his stay in Bengbu, Pascal and the teachers of Bengbu Chess Academy have carried out public welfare chess teaching and cultural exchange activities in many schools, and their superb chess skills, standard Chinese and spoken language have left a good impression on teachers and students.
In 2018, on the recommendation of Bengbu Chess Academy, he went to Chengdu as a volunteer to participate in the competition and met Li Na, a beautiful and generous Chinese girl and intern referee. In 2020, Pascal and Li Na were married in Germany.
He also told reporters that now he not only likes Chinese culture, but also changes in food tastes, likes tea culture, likes to eat spicy, in Bengbu he often goes to eat crayfish, river bean cake, beef soup, but also likes Bengbu drinking "fried dumplings".
Bengbu people are hospitable, longzi lake park, lake rise mingyue ancient residence expo park, Bengbu city museum, Olympic sports center and other landmark attractions, let Pascal like the city.
Come and meet the mussels
Since the beginning of this year, Pascal has made sufficient preparations for going to Bengbu, with the support of the provincial and municipal commercial and foreign affairs departments, the Foreign Experts Bureau and the active efforts of the Bengbu Chess Academy, until June to complete the approval work, and flew from Frankfurt, Germany to Shanghai on June 27.
"From the time I got off the plane, I isolated and observed health in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, and conducted 8 nucleic acid tests for 29 days, and the results were all normal." Pascal said, "Although it is now affected by the epidemic, the exchange of Chinese-German culture and chess cannot be interrupted. Under the active promotion of Yu Jihong, president of Bengbu Chess Academy, a Sino-German chess online match will be held on August 15, and German and Bengbu chess players will have "face-to-face" exchanges on the Internet. From September 11 to 12, an online exchange activity of the Sino-German Chess Culture Network will also be held.
Pascal said that after settling in Bengbu, he will actively strive to do more chess exchanges and professional teaching work, and make his own contribution to the development of chess in Bengbu.
Source: Bengbu Daily All Media
Reporter: Liu Chen, text/photo
Some of the images were provided by the respondents
Editor: Hou Jing
School Inspection: Xie Zuwu
Producer: Cheng Kai