As we all know, in the small chess world, there are many sad chess players, and in my opinion, Zhang Shenhong can also be counted as one of them! Born in March 1968, Zhang Shenhong is a native of Hunan, nicknamed "Commander of the Xiang Army", and is an outstanding representative of amateur chess players! Zhang Shenhong began to play chess at the age of 12, and won the Hunan Provincial Championship eight times from 1994 to 2004, which is enough to show that Zhang Shenhong is the undisputed "shoulder handle" of the Hunan chess world, for Zhang Shenhong, the brightest moment is naturally to win the 12th place in the 2001 National Individual Competition, thus being promoted to the national chess master, which invisibly greatly enhances his status in the chess world!
Zhang Shenhong's family lives in the southern suburbs of The old county town of Cili, because there are many brothers and sisters in the family and the family's economic conditions are very poor, so his childhood is not very good, the children of the poor family have long been in charge, he has to help the family herd cattle, cook and chop firewood after returning home from school, etc. Before he became fascinated with chess, his life was like this. However, when he was 5 years old, he accidentally came into contact with chess and has been out of control ever since! The chess car cannon always comes to his mind from time to time, which makes him unable to concentrate on learning, and his academic performance naturally plummets, and his mother is quite angry about it, teaching him five times over and over again, but he is still only interested in chess, and his mother does not move, and can only go with him!
In order to improve his chess skills and eat on chess, Zhang Shenhong began to learn from teachers everywhere, and in 1982, 14-year-old Zhang Shenhong visited Zou Qizhen, who had won the second place in the chess tournament in Changde region, as a teacher. Although Zou's chess strength is not high, under his guidance, Zhang Shenhong's chess skills have grown a lot. After day after day of hard work, Zhang Shenhong had no opponent in the radius of dozens of miles, and in the Hunan Chess Junior Selection Tournament held in Changde in 1983, Zhang Shenhong, who had just emerged, killed the four parties and won the championship in one fell swoop! This time winning the championship gave Zhang Shenhong the confidence to rely on chess to eat, so he only read the first year of junior high school and dropped out of school without hesitation, although his parents had opinions, but due to family poverty, they could only support Zhang Shenhong to find another way to make a living!
Since 1984, 16-year-old Zhang Shenhong has been forced by his life to enter the county cement factory as a worker. In the years after that, he was practicing chess while working to make money, and as long as he had free time, he would look around for people who were not below him to play chess, but he gradually found that it was becoming more and more difficult for him to meet an opponent whose chess skills were above him! In the past few years, Zhang Shenhong has also carefully studied dozens of chess scores, and the game between Chess Giant Yang Guanxuan and Ten Lianba Hu Ronghua is his favorite, although studying chess games alone seems lonely, but such an environment can also make him more focused, and his chess skills can be improved faster! In order to better practice chess, he even set up a suspension of pay at the factory!
In 1994, Zhang Shenhong participated in the "Diamond Cup" chess competition in Hunan Province, and finally he won the championship with ease, and in the following years, he always maintained his excellent state, and until 2004, he had won the Hunan Provincial Championship 9 times! Although he won the title of chess master in 2001, because his own chess strength is not high enough and the chess cake is indeed too small, it is still difficult for him to support his family despite his hard work, and many times, he can only stay at home for two months a year!
Zhang Shenhong's main source of income is naturally to play elephant armor, from 2010 to 2012, Zhang Shenhong has been playing for the Shandong team and has achieved good results, so in July 2013, the Shandong team will hold a grand ceremony to award this former team member the title of "meritorious team member", Zhang Shenhong should deserve this title, because without him, the Shandong team that debuted in the elephant armor cannot stand firm! In particular, in the 2012 season, Shandong team ranked in the top six, made a historic breakthrough, and established Shandong's status in Xiangjia, in which Zhang Shenhong, who won the 8th place in the individual scoring list, can be described as the first contributor of Shandong team.
For Zhang Shenhong, the controversial part is that he abandoned his old club Shandong in the 2013 Xiangjia season. It turned out that Zhang Qiang, the coach of the Beijing chess team, was impressed by Zhang Shenhong's good performance in the 2012 Xiangjia, so he was bent on digging the wall foot of the Shandong team, under the temptation of heavy gold, Zhang Shenhong chose to abandon the Shandong team and go to a high place, Zhang Shenhong's behavior is also a common sentiment of people, and there is no need to blame too much! What Zhang Shenhong could not have imagined was that when he arrived at the Beijing team, he encountered Waterloo, played 12 games for the Beijing Division, the record was 1 win, 6 and 5 losses, and the only victory was to defeat Ou Zhaofang, who lost 9-9 in Hunan!
Seeing Zhang Shenhong's consecutive defeats, Zhang Qiang finally realized that his original act of digging the foot of the wall was completely miscalculated, and Zhang Shenhong's poor performance may also be a reaction to Zhang Qiang's digging of other teams' wall feet. In the end, Zhang Qiang decided not to send Zhang Shenhong to play in the final six rounds, Zhang Shenhong was abandoned, and Zhang Shenhong's personal scoring ranking dropped from the eighth place last season to the fiftieth place of the season, and the contrast was great! Zhang Shenhong's unusual behavior made the Beijing team desperately catch up with the leader Heilongjiang team, and in the end, Heilongjiang took the crown three rounds in advance, and the Beijing team that was determined to win the championship had to stop and return!
In recent years, Zhang Shenhong, who is more than 50 years old, still tirelessly participates in various competitions, and also actively participates in the heaviest Xiangjia League and individual competitions, in Zhang Shenhong's heart, becoming a chess grandmaster and even a national chess champion is still the driving force for his unremitting struggle, but what is stifling is that due to the emergence of new people in the chess world, the elderly Zhang Shenhong naturally does not have much competitiveness, in last year's Xiangjia League, although Zhang Shenhong defeated Wang Tianyi, the first person in the grade score, However, he was beheaded by many ordinary masters whose chess strength was not as good as Wang Tianyi's, and the final record was not ideal, and this year, Zhang Shenhong did not even qualify to participate in the Xiangjia League, it seems that the living space of "XiangJun Commander" Zhang Shenhong in today's chess world is getting smaller and smaller.