Little chess pieces lead the cross-strait love 2021 “Twin Cities Cup” Go Exchange TournamentFly into the homes of ordinary people
Shanghai in December has passed the heavy snow festival, but the Go game that connects the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the figures who are seriously thinking and laying in front of the computer screen make the Shanghai Chess Academy full of warmth. Today, the 2021 “Twin Cities Cup” Go Exchange Tournament was held online in Shanghai and Taipei. Xu Bin, Director of Shanghai Sports Bureau, Li Zaili, Director of Sports Bureau of Taipei City Government, and Zhong Xiaomin, Director of Shanghai Taiwan Affairs Office, and other guests attended Opening ceremony.
Caption: Li Mingshen, reporter of Xinmin Evening News at the game site (the same below)
At the opening ceremony, the guest exchange chess game left in the last “Twin Cities” exchange competition was renewed. Each of the 12 guests from Shanghai and Taipei placed one after another on the interactive chessboard to symbolize friendship, compose a brilliant chapter, and further promote the strait. Pawns exchanged between sports and Go, and watched the subsequent Go exchange game.
With the foundation and confidence that was successfully held last year, this year’s “Twin Cities Cup” Go Exchange Tournament has been significantly improved in scale and specifications. There are three major sections in the competition: Youth Go Tournament, Professional Summit Tournament, and Professional Exchange Tournament. The Youth Go Tournament is divided into four groups: the God group, the sitting group, the specific group, and the Tongyou group for group confrontation. Since June this year, 20 Shanghai chess players have gone through the sea selection and semi-finals, and finally stood out from nearly a thousand players, and exchanged and exchanged ideas with Taipei’s elite chess players of the same age and improved together. After two rounds of fierce competition for a total of forty rounds, the two sides were evenly divided and agreed to fight again in the coming year.
In the newly-added professional peak tournament, Shanghai’s famous chess player Hu Yaoyu’s eighth dan competed with Taipei’s “red-faced chess king” Zhou Junxun’s ninth dan. The organizer specially invited the vice chairman of the Chinese Go Association, the 9th section of Go, the Shanghai world champion Chang Hao, and the vice president of Shanghai Chess Academy and the head coach of the Shanghai Go team Liu Shizhen to give live talks to chess fans on both sides of the strait. In the professional exchange competition, both parties invite professional players and Go enthusiasts to form a team to play joint chess.
This event is co-sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Sports and the Sports Bureau of Taipei City Government, and is jointly organized by Shanghai Sports Development Service Center, Shanghai Go Association, Shanghai Huangpu District Sports Bureau, Taipei City General Sports Association Go Association, and Taipei City Go Cultural Association. Undertook, Shanghai Yingchangqi Go Education Foundation, Shanghai Huangpu District Go Association, Shanghai Jiesheng Go Cultural Training School, Yike Go, Haifeng Chess Academy, Qicheng Go, Bafangzhiguang Integrated Marketing Co., Ltd., Orient Securities| Futures, USI’s support and guarantee.
After two years of development, the “Double Cities Cup” Go Exchange Tournament has become a Go gathering for professional players, amateur players, and young players. It has gradually developed into one of the Shanghai-Taiwan sports exchange events. It played a positive role in enhancing the friendship between the compatriots in the two places. The use of Go for chess players in the two places to make friends will further promote the sports and cultural exchanges between Shanghai and Taipei, and help the two cities to prosper and develop together. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Lu Weixin)
Editor: Wu Xuying
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