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The chess event of the 14th National Games mass competition kicks off on the 21st_Zhejiang Online

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The chess event of the 14th National Games mass competition kicks off on the 21st

2021-07-21 15:51:17

Source: Xinhuanet

Reporter Chen Nuo

July 20th is World Chess Day. The reporter learned from the media briefing before the chess event of the 14th National Games mass competition that the chess event will start on the 21st in Hefei, Anhui Province. More than 200 athletes from 28 provinces and cities across the country will compete in 6 groups including men’s and women’s individual open groups, and 9 international masters including the active women’s world champion Ju Wenjun will compete on the same stage.

According to reports, this competition is divided into six groups: men’s and women’s individual open groups, men’s and women’s team amateur groups, and men’s and women’s individual amateur groups. The competition is divided into two stages, the preliminaries and the finals. The preliminaries start on July 21st and the competition period is 3 days; the finals start on July 26th. Through seven rounds of preliminaries to determine the top eight in each group, they will enter the final with the athletes who have qualified for the final.

“In order to make the finals more exciting, each group will be ranked in a single round-robin system based on the Berg system, and the top four in each group will then be determined from 1 to 4 through the elimination system.” Director Xu Yuhua revealed that the men’s individual amateur group and the women’s individual amateur group use a time limit of 15 minutes for each side and 10 seconds for each move. Each game lasts about 1 hour. The remaining four groups use 25 minutes for each side, plus 10 seconds for each move, and each game takes about one and a half hours.

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In this competition, the participation of star players will become a highlight. Women’s world champion Ju Wenjun, women’s world No. 1 Hou Yifan, men’s world No. 3 Ding Liren and other 9 international masters will appear in the individual open group.

Lu Zhiyong, director of the office of the competition committee and deputy director of the Hefei Sports Bureau, told reporters that Hefei also won the right to host the three events of chess, chess, and go in the mass competition of the 14th National Games, and became the host in addition to Xi’an , The place where the most projects of the “14th National Games” are hosted, “At present, all the work of the competition has been planned and carefully arranged, and it is basically ready.” Lu Zhiyong said.

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