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He also made four appearances in total at the Men's Asian Team Chess Championship (1979–1981, 1991–1993) with an overall record of 17 games played (+10, =4, -3). In 1986 he was appointed to the post of Chief Trainer of the Chinese Institute of Chess and head coach of the Chinese national chess team. He was succeeded by Ye Jiangchuan in 2000.
China's 2008 Olympiad Team: left to right, Wang Yue, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Wang Hao China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 2012, and 2014; the men's team winning gold at the 2014 Olympiad, and the average rating for the country's top ten players third in the FIDE rankings as of April 2023.
Song Yuxin has represented her country in the World and Asian Youth Chess Championships. In 2018 she won silver medal in World Youth Chess Championship in girls U14 age group. [1] Since 2020, Song Yuxin regularly participates in the finals of the Chinese Women's Chess Championships. Her best achievement in this tournaments is 2nd place in 2023. [2]
Hu Ronghua first won the Chinese National Xiangqi Championship in 1960, at age 15, the youngest record ever. Hu went on to win the next nine consecutive national championships, which gave him a 10-championship streak from 1960 to 1979 (due to the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese National Xiangqi Competition was not held annually during that period).
The Great Music Bureau (大樂署) responsible for yayue and yanyue (燕樂, entertainment music and dance for banquet) The Royal Academy founded by Emperor Gaozu "Pear Garden", an acting and music academy founded by Emperor Xuanzong. The Drum and Pipes Bureau (鼓吹署) responsible for ceremonial music.
Game of the Three Friends (Chinese: 三友棋, Pinyin: Sān-yǒu-qí ; also called Sanyou Qi or Three Friends Chess) is a three-player variant of the game xiangqi ("Chinese chess"). It was invented by Zheng Jinde ( Chinese : 鄭晉德 , Zhèng Jìndé ) during the Qing dynasty (1661–1722 AD).
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In his book The Genealogy of Chess (which won the 'Book of the Year' 1998 award from the editors of GAMES Magazine), Li surveys evidence regarding the origins of chess and concludes that an early version of chess called xiangqi was invented in China in 203 BC, by General Han Xin, who supposedly drew on the earlier game liubo as well as on the teachings of The Art of War.