Standings after round 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1. Zhao, Jun g CHN 2580 * . . ½ . . . . 1 . 1 1 3½ 2908 2. Ding, Liren...
Chinese Championship
Ding Liren and Bu XiangzhiChinese Chess Championships 2011Top chess event in Asia The Chinese Chess Championships 2011 will take place from 30th March to 10th April 2011 in Xinghua, Jiangsu, China. It will be an 11 rounds competition with...
Asian Zone 3.5 Chess Championships
Asian Zone 3.5 Chess ChampionshipsBu Xiangzhi and Li Chao B qualify, Ju Wenjun and Shen Yang sharing first in women’s event Asian Zone 3.5 Chess Championships were held from 20th to 28th March in Tianjin, China. The Men’s tournament...
Bu leads Asian Zone 3.5
Asian Zone 3.5 Chess ChampionshipsBu Xiangzhi singled out on the top in men’s tournamentChessdom report Asian Zone 3.5 Chess Championships are taking place from 20th to 28th March in Tianjin, China. The Men’s tournament is a qualifier for the...
Asian Zone 3.5 Chess Championships
Asian Zone 3.5 Chess Championships20th to 28th March in Tianjin, ChinaReport by chessdom Asian Zone 3.5 Chess Championships are taking place from 20th to 28th March in Tianjin, China. The Men’s tournament is a qualifier for the 2011 World...
Beijing to host SportAccord World Mind Games
Beijing to host first SportAccord World Mind Games in December08:57, February 09, 2011 The first SportAccord World Mind Games will be held on Dec 8 to 17 in Beijing Conference Center, the SportAccord confirmed on Monday in its official...
‘I’m just a normal teenager’
World’s youngest ever women’s chess champion: ‘I’m just a normal teenager’Hou Yifan, the 16-year-old chess prodigy, tells Peter Foster about training, travelling – and Oliver Twist.By Peter FosterBeijing 9:00PM GMT 29 Jan 2011 There is nothing in the slightest...
Yifan, best non-Olympic athlete in China
Lin Dan, Wang Meng win China’s CCTV Sports Personality of the YearEnglish.news.cn 2011-01-17 00:15:43 BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Badminton player Lin Dan and Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng won the best male and female Athlete of the Year...
China rises through the new Chess Queen
Op-Ed ColumnistChina Rises, and CheckmatesBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFPublished: January 8, 2011New York Times If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage...
Hail to the new Chess Queen
Artwork by Mike Magnan Friday December 31, 2010Hail to the new queen of chessCHESS By QUAH SENG SUN A 16-year-old chess prodigy from China has emerged as the new women’s world champ. NOBODY who had met Hou Yifan in...