Youngor Chinese Chess League Division A

Youngor Chinese Chess League Division A
Report by WGM Gu Xiaobing

Youngor Chinese Chess League Division A will be held in Ningbo,China from April 16. Chinese Chess Association and China’s renowned competition “Youngor” will be co-organizing this tournament. There will be 10 teams joining the A league tournament for this Chinese Chess league division A Tournament and it will be played under the Double Round-Robin system.

This year’s tournament will start April 16 and end in December. It will be held in Ningbo, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Beijing. These will take place in each city. What is worth noticing is that Chinese Chess League Division A will appear in Shanghai World Expo from July 23-26, and also the newly built for 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou.

The Chinese Chess League Division A started in 2005, until now it has taken place five times. Beijing Aigo chess team was the champion for the first year. Shanghai Jianqiao University Chess Team was the champion last year. For each year, the last two teams from A Division will be moved to Division B; while the top 2 teams in Division B will be moved to Division A. Each year, there’ll be around 20 teams in Division B. The competition is very fierce! For both A and B divisions, each team consists of 5 players; 3 males and 2 females. Each team is allowed to invite 2 foreigners; one male and one female for each game.

The website for the Chinese Chess League Division A is: http://games.sports.cn/chessorg.ccl2010/index.html

The Chinese Chess League Division A games will be broadcasted live around the world this year. The live broadcast page is: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

2010 Chinese Chess Association Division A Press Conference and Signature Ceremony was already held during Mar. 24 in Ningbo. Youngor Ltd. Company is to sponsor this event and will be the event’s new strategic partner.

Youngor’s main focus of business in fashion, real estate and equity investment.It’s a multi-national company with more than 50,000 employees. Younger will be sponsoring the Chinese chess league division A with 1.7 million RMB.