Chinese chess is more popular in which provinces and cities in China

Xingyang is the birthplace of Chinese chess. More than 2,200 years ago, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, and Liu Bang, the king of Han, took Xingyang as the main battlefield, and fought fiercely for 4 years, and took the gap between Xingyang as the boundary to divide the world, becoming one of the most wonderful episodes in the long history of China.

According to the "Historical Records", "the gap and the west are Han, and the gap and the east are Chu." In this way, history has made the chasm "Chu River Han Boundary".

As the gap of the "Chu River Han Boundary", it not only stayed in Xingyang, the "famous county of the East", and in the splendid process of Chinese history, but also stayed on the chessboard of Chinese chess, and achieved the reputation of Xingyang as the capital of Chinese chess.

Located 15 kilometers west of Zhengzhou, Xingyang is the nearest county-level city to the provincial capital of Henan Province, with 9 towns, 4 townships, 2 sub-district offices and 1 scenic area management committee, with a population of 620,000 and an area of 908 square kilometers. Xingyang is the hometown of chess, and the gap between the Chu River and the Han border on the chess board is in Guangwu Town in the north; Xingyang City is the ancestral land of the Zheng family, "the Zheng family in the world is out of Xingyang, and the Zheng family in Xingyang is all over the world", and 12 million descendants of the Zheng family are distributed all over the world. In recent years, Xingyang has been rated as a national county (city) for scientific and technological progress, a national science demonstration pilot county (city), an advanced county (city) of the National Family Planning Association, a provincial civilized and sanitary city, one of the first 23 key counties and cities in Henan to open up to the outside world and one of the 35 counties and cities with expanded powers.

Of course, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, the degree of attention to chess is relatively high, and it is not prevalent anywhere in the country!

Where there are people, it prevails.

China. Chinese Chess.

It is a kind of chess game that originated in China, and the age of its production is unknown. Legend has it that it originated from the Shennong clan in the legendary era.

The monks of the Yuan Dynasty often said in the "Buddha's Chronicles": Shennong takes the sun, moon and stars as the image, and the Tang Xiangguo cow monks and children.

Replace them with chariots, horses, soldiers, and pawns with artillery.

Xiangqi is a traditional Chinese chess puzzle game, which is one of the world's top three chess games along with chess and Go, and is one of the 78 sports officially launched in China, as well as one of the official competitions of the first World Mind Games. Chess is a kind of two-person confrontational game, because of the simple utensils, strong fun, has become a very popular chess activity, approved by the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The place where the chess pieces move is called the chessboard. On the plane of the rectangle, nine parallel vertical lines and ten parallel horizontal lines are drawn to intersect, with a total of ninety intersections. The pieces are placed right at the intersection.

The middle part, that is, the blank space between the fifth and sixth horizontal lines of the chessboard, where the vertical line is drawn at the end, is called the river boundary. In the middle of the chessboard of Chinese chess, there is often a gap with the Chu River written on it.

The words Han Realm, this is the Chu-Han War in the history of the following chess comparison.

Chess is a competitive sport in which two players play against each other. There are 32 pieces in total, divided into two groups, red and black, with 16 pieces each, and each side of the game holds one group. Handsome and General; Scholars & Scholars; Phases and images; The pawn and pawn function exactly the same, just to distinguish red from black.

1.World Chess Championship.

2.World Elite Games [There are five events in the competition, and chess is just one of them]3Asian Chess Championship.

4.Individual chess match.

5.National Men's Chess League.

6.National Women's Chess League.

7.National Youth Chess Championship (Team).

8.National Youth Chess Championship (Individual).

9."Wuyang Cup" National Chess Grandmaster Invitational Tournament.

10."Weikai Cup" National Chess Rating Tournament.

11."Yang Guanxuan Cup" National Chess Open.

12."Jiucheng Real Estate Cup" Chess Tournament [Founded in 2009 and discontinued in 2010. ]13."Hanshin Cup" International Chess Classic.

14."Maoshan Cup" National Chess Championship Invitational Tournament [founded in 2009, discontinued in 2015]15"Zhouzhuang Cup" Cross-Strait Chess Masters.

16.National Chess Championship.

17."Country Garden Cup" National Chess Championship Invitational Tournament.

There are also "Xining Bank Cup" National Champion TV Rapid Chess Tournament, Shaanxi National Champion Rapid Chess Invitational Tournament, Longwan Cup Champion Invitational Tournament, "Dadi Cup" Tournament and so on.

Each side of the chess game has seven types of sixteen pieces. Both sides have five soldiers, two rooks, two horses, two cannons, two elephants, two soldiers, one will be annihilated, the way of the car is to go front and back, left and right, as long as there is no other chess piece to block it, you can go at will to eat each other's chess pieces, horses go to the sun, like to go field, artillery and rook can also go at will, when eating each other's chess pieces need to be spaced apart, soldiers can only go forward and can not turn back.

Features of chessChinese Chess. It is the two of them who take turns to go together, and in terms of tactics, they follow the ancient Sun Tzu's art of war in the battle idea of the soldier who surrenders without a fight, and the good man also has the combat idea. In chess battles, people can improve their thinking ability from the changes in the complex relationships between gong and defense, real and virtual, and the whole and part.

Chinese chess is a very advanced culture, Chinese chess is deeply loved by us, whether in ancient times or modern times, the reason why chess has been prosperous for a long time, mainly because of its own unique charm. Fascinating games, conceived clever and leaky arrangements, it can enlighten people's minds and cultivate people's temperament. And there is a reason for survival and retreat.

Chinese chess originated around the Warring States period, when a kind of Wenbo chess was popular, with 6 pieces on each side. In the Tang Dynasty, there were four types of chess: generals, horses, rooks, and pawns, and the chessboard was composed of 64 squares in black and white, just like chess. Later, Xiangqi was used as a reference to Go, turning 64 squares into 90 points.

In the Song Dynasty, "cannon", "soldier" and "elephant" were added. The Song Dynasty's Shilin Guangji records the earliest chess games that can be seen in China.

In the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of convenience, Xiangqi changed the "will" on one side to "handsome", which is the same as modern Chinese chess. Now, Chinese chess has spread to more than a dozen countries and regions. In Japan and the Philippines, the Chinese Chess Association was also established.

Chess has enthusiasts all over the world and is more popular in places like the Soviet Union.

Chinese chess is only popular in Asia and Southeast Asia. Like Vietnam, South Korea.

After World War II, chess was very popular in the former Soviet Union. Before the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the National Elephant Association had millions of members, more than 2 million registered chess players, and more than 40 million people participated in various competitions. From 1970 to 1984 in the last century, Belgrade and London successively held sensational matches, with the former Soviet star team on one side and the non-Soviet world star team on the other, with 12 players per pair, 10 players on the field, each playing four rounds.

In every match, the former Soviet Union won. (Just like the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 60s of the last century against the world star team);

Chinese chess is only more popular in Asia, and now in addition to Chinese, Vietnamese chess players are making rapid progress, and a few boys have reached the level of strong masters, which has a lot to do with the careful teaching of grandmasters Yang Guanxuan and Hu Ronghua in China.

There are chess enthusiasts all over the world, and there are many women. Chinese chess, on the other hand, is mostly popular in East and Southeast Asia, and the fans are mainly men.

Chess is mainly popular on the European continent and is a pastime for the wise; In recent years, India has begun to popularize chess due to the strong attack of Anand and other chess players, and many very powerful chess players have been born; Chess in North America is mainly used as a pastime among ordinary people.

Chinese chess is only popular in places with a high density of Chinese, such as Malaysia and Singapore, and chess and Go (Go is called "go" in English) are mainly popular abroad