Yi Xiaofeng, the international chess super referee and the referee of this competition, said: The starting point of the pre-season game of the elephant armor is high and the scale is large, which can be called a chess feast during the epidemic.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2, China Chess Association News, 2020 National Chess Men’s League a preseason will start at 19:30 every night from April 3 to April 11. Ten champion teams, including Sichuan, Guangdong, Shanghai and Zhejiang, signed up for the competition. They will warm up before the official start of the season through the Internet, this is the first preseason held in 18 years since the founding of the national chess men’s league.
This game adopts the time-tight fast chess elimination system, that is, two players play each time, two players start at the same time, each side is 10 minutes, 3 minutes in step, and 10 seconds in each step. If you want to play fast chess, you can play super fast chess first. If you win or lose, the game will end. For example, super fast chess game and, if you change it, add one round to the first round, 3 minutes per side, and win against black chess. Through the preseason, all participating teams will be able to fully practice and enter the competition in advance.
Yi Xiaofeng, the international super referee of chess and the referee of this competition, said: “The starting point of the pre-season game of the elephant armor is high and the scale is large, which can be called a chess feast during the epidemic. The pre-season matches are all eliminated, and the battle will be more intense. Every game must be won or lost, and the game must be wonderful. In order to meet the needs of online competitions, we have appropriately shortened the total duration of the competitions so that the majority of chess fans can enjoy the happiness of chess easily and happily.”
Yan Xiaofeng said: “The chess project has a superior mass base and is suitable for conducting competitions on the Internet. During the epidemic, a series of high-quality online competitions were launched, which not only enriched the home life of chess fans, but also further explored the path of online competitions of high-level competitions and improved the functions of chess online platforms, realize the integration and development of online chess games.”
Although the winning or losing of the game will not affect the ranking of points in the season, every team is eager to try in the preseason game launched for the first time. Xu Chao, coach of the chess team of Jiangsu Hite Club, said: “Although the preseason is not the first match, we will still take it seriously and take advantage of this great opportunity to get familiar with the new competition system as soon as possible to prepare for the 2020 league.”
It is understood that at 19:30 on the evening of April 3, the first match between Heilongjiang xiangqi team and Jiangsu Haite club xiangqi team will be held in the pre-season of Xiangjia. All the contests of this preseason will be broadcast live on the CCTV sports client and the daily chess APP.