The story of chess king Xie Jun and chess

It should be said that the Women's World Chess Championship is the most sustained and fierce competition in the world's sports competitions. A chess player who signs up to participate must go through the district competition, inter-district competition, candidate competition and challenge competition. Only the final winner can win the throne of the "Queen" of chess. This series of competitions lasted for two years, during which they had to compete with dozens of world-class chess players for nearly a hundred games. Each contestant had to undergo huge challenges and tests of intelligence and physical strength. Xie Jun, a 21-year-old player from Beijing, experienced all kinds of unexpected twists and turns, and finally walked through this arduous path step by step, and came to the "back seat" of chess, known as the "Palace of Elegance".

Xie Jun lives in Jiuxianqiao in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. Since he was 7 years old, he and his father have watched adults play chess on the side of the road. Back home, his father became Xie Jun’s first Chinese chess teacher. The first chess move my father taught Xie Jun was "The Immortal Guides the Way." "Why can't pawns retreat?" Xie Jun asked her father curiously, and her father's answer sounded like a chess lesson but also a lesson in life: "A warrior can only move forward bravely, not retreat, and must have a heroic spirit that will never come back!" "Xie Jun may not really understand the meaning of "going forward bravely" at the time, but it is this kind of influence with the true meaning of life that has become the foundation of Xie Jun's persistent pursuit of chess career. It is this courageous spirit that keeps her from bowing in front of strong opponents and refusing to admit defeat in difficult situations.

Under the guidance of her father, Xie Jun won the Beijing Children's Chinese Chess Competition at the age of 10. No adult amateur chess player in the Jiuxianqiao area could match her. At that time, Beijing was training young chess players. Coach Wang Bijun of the chess academy called Xie Jun to the chess academy and played a game of Chinese chess with Xie Jun on the small chess table on the second floor of the chess academy. He found that Xie Jun had a good foundation and a good sense of chess. So coach Wang Bijun taught Xie Jun the basic moves of chess, and then played a game of chess with her. He was surprised to find that Xie Jun had a strong sense of "attacking the king". Coupled with Xie Jun's quick thinking and "big picture perspective", Coach Wang immediately decided to accept this girl into the Beijing team. From then on, Xie Jun embarked on a bumpy journey in chess.

The conditions in the amateur chess class at the Beijing Sports School are extremely difficult. The classroom is located under the Shichahai Grandstand. In the summer, her home is far away from the sports school. It takes more than an hour by car and it is extremely hot. If you don't get angry, your hands and feet will freeze even if you light a fire in winter. Xie Jun was also different from other students. She had to live alone in the duty room of the sports school. Other classmates are picked up and dropped off by their parents every day, but she only goes home once a week; even so, she does not let her parents pick up and drop off her. In this way, Xie Jun studied chess at the sports school for three and a half years. Because of her diligence and hard work, she made rapid progress. At the 5th National Games in 1983, she was included in the women's adult group. Although she was still a minor, she defeated old and new chess players and won the championship. In 1984, 14-year-old Xie Jun won sixth place in the national competition and was promoted to national master.

Some mathematicians have calculated the changes in chess, and the results are astonishing. For any player playing chess, there are 318 billion ways to move in the first four moves! As for the future ones, Counting them is even more difficult to count. This is probably why the poet Goethe praised chess as "the touchstone of human wisdom". One can imagine what kind of hardship the world champion must go through. After Xie Jun joined the national training team, the training became even more difficult. The semi-intensive training was almost cruel. The training team stipulates that during game training, no draw is allowed within 40 moves. She has to train for more than ten hours every day. Xie Jun never follows blindly when learning and playing chess, and likes to think independently. Some chess players just play whatever the coach teaches them, but Xie Jun doesn't do that. Even in the national training team, she still often "butts" with the coach. Sometimes she thinks the chess game is not going smoothly, so she doesn't listen to the coach's instructions.

It's a bit of a gain. In 1988, Xie Jun went abroad for the first time and won the Asian Women's Youth Championship in one fell swoop. The coach sometimes gets angry, but after he gets angry, he likes Xie Jun even more. After a lot of hard work, at the end of the year in the Olympic team competition,

With a record of 9 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, she contributed to the Chinese team's fourth place.

In 1989, Xie Jun was promoted to international master and won the national championship.

In 1990, Xie Jun experienced the most difficult moment in her chess career, and it was also the luckiest moment. This, Xie Jun easily won the Asian Division Championship. In July, when Xie Jun returned to Kuala Lumpur, she unexpectedly went to Kuala Lumpur twice in the next year to participate in the preliminaries of the world "backseat" competition. Kuala Lumpur has a pleasant climate in March. Huge challenges from different aspects are waiting for her. Due to insufficient funds, coaches and translators cannot come to compete. In such an important competition, Xie Jun could only go to Nanyang alone. At this time, the sun in Kuala Lumpur was scorching, and the loneliness in a foreign country frightened her. There are 18 female contestants participating in this inter-district competition, and there is only one Eastern contestant. Loneliness,

A deeper level of loneliness, has formed a psychological pressure. How did Xie Jun feel when he saw the huge lineup of the former Soviet team - 6 chess players, 6 coaches, team leaders, translators, doctors, and reporters - like a big family? Jun cried, and she lay on the hotel bed, feeling aggrieved and sad.

, Over the years, Xie Jun has wanted to play with this night. Xie Jun could not sleep for a long time. Leigh's game scenes are still tormenting her. A long-admired female hero competes in a showdown. If she can defeat her, she tells the teacher coquettishly, how exciting it will be! . But Xie Jun lost, and what she thought was the best start failed to work. She will never forget the moment when she lost the chess game. When Gaprindashvili smiled and leaned over her head to kiss her gently, her cold lips burned Xie Jun's skin like charcoal fire. Xie Jun was awakened by Teacher Wang Pinzhang’s international call. Xie Jun cried again about his mood, thoughts and war situation. Teacher Wang Pinzhang’s comfort, encouragement and fighting methods for future chess players,