Five-Ram Cup: LU "Overcomes" HU
Qin LU, the veteran Guangdong street fighter, won the Five-Ram Cup in early January. This tournament is an elite clash of present and former Chinese champions, held annually during or after Christmas (i.e. before Chinese New Years), always in Guangzhou.
LU was propelled by a gritty end-game victory with Black over the illustrious Rong Hua HU of Shanghai. As reported in this zine, HU won his fourteenth Chinese championship in November, and then declared that his younger rivals had not "overcome" him. LU bided his time, and let his pieces do the talking.
The event was also notable for the good result of the often out-gunned Manchurian GM HanMing TAO. Final standings.
Thanks to Bich Ho TRAN for posting this information on rec.games.chinese-chess. The HU-LU game can be found in TRAN’s post of 01/10/2001.
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Chinese Championship Games
Peter Sung has added 294 games from November’s Chinese championship to the database on his homepage.
In the database, Peter has added a link straight to the new games. They can be read on-line, or downloaded and read later using Cchview 3.5, available here.
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Older news
7 December 2000
Paris not hosting the World Cup
Our sources tell the eighth World Cup, due in 2001, will not be in Paris. The backup site is Macau, and if this falls through, China.
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Chinese national championships
RongHua HU, 55, made history again by winning the national championship tournament for the 14th time. In the first three rounds he drew twice, then lost but finished with 6 straight wins and a draw.
YinChuan XU and Qin LU finished a full point after HU.
Ladies champion is LinNa WANG with a tiebreak win over the new star GuanFang ZHAO. GuoFeng ZHANG finished half a point behind.
In 1997, both HU and WANG also won the Chinese championships.
Results:
Men
Women
Read HU's own comments on the tournament and his rivals:
"Rong Hua HU on the Chinese championship" by Bill Brydon.
source: Xiangqi Homepage and David Woo in rec.games.chinese-chess
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GM Rong Hua HU is the Chinese Champion!
Xiangqi's greatest player ever has just won his 14th national championship. This qualifies him to play in the Seventh
World Cup, due to be held in Paris in 2001.
Here are some games HU played at the MSO Singapore 2000.
For chessplayers, this is like Karpov winning the year's biggest
tournament ahead of Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand, or even a bit like Lasker winning in New York in 1924.
Read Bill Brydon's article "Rong Hua HU - Xiangqi's Lion Roars Again" about GM HU's past, present and future.
source: David Woo, in rec.games.chinese-chess
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October 18 2000
Lingen and Nägler are German Champions
Team championship (best 3 results of 4 tournaments)
results.
Individual championship, 7-8 October 2000
6 players, round-robin tournament results.
source: Dr. Michael Nägler and Deutscher Xiangqi Bund
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