The 2nd Shanghai Cup Chess Master Open will open on September 18th, and the final will be held on the top of "Shencheng"

On the morning of September 8, the press conference of the 2nd Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open was held in Nanxiang Town, Jiading District. The organizing committee announced that this competition will be held in Jiading Nanxiang and Shanghai Center from September 18th to 21st. Participants from home and abroad gathered the "chess" and will come to the "Shencheng Top" Shanghai Center on the afternoon of the 21st. Essence

According to the Shanghai Chess Academy Dean Shan Xiaoli, compared with the first session, there are three innovations in the Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open. First, the finals of this competition will be held on the 119th floor of the Shanghai Center. Regardless of geographical location or chess skills, the Shanghai Cup Chess Masters Open Finals are all true "peak duels".

Second, this competition has added amateur group competitions on the basis of the professional group, overseas group, youth group competition and celebrity invitations last year. The amateur group competition was held in July to September. The stations were located in Jiading, Huangpu, Xuhui, Jing'an, Pudong, Hongkou, Yangpu, Baoshan, Putuo and other areas. For the "Thousand Tournaments" for the amateur group.

The third innovation is to invite amateur chess players and chess enthusiasts at the opening ceremony to play against AI chess robots. At the same time, the interaction between chess masters and chess enthusiasts will be added.

It is understood that the top priority of this event is still the offline game of the professional group. The professional group competition continued to invite 23 men's players and 7 women chess players, as well as one of the host men and female chess players, a total of 32 players participating in the competition. Wang Tianyi, Zheng Weitong, Meng Chen, Jiang Chuan, Wang Yang, Hong Zhi, Zhao Xinxin, Xie Jing, Lu Qin, Sun Yongzheng, and Tang Dan and Wang Linna and other top players will fight the Shanghai Cup again.

In addition, the overseas competition has attracted 22 World Chess Federation Member Units from Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania to participate in the competition. According to incomplete statistics, about 500 chess players from different countries and regions participated in the sea election. After layer selection, the overseas group will eventually decide the online competition of nearly 80 players to participate in the competition.

As a brand competition independently founded in Shanghai, the first Shanghai Cup Chess Master Open was successfully held last year, attracting 20 participating teams from the four continents, and also received hundreds of millions of people. About 1.7 million chess enthusiasts and nearly 6.5 million people watched the live broadcast of the event and achieved good response.

Author: Wu Yan

Edit: Gu Miao

Editor in charge: Shen Lei

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