Master profile
Chen Lichun
陈丽淳
- Games
- 199
- Years of the dated games
- 1999–2008
- Archive record
- 87W · 59D · 53L
National titles: Women's national individual champion: 2017
The player
陈丽淳 (Chen Lichun) played for the Guangdong team. She was among the leading women players for more than a decade before she won the women's national individual championship in 2017.
The archive holds 199 of her games. As Red she opened with the Central Cannon in 77 of them and scored 63.6% with it. Her most frequent opponent was Wang Linna: they played 17 games, and most of them were drawn, with 9 draws, 3 wins and 5 losses.
The game below comes from the 2007 women's individual championship. Chen has Black and beats Wang Linna, who had already won the women's title twice, in 1997 and 2000.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 104 games as Red, 95 as Black |
|---|---|
| Score | 61.5% as Red, 55.3% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (77 games) · Screen Horses as Black (24 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Central Cannon as Red: 63.6% over 77 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Wang Linna (17 games) |
| Longest game | 234 plies against Gang Qiuying in 2004 |
Career in the archive
Games by year and event
| Year | Event | Games | Won | Drawn | Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1999 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 2000 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2001 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2002 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 2003 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2003 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2004 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2005 National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | 2006 National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2007 Yitai Cup National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2007 National Xiangqi Team Tournament Women's Group | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2008 National Xiangqi Team Tournament Women's Group | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Undated games | 136 | 54 | 42 | 40 |
Results with each opening
| Opening | Side | Games | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Cannon | Red | 77 | 63.6% |
| Pointing Finger | Red | 12 | 58.3% |
| Flying Elephant | Red | 10 | 65% |
| Horse Opening | Red | 2 | 25% |
| Palace-Corner Cannon | Red | 2 | 50% |
| Advisor-Corner Cannon | Red | 1 | 0% |
| Screen Horses | Black | 24 | 52.1% |
| Mutual Pawn Opening | Black | 11 | 40.9% |
| Counter-Palace Horse | Black | 10 | 65% |
| Same-Direction Cannons | Black | 7 | 71.4% |
| Opposite-Direction Cannons | Black | 1 | 0% |
| Other openings | Black | 42 | 57.1% |
Most frequent opponents
| Opponent | Games | Won | Drawn | Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wang Linna | 17 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
| Zhang Guofeng | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Jin Haiying | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Gang Qiuying | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Tang Dan | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Chen Lichun - Wang Linna, 2007
2007 Yitai Cup National Women’s Championship · 2007 · Wang Linna (red) vs Chen Lichun (black)
Wang Linna has Red and opens with the pointing finger, then pushes a second soldier to make the two-headed snake. Chen Lichun has Black.
Black wins two soldiers with a cannon, the second on move 18. Black is now two soldiers ahead. In the middle of the game Red's cannon takes a horse and a pair of chariots comes off. Later Black's cannon takes Red's cannon, and Black ends the record with two cannons against a horse and a cannon, and one soldier more.
Black won · 34 moves
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