Master profile
Gao Hua
高华
By the Xiangqi Arena editorial team ·
- Games
- 62
- Era covered
- 1995–1998
- Archive record
- 14W · 19D · 29L
The player
Gao Hua, born in Bozhou, Anhui in 1949, is the 1985 women’s national individual champion and the 1986 Asian Cup women’s individual champion, named a grandmaster in 1985. She was a genuine pioneer: with no women’s championship yet in existence, she competed in men’s events - the only woman among the 86 players at the 1974 national tournament, and a member of the Anhui men’s team.
She played for Anhui across a long career and was later certified as a national-level arbiter. The game here shows the deeply prepared, technical style of one of the women’s game’s founding champions.
Gao Hua - Wang Linna, 1998
1998 National Individual Championship · 1998 · Gao Hua (red) vs Wang Linna (black)
Gao Hua takes red against Wang Linna in a deeply theoretical Central Cannon - fifteen moves of main-line book - at the individual championship. A patient, well-prepared win.
The book runs long, first blood a cannon taking a soldier on move twenty-two, and the sharpest play comes in the forties. Gao keeps two chariots and two horses and the better coordination, and converts. Preparation and technique in equal measure.
Red won · 46 moves
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