Master profile
Wang Jialiang
王嘉良
By the Xiangqi Arena editorial team ·
- Games
- 229
- Era covered
- 1993
- Archive record
- 95W · 54D · 80L
The player
Wang Jialiang, born in Shandong in 1932, was the founding father of the 'northern school' of xiangqi and, though never national champion, one of the most influential figures the game has known. National runner-up at the very first championship in 1956 - where he beat the great Yang Guanlin in their individual game - he was named a grandmaster in 1984, and was known throughout the game as the 'Northeast Tiger'.
His chess was fierce and sacrificial, and his influence off the board was just as large: he founded and edited the magazine North Chess Arts in 1979, authored a shelf of opening and endgame books, and trained three world champions - Zhao Guorong, Wang Linna and Guo Liping. He led the Heilongjiang team for decades as player and head coach. He died in 2025.
The game here catches the Northeast Tiger late in a long and pioneering career.
Wang Jialiang - Huang Yong, 1993
1993 National Team Championship · 1993 · Wang Jialiang (red) vs Huang Yong (black)
Wang Jialiang, the great pioneer of the northeastern school and the first true challenger to the southern masters in the 1950s and 60s, takes red here late in a long career. A grandmaster of the older generation, still sharp.
A cannon takes the first soldier on move twenty-one and the exchanges are heavy - seven captures in ten moves in the late twenties. Wang keeps two cannons and a clear material edge, and converts. A glimpse of a player who helped make xiangqi a truly national game.
Red won · 47 moves
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