Master profile
Wu Xia
伍霞
- Games
- 182
- Years of the dated games
- 1991–2008
- Archive record
- 72W · 64D · 46L
National titles: Women's national individual champion: 1995, 2006
The player
伍霞 (Wu Xia) played for the Jiangsu team. She won the women's national individual championship in 1995 and won it again in 2006, eleven years later.
The archive holds 182 of her games, and in every one of the 93 she played as Red she opened with the central cannon. Her most frequent opponent was Hu Ming: in 15 games Wu won 2, drew 9 and lost 4.
The game below comes from the 1998 national individual championship. Wu has Black and beats 张国凤 (Zhang Guofeng), who won the women's title three years later.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 93 games as Red, 89 as Black |
|---|---|
| Score | 64% as Red, 50% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (93 games) · Same-Direction Cannons as Black (22 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Counter-Palace Horse as Black: 65.6% over 16 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Hu Ming (15 games) |
| Longest game | 224 plies against Chen Lichun in 2007 |
Career in the archive
Games by year and event
| Year | Event | Games | Won | Drawn | Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1991 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1992 | 1992 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1995 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1995 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1997 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1998 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1999 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2000 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2001 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2002 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2003 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2003 National Xiangqi Individual Championship | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2004 National Xiangqi Team Championship | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2005 National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2006 National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2007 National Xiangqi Team Tournament Women's Group | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2007 Yitai Cup National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2008 National Xiangqi Team Tournament Women's Group | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Undated games | 97 | 33 | 39 | 25 |
Results with each opening
| Opening | Side | Games | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Cannon | Red | 93 | 64% |
| Same-Direction Cannons | Black | 22 | 45.5% |
| Counter-Palace Horse | Black | 16 | 65.6% |
| Mutual Pawn Opening | Black | 10 | 35% |
| Single Horse Defence | Black | 7 | 57.1% |
| Opposite-Direction Cannons | Black | 5 | 80% |
| Screen Horses | Black | 1 | 100% |
| Other openings | Black | 28 | 41.1% |
Most frequent opponents
| Opponent | Games | Won | Drawn | Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hu Ming | 15 | 2 | 9 | 4 |
| Wang Linna | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| You Yingqin | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Wen Jing | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Guo Liping | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Wu Xia - Zhang Guofeng, 1998
1998 National Individual Championship · 1998 · Zhang Guofeng (red) vs Wu Xia (black)
Zhang Guofeng has Red and plays the central cannon in its five-seven cannons form. Wu Xia answers with the single horse defence.
The middle of the game decides it. Black gives up an advisor and a horse but wins a cannon and two soldiers, and then takes every Red soldier that is left. From then on Black stays ahead in material.
Black won · 41 moves
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