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You Yingqin

尤颖钦

By the Xiangqi Arena editorial team ·

Games
158
Era covered
1996–2008
Archive record
59W · 60D · 39L

The player

You Yingqin, born in Handan, Hebei in 1975, is the 2008 women’s national individual champion and the 2009 women’s world champion, named a grandmaster in 2005. A student of the Hebei coach Liu Dianzhong, her world title formed part of an unbroken run of Chinese women’s world champions.

She played for the strong Hebei women’s team. The game here shows the precise, efficient conversion that marked her best play.

You Yingqin - Wang Linna, 2000

2000 National Individual Championship · 2000 · You Yingqin (red) vs Wang Linna (black)

You Yingqin, the accomplished Jiangsu grandmaster, takes red against Wang Linna. A crisp Central Cannon converted with real precision.

First blood is a chariot taking a cannon on move twenty-two, and the exchanges come immediately, five in ten moves. You emerges with an extra chariot and passed soldiers, and Wang - down heavy material - resigns. Efficient and exact.

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Red won · 43 moves

The starting position.

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