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You Yingqin

尤颖钦

By the Xiangqi Arena team ·

Games
156
Years of the dated games
1996–2008
Archive record
58W · 59D · 39L

National titles: Women's national individual champion: 2008

The player

尤颖钦 (You Yingqin) played for the Hebei women's team and won the women's national individual championship in 2008.

The archive holds 156 of her games. The dated ones run from 1996 to 2008, and her busiest year there is 2003, with 15 games. As Red she opened with the Central Cannon in 63 games. Her most frequent opponent was Wang Linna: they played 14 games, and 8 of them were drawn.

The game below is her win over Wang Linna at the 2000 national individual championship, the event where Wang Linna won the women's title.

In the archive

In the archive
As Red / as Black78 games as Red, 78 as Black
Score59.6% as Red, 52.6% as Black
Most played systemsCentral Cannon as Red (63 games) · Screen Horses as Black (33 games)
Best-scoring systemScreen Horses as Black: 60.6% over 33 games
Most frequent opponentWang Linna (14 games)
Longest game178 plies against Chen Lichun in 2007

Career in the archive

Games by year and event

Games by year and event
YearEventGamesWonDrawnLost
19961996 National Xiangqi Individual Championship1001
19961996 National Xiangqi Team Championship1010
19971997 National Xiangqi Team Championship2101
19971997 National Xiangqi Individual Championship1100
19981998 National Xiangqi Individual Championship1100
19991999 National Xiangqi Team Championship1100
20002000 National Xiangqi Individual Championship2101
20012001 National Xiangqi Individual Championship5311
20022002 National Xiangqi Team Championship3201
20032003 National Xiangqi Team Championship9441
20032003 National Xiangqi Individual Championship6312
20042004 National Xiangqi Team Championship9531
20052005 National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament5212
20062006 National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament8332
20072007 National Xiangqi Team Tournament Women's Group4220
20072007 Yitai Cup National Xiangqi Women's Individual Tournament2002
20082008 National Xiangqi Team Tournament Women's Group1100
Undated games95284324

Results with each opening

Results with each opening
OpeningSideGamesScore
Central CannonRed6360.3%
Palace-Corner CannonRed530%
Flying ElephantRed487.5%
Horse OpeningRed475%
Advisor-Corner CannonRed150%
Pointing FingerRed10%
Screen HorsesBlack3360.6%
Mutual Pawn OpeningBlack550%
Counter-Palace HorseBlack150%
Opposite-Direction CannonsBlack10%
Same-Direction CannonsBlack10%
Other openingsBlack3748.6%

Most frequent opponents

Most frequent opponents
OpponentGamesWonDrawnLost
Wang Linna14185
Zhao Guanfang10451
Wu Xia9432
Wen Jing9351
Zhang Guofeng9153

All 156 games in the archive

You Yingqin - Wang Linna, 2000

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

You Yingqin has Red and opens with the central cannon. Wang Linna brings her own cannon to the centre from the other side, which makes the opposite-direction cannons.

Red's chariot reaches Black's back rank early and wins material there, and later Red takes both advisors. By the end of the record Black's general has no advisor or elephant left, and Red has four soldiers against two.

Ply 0 of 85

Red won · 43 moves

The starting position.

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