Master profile
Yu Youhua
于幼华
- Games
- 723
- Years of the dated games
- 1990–2008
- Archive record
- 213W · 287D · 223L
National titles: Men's national individual champion: 2002
The player
于幼华 (Yu Youhua) was a Zhejiang player who later moved to the Railway sports team. He won the national individual championship in 2002, and he was known for bold, uncompromising attacking play.
His best results as Red came with the Pointing Finger, 65.5% over 74 games, even though he played the Central Cannon more than twice as often. His most frequent opponent was Lü Qin: they met 59 times, and Yu won 9 of those games.
In the two games below you can watch the fighter at work: with Black both times, he beats Lü Qin and Hu Ronghua.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 349 games as Red, 374 as Black |
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| Score | 58.6% as Red, 40.6% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (165 games) · Screen Horses as Black (159 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Pointing Finger as Red: 65.5% over 74 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Lü Qin (59 games) |
| Longest game | 266 plies against Zhang Xuechao |
Yu Youhua - Lü Qin, 2005
2005 Qixin Golf Cup National League · 2005 · Lü Qin (red) vs Yu Youhua (black)
Yu Youhua, who won the national title in 2002, was known for bold and uncompromising attacking play. In this league game he has Black against Lü Qin, who also liked to attack, and the game becomes an open fight.
The first capture comes on move fourteen, when Lü Qin's chariot takes a cannon. The exchanges peak around move twenty-two, with six captures in ten plies, and by the end Yu is a cannon up. Beating Lü Qin in the kind of attacking game he played best was a fine result for Yu.
Black won · 47 moves
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Yu Youhua - Hu Ronghua, 1997
1997 National Team Championship · 1997 · Hu Ronghua (red) vs Yu Youhua (black)
Yu Youhua, the attacking player from Zhejiang, has Black against Hu Ronghua at the national team championship. He plays the game in his usual direct way and finishes it with an attack on the red general.
On move eight Hu's cannon takes a soldier, the first capture of the game, and it starts a run of five captures in ten plies. Later Yu keeps both cannons close to the red palace, and a cannon check ends the game. It is a typical Yu Youhua win: direct, fearless and finished by his cannons.
Black won · 51 moves
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