Master profile
Zhao Guorong
赵国荣
- Games
- 1,184
- Years of the dated games
- 1990–2008
- Archive record
- 445W · 531D · 208L
National titles: Men's national individual champion: 1990, 1992, 1995, 2008
The player
赵国荣 (Zhao Guorong) was born in Harbin in September 1961 and studied under 王嘉良 (Wang Jialiang), who was known as the Northeast Tiger; Zhao's own name, the New Northeast Tiger, comes from him. Zhao won the national individual championship in 1990, 1992, 1995 and 2008, eighteen years apart from first to last. In 1991 he was world individual champion and a member of the Chinese team that won the team title at the same event. He later led the Heilongjiang team to the 2013 national league title.
In the archive he opened with the Central Cannon in 361 games as Red and answered with the Screen Horses in 319 games as Black. He played Lü Qin more than anyone else, 108 times, with 17 wins, 60 draws and 31 losses.
The two games below are wins at the national individual championship: over 吕钦 (Lü Qin) in 1995, the year he won the title, and over 胡荣华 (Hu Ronghua) in 1999.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 608 games as Red, 576 as Black |
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| Score | 66.3% as Red, 53.4% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (361 games) · Screen Horses as Black (319 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Pointing Finger as Red: 69.7% over 127 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Lü Qin (108 games) |
| Longest game | 381 plies against Jiang Chuan |
Zhao Guorong - Lü Qin, 1995
1995 National Individual Championship · 1995 · Zhao Guorong (red) vs Lü Qin (black)
Zhao Guorong, a four-time national champion and an all-round player of the northern school, has red against his great rival Lü Qin at the individual championship. He opens with the Flying Elephant, which keeps Lü Qin away from the sharp cannon fights he liked best.
Nothing is captured until a pair of chariots is traded on move nine. Then the exchanges keep coming, five captures in ten plies, until Zhao reaches a position where his cannons and soldiers win. He plays precisely and without hurry against one of the best players of the time.
Red won · 50 moves
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Zhao Guorong - Hu Ronghua, 1999
1999 National Individual Championship · 1999 · Zhao Guorong (red) vs Hu Ronghua (black)
Zhao Guorong has red against Hu Ronghua, two champions a generation apart, at the 1999 individual championship. Zhao plays a slow manoeuvring game, keeping the pieces on the board and probing until Black gives something away.
Nothing is captured until a chariot trade on move fifteen, which is late, and then the game sharpens quickly, with the decisive exchanges around move twenty-eight. Zhao comes out of them a cannon up and wins the ending without trouble. Beating Hu was the mark of a great player, and Zhao beat him more often than most.
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