Master profile
Zhao Xinxin
赵鑫鑫
- Games
- 451
- Years of the dated games
- 2001–2008
- Archive record
- 183W · 195D · 73L
National titles: Men's national individual champion: 2007
The player
赵鑫鑫 (Zhao Xinxin) was born in Wenling, Zhejiang, on 29 June 1988, and became a master by winning the national under-16 championship in 2002. In September 2007, at nineteen, he won the national individual championship in Hohhot and received the grandmaster title with it. He was one of the strongest players of the generation that came up after 2000.
As Red his best opening was the Pointing Finger, with 68.3% from 71 games. His most frequent opponent was Lü Qin, and 12 of their 26 games were drawn.
In the game below you meet the young champion at his sharpest, against Lü Qin in the year of his national title.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 249 games as Red, 202 as Black |
|---|---|
| Score | 65.3% as Red, 58.4% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (166 games) · Screen Horses as Black (88 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Pointing Finger as Red: 68.3% over 71 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Lü Qin (26 games) |
| Longest game | 270 plies against Wan Chunlin |
Zhao Xinxin - Lü Qin, 2007
2007 Yitai Cup National Individual Championship · 2007 · Lü Qin (red) vs Zhao Xinxin (black)
Zhao Xinxin has Black against Lü Qin at the 2007 national championship, the event he won at nineteen. Both players follow six moves of the Central Cannon main line before either side leaves known theory.
A soldier falls on move ten, and the sharpest play comes around move twenty-two. In the ending Zhao's horses win an elephant, an advisor and a cannon, and he finishes a horse up against one of the game's great endgame players. For a young champion it was a serious test, and he passed it.
Black won · 57 moves
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