Master profile
Zhao Xinxin
赵鑫鑫
By the Xiangqi Arena editorial team ·
- Games
- 461
- Era covered
- 2001–2008
- Archive record
- 190W · 198D · 73L
The player
Zhao Xinxin, born in Wenling, Zhejiang in 1988, is the 2007 national individual champion - taken at nineteen, the year he was named a grandmaster - and the 2009 world champion. He added the Asian individual title in 2017, and won the national under-16 championship as a teenager in 2002.
One of the strongest players of the post-2000 generation, he starred for the Zhejiang team. The game here catches the young champion at his sharpest, against one of the game’s great endgame technicians.
Zhao Xinxin - Lü Qin, 2007
2007 Yitai Cup National Individual Championship · 2007 · Lü Qin (red) vs Zhao Xinxin (black)
Zhao Xinxin, the two-time national champion and one of the strongest of the post-2000 generation, takes Black against Lü Qin. Deep opening theory - twelve moves of the Central Cannon main line - before either side deviates.
A soldier falls on move nineteen and the sharpest play comes in the forties. Zhao’s extra horse in the ending is the decisive detail, and he converts it against one of the game’s great endgame players. A young champion passing a serious test.
Black won · 57 moves
The starting position.
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