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The young Uzbek team winning this year’s Olympiad came as a pleasant surprise, but it is not an isolated example in the recent shift of world chess power. Uzbek boys, Kazakh girls, Azeri youth, Chinese, Indian and Iranian young phenoms ever more frequently lit the chess sky. What do their countries have in common? They all once lined the Silk Road.
A Taiwanese self-taught shogi player on Sunday defeated a Chinese opponent to win the Eighth International Shogi Tournament, which was held online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shogi, also known as Japanese chess or the “Game of Generals,” is a two-player strategy board game that is a variant of chess.
Chang Ching-ting’s (張京鼎) victory meant that Xu Kanyun (許衎昀) of China came second, while third place was shared by Munkhzul Turmunkh of Mongolia and Joost Berkvens of the Netherlands.
The virtual tournament was part of this year’s International Shogi Festival, which also consisted of an introduction to the Japanese game, online