On July 28, the Logo of 2009 Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament was announced, and official website of tournament www.chess-pearlspring.com completely opened, which would strive to become the best professional chess website in China. "The historical and cultural famous city, capital of chess" becomes the theme slogan of the grand tournament.
As the intensional image embodiment of events, the Logo will be extensively used in propagandism and competition process. Integral modeling of this Logo presents out the designing sense of blending and rising, blending rich Chinese traditional culture with modern international gaming spirit. With the chessman "soldier " as the conception point, by means of spirit of bravery, aggressiveness and pursuing promotion of "soldier", it transfers the thought of holding Tournament on East-West culture dialogue, wisdom gaming and active aggressiveness. Wielding brush with ink and wash, it implies smooth, harmonious and win-win meaning of Sino-foreign cultural exchange. The kinetic potential of brush pen's "Cliffide Flower" shows huge force contained in Sino-foreign cooperation and exchange and is also in concert with profound calligraphy culture deposits of Pukou. The cap ribbon gently surrounding "soldier" takes Taiji diagram in the Yin Yang Eight Diagrams——the most oldest philosophical speculative theory in China as the foundation and evolves into the diagram of two interactive swimming fishes at the close shot and long shot to make whole logo generate agile vitality, embodying the wisdom gaming view that "the wise man takes pleasure in water and is like water". While national flag color with red and yellow alternate is blended with Chinese traditional ink and wash color each other, representing the creative concept of combination of ancient times and today, era innovation, integrating with the world and expanding Chinese features.
The Logo’s moral is to take the tournament as the chance and to build a platform of holding high end tournaments, showing international image, East-West culture dialogue for Nanjing. Nanjing will also be blended more widely into global city exchange, dialogue, cooperation and development, showing Nanjing's new image of economic development and social civilization of internationalized cultural green capital all over the world.
Meanwhile unique official website of Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament is formally opened. With creation of the best chess profession website in China as a goal, the website is bilingual in Chinese and English, integrates chess popularization, tournament information, direct broadcast of events, gaming exchange and other functions and opens up Blog function for chess enthusiasts and grandmasters to conduct on-line exchange. Meanwhile it introduces the operating mode of commercial websites.
According to difference of time slices, this website is divided into two versions, before tournament and in tournament. It is currently a pre-tournament website. "The encyclopedia of chess", "teaching of chess" and other columns promulgate elementary knowledge of chess and provide chess manual download of notable chess games. The chess enthusiasts can also understand preparation progress status of the tournament, recent playing conditions of the invited chess players as well as culture, wind regime and more at the sponsoring site. There are multiple interactive games related closely to the tournament in the "on-line game" column. In the tournament, the website will realize direct broadcast in synchronization for the chessboard and competition field. By that time, extensive chess enthusiasts can enjoy the sight of field scene of tournament, experience feeling of being personally on the scene and conduct interactive comments for chess games with national team coach, famous team member, etc.
Currently the male players deciding to participate in Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament are: Topalov, Bulgaria, the 1st in the world rankings, Carlson, Norway, the 3rd in the world rankings; Yakovenko, Russia, the 5th in the world ranking; Leko, Hungary, the 7th in the world ranking; Radjabov, Azerbaijan, the 8th in the world ranking; and Chinese player Wang Yue with the highest international ranking, just generated in July, ranking 13th in the world. The female players attending the World Chess Grand Prix are: Hou Yifan (CHN), Mary (FR), Zhao Xue (CHN), Tatiana (RU), Zhu Chen (QA), Alina (AM), Xu Yuhua (CHN), Shen Yang (CHN), Mongontuul (MN), Masa (EC), Zenabo (AZ) Lano (UA).
As the first station of the chess grand slam tournament, Nanjing will operate the top-level tournament by using international thinking and following the world rule, build an operating platform of holding international high end gymnastic events for internationalization, modernization and future development of Nanjing, build a platform of showing Nanjing's international image in the world, build a platform for East-West cultural dialogue, making the grand tournament become an international pageant integrating sport, culture and wisdom, and making people enjoy a gymnastic pageant, cultural great event and sapiential regale.
Source:www.longhoo.net
