China’s chess revolution: From being banned during cultural revolution to having both men’s and women’s world champions

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When Ding Liren defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi to win the world chess championship earlier this year, it was the first time in history that a man from China had claimed the most vaunted crown in the sport. But it wasn’t the first time that China had produced a world champion in the sport. The Asian country has a long history of producing women’s chess champions that could easily rival the Soviet Union’s track record of men’s champions — Xie Jun claimed the women’s world championship title in 1991, before players like Zhu Chen, Xu Yuhua, Hou Yifan, Tan Zhongyi and Ju...