Introduction to Tu Jingming

Tu Jingming, whose ancestral home is Huzhou, was born in Shanghai in 1922. He studied medicine with his father as a boy and practiced medicine as a young man. He gave up medicine and followed chess because he liked chess. He became famous in the 1940s. In the 1950s, he collaborated with He Shunan, Zhu Jianqiu, Lin Rongxing and Li Wu Shang was also known as the "Five Tiger Generals of East China". In 1955, Tu Jingming and He Shun'an visited Beijing to play chess. They played many games with famous Beijing players Zhang Dekui and Hou Yushan. Many of the boards are familiar to chess fans in the capital. In addition to playing chess, Tu Jingming wrote many chess books, including "Comprehensive Collection of Chinese Chess Scores", "Chess Sea Pickups", "Xiangqi Dictionary", "Xiangqi Practical Endgames" and dozens of other works, which contributed to the development of Chinese chess. made a positive contribution. After the news of Mr. Tu Jingming’s death from illness spread, the chess community expressed condolences and condolences. Chen Xiaokun, the chess master and coach of the Zhejiang chess team, wrote a memorial couplet that reflected Tu Gong’s chess artist life: “One-person chess works can be spread all over the world, and small chess skills can be beneficial. All peoples”.