At noon on November 12, the 4th "Sun Tzu's Art of War Cup" National Amateur Go Open concluded at the Shenghao Lijing Hotel in Huimin County, Binzhou, Shandong Province. The tournament featured an Open Division, an Over-45 Division, a Masters Division, a 4-dan Division and a 3-dan Division. A total of 543 players and parents from 17 provinces across the country took part. After three and a half days of intense competition, Zhou Zhenyu (周振宇) won the Open Division, Ding Haifeng (丁海峰) won the Over-45 Division, Kan Ying (阚颖) and Cui Jian (崔剑) won the Masters Division, Song Mingxuan (宋明轩) won the 4-dan Division, and Wang Yichun (王艺淳) won the 3-dan Division. Huimin County in Binzhou City is the hometown of Sun Tzu, the Sage of War, a revolutionary base area of the Bohai region, and a provincial-level famous historical and cultural city. The county has always attached great importance to uncovering and protecting Sun Tzu culture, and to passing on and promoting the wisdom of the Chinese nation. Having been held for four consecutive years, the "Sun Tzu's Art of War Cup" has become one of the influential amateur Go brands in China, and it also offers a model that other localities can draw on when staging tournaments built on their own cultural resources. Go veteran Wang Runan (王汝南); Qi Xiangdong (亓向东), Vice President and Secretary-General of the Shandong Provincial Go Association; Wang Benqun (王本群), former Director of the Provincial Department of Justice; Peng Jianmin (彭建民), Party Group Secretary and Director of the Binzhou Sports Bureau; Feng Lili (冯丽丽), Party Group member and fourth-level researcher; Liu Zengsan (刘增三), Director of the Office of the Municipal Sports Federation; Zhao Hongxing (赵红星), Chairman of the Municipal Go Association; Zhou Fan (周帆), Party Group member of the Huimin County People's Government and Deputy County Magistrate; Liu Hongguo (刘洪国), Deputy Head of the County Party Committee's Publicity Department and Party Group Secretary and Director of the County Culture and Tourism Bureau; the Director of the County Investment Promotion Center and Xing Li (邢丽), Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of the Huimin Economic Development Zone; Sun Jianfeng (孙建峰), Deputy Party Secretary and General Manager of Shandong Huimin Urban and Rural Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd.; Zhai Dian'ai (翟佃爱), Executive Deputy Secretary of the County Party Committee's Education Working Committee and Party Group Secretary and Director of the County Education and Sports Bureau; and Wang Jiguo (王吉国), Deputy Party Group Secretary of the County Education and Sports Bureau and Director of the Sports Service Center, along with other distinguished guests, attended the opening and closing ceremonies of the tournament. Click to view the results table: Rankings of the 4th "Sunzi Art of War Cup" National Amateur Go Open.zip
