He left after all, and left this world with his unfinished dreams.
At 20:58 on May 1, 2022, Wu Guilin was extremely severe due to prostate cancer , which metastasized and spread to the brain, liver, spine, bone and other parts. The condition worsened and he passed away unfortunately.
His wife, Gao Yiping, who is also a special master, wrote that my husband Wu Guilin went to another place peacefully. You chose the second day of my birthday and left for me after my birthday. Thank you.
marry Gao Yiping, Wu Guilin never regrets it, marrying Wu Guilin, Gao Yiping never regrets it, this chess love between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait touched many people.
1962-2022, Wu Guilin had a great life, had glory, lost, and left many reluctances. His chess career has not been completed yet. He devoted his life to promoting the national chess culture in Taiwan.
Many of his relatives, friends, chess friends, and students and chess players were extremely regretful of his departure. They lost a chess talent in the world, patriotic chess man, and there was an extra treasure island chess king in heaven.
In 1962, Wu Guilin was born in Nantou County, Taiwan, China. When he was 6 years old, he learned to play chess under his uncle's influence.
html When he was 07 years old, Wu Guilin, who had only been studying chess for a year, won the runner-up in a local community. At the age of 10, he had won the Nantou County championship.
When he was a teenager, Wu Guilin came to Taipei and played chess while studying and winning the championship in Taiwan. He was considered a Taiwanese prodigy.
Afterwards, he won the Taiwan competition championship many times in a row, and won the Holy Grail of Chess and Ten Games, setting the throne of Taiwan's Chess King in one fell swoop.
In his twenties, Wu Guilin officially came out to play games with masters from all over the world, especially in the battle with the top chess kings in the mainland of the motherland. He had outstanding results and reached the peak of the chess world.
1988, in the 5th Asian Cup of Chess, Chinese Taipei teamed for the first time, Wu Guilin was in the front desk, won all ten games, and caused a sensation. Chinese Taipei also successfully won the runner-up.
The following year, the 27-year-old Wu Guilin went to the mainland for the first time to participate in the competition, defeating Lu Qin and others to win the "Longhua Cup" Chess Celebrity Invitational Championship.
In June of the same year, Wu Guilin went to Shanghai and became a disciple of the chess master with his skills. He officially became the master of chess in Hu Ronghua . Since then, Baodao Chess King's chess skills have gone to a higher level and he has become a first-class chess player among his contemporaries.
Wu Guilin entered the top three seven times in the eighth World Chess Championship from 1990 to 2003, and another fourth place.
This means that except for the Chinese chess players, the players in other countries and regions are all inferior to the chess king of Baodao, and Taiwan’s No.1 is definitely NO.1.
Among them, at the second World Championships, Wu Guilin defeated the top four champions Li Laiqun . The magician lost the world championship and Zhao Guorong accepted it with a smile.
At the fourth World Championship, Wu Guilin defeated another Chinese chess player, Tao Hanming, , leading the ranking, one step away from the world chess king. He was just sorry that his backhand fought against Lu Qin and accidentally fell off the game. Lu Shuai also successfully defended the great achievements of the World Championship.
At the 6th World Championships in 1999, Wu Guilin, who was 37 years old, was the first person in the chess world and was at the peak of 24 years old. The two sides fought hard for more than eight hours and more than three hundred steps, setting a record. Fortunately, Xu Te then directly talked to win the teammate Yan Wenqing , and ensured that he won the championship.
2010 Asian Games, Wu Guilin drew with two Chinese players Lu Qin and Hong Zhi in a row. He still finished fourth at the age of 48, with the top three Hong Zhi, Ruan Chengbao and Lu Qin.
After that, Wu Guilin, who was over 50 years old, devoted more energy to popularizing and promoting the national chess culture in Taiwan, and participated in competitions less.
0 Wu Guilin and his wife Gao Yiping have opened Prince Harvard Chess Academy in Kaohsiung since 2005. For more than ten years, they have spared no effort to cultivate chess talents in Taiwan.
Wu Guilin said, "The overall environment of Taiwan chess is not good. I hope that through our efforts, we can slowly change the happiness of chess to more people. Chess is the invention of the ancestors of China and must be passed on."
In Wu Guilin's chess career, he won the national championship twenty times, including two defeats Hu Ronghua, Lu Qin, Xu Tianhong , three defeats Li Laiqun, Liu Dahua , six defeats Tao Hanming, Zhao Guorong, Xu Chao , and his battles with young chess kings such as Hong Zhi, Zhao Xinxin , Wang Yang, Sun Yongzheng , Xie Jing are all chess games. Their strong combat power shows that there is no one outside the mainland.
In this era, we are doing something within our ability every day, not seeking to shine in the world, but seeking to work hard and strive, and be ashamed of our hearts. Wu Guilin's extraordinary life is undoubtedly brilliant, illuminated, and without regrets. He pays tribute to the Chess King of Baodao!
(Chess Prince)
