Today, 43 years ago, on March 17, 1982 (February 22, 1982), China officially issued the first stage certificate to chess athletes. On March 17, 1982, China officially issued the first stage certificate to chess athletes. The state body issued the certificate to the first group of 10 athletes who obtained the high stage of chess. The athletes who received the nine stage certificate were Nizhny Novgorod, Chen Zhou, Wu Yuan; the eight stage certificate was Wang Yuan, Hua Yuan; the seven stage certificate was Huang Yuan, Sheng Dong Sun, Roo Jiang; the six stage certificate and the five stage certificate were the two female athletes of Sichuan, Confucius and Hui Yuan.