– from Jake Liang and Yang-Jian Zhou

There were 8 long hard days with ten excruciating rounds. We won 5 rounds and played hard teams – for instance Australia, who ended up on rank 10, and against BJHD Chess Training School, which ended up on rank 12. We also played the Czech Republic, who ended up on rank 14, and Kyrgyzstan, who ended up on rank 24.

Our final rank is 36/72. We worked very hard and we had great fighting spirit, especially Zheming, who always tried to win for the team.

Our Coach was very helpful. He worked day and night for us and gave us much inspirational influence. He has improved our play forever and has inspired us to learn more. Throughout these games we have benefited a lot, both in terms of experience and motivation. We have built close relationships with each other in the team and have become closer in our friendship.

We would like to thank the parents for their great help and for making us more organised as well as giving us the best support.