The China Chess League (CCL) () is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs. The league is organized by the Chinese Chess Association. It is sponsored by Youngor Group and was sponsored by the Shandong Torch Real Estate Group (2005–2009) and it has been able to determine the league's sponsorship name. Seasons usually run from April to November each year. The league is contested by 10 clubs. Under the rules of the league each team is allowed to register seven Chinese players and an unlimited quota of foreign players. The rules require five boards with at least two female players and a 25 min+30 sec increment rapid game must also be played on one of the boards.
For the 2008 season, the league has attracted 26 GMs, three IMs, and eleven WGMs. This season, ten teams are competing over 18 rounds in six different cities in a six-month period, from March to August.Stars from the Chinese League ChessBase.com (26.05.2008)
For the 2009 season, the league was won by Shanghai, with the top male and female scorers being Wang Hao and Ju Wenjun respectively.
Clubs and players Ten teams are represented:
Beijing Aigo Team 北京爱国者国际象棋队 Ye Jiangchuan Li Chao Yu Yangyi Zhao Xue Wang Yu Arman Pashikian (Armenia)
China Mobile Group Chongqing Company Ltd 重庆移动通信国际象棋队 Liang Chong Wang Chen Huang Qian Tan Zhongyi Alexander Motylev (Russia) Zhang Zhong (Singapore)
Hebei 国台酒河北国际象棋队 Wang Hao Zhang Pengxiang Peng Xiaomin Wang Rui Guo Jin Wang Doudou Zhai Mo
Jiangsu 蓝珀通信江苏队 Zhou Weiqi Xu Jun Lin Chen Wu Wenjin Ruan Lufei Wei Yi Shen Yang Guo Qi Dyland Xue (United States)
Shandong 山东玲珑轮胎队 Bu Xiangzhi Zhao Jun Wen Yang Wu Kaiyu Hou Yifan Zhang Jilin Sun Xinyue Vladimir Akopian (Armenia)
Bank of Qingdao 青岛银行队
Tong Yuanming Liu Qingnan Chen Peng Sun Fanghui Zhou Min Wesley So (Philippines)
Vera Nebolsina (Russia) Pentala Harikrishna (India) Elena Tairova (Russia) Mikhail Kobalia (Russia) Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia)
Qingdao Yucai 青岛育才中学国际象棋队
Xiu Deshun Ma Qun Wan Yunguo Zhang Ziyang Gu Xiaobing
Gong Qianyun Liang Zhihua Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia) Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vietnam) Peng Zhaoqin (Netherlands)
Shanghai 上海建桥学院国际象棋队 Ni Hua Zhou Jianchao Lou Yiping Lu Yijie Ju Wenjun Zhang Xiaowen Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)
Tianjin 天津南开大学国际象棋队 Wang Yue Li Haoyu Xu Hanbing Xu Yong Ning Chunhong Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia) Batkhuyag Munguntuul (Mongolia)
Zhejiang 浙江队
Ding Liren Yu Lie Lu Shanglei Jia Haoxiang Xu Yuhua Ding Yixin
Wang Xiaohui Alexey Dreev (Russia) Zhu Chen (Qatar) Nikita Vitiugov (Russia) Vladimir Malakhov (Russia) Vladimir Belov (Russia)
See also Chinese Chess Association Chess in China
Other leagues United States Chess League Chess Bundesliga - Germany 4NCL - the British-based Four Nations Chess League
References
External links Official site of the China Chess League (Chinese) Chinese Chess League history 2005-2013 from OlimpBase