Competitors for the board game winners concentrate during the finals of the 2020 National Amateur Board Games Championship in Quzhou. [Photo/zj.zjol.com.cn]

The offline finals of the 2020 National Amateur Board Games Championship competition in Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, were officially launched Dec 13.

More than 700 amateur chess, Go and Chinese Xiangqi (Chinese chess) masters from all over the country gathered in Quzhou, to seek the ultimate glory of "chess kings/queens".

The competition is the first large-scale board games amateur competition in China to launch simultaneously on the three channels of computers, TV and mobile phones in an "O2O" (online-to-offline) mode.

This year's tournament consists of two parts: the online preparatory competition and the offline finals. The online tournament started May 25 and ended in mid-September with eight parallel tournaments in total.

Within the three tournament months, the number of contestants for the online preparatory competition exceeded 380,000, with an increase of 56 percent over that of last year. The total number of matchups exceeded 2.57 million, an increase of 109 percent from last year, both setting record highs.

The competition will last until Dec 17.