Player profile
A sourced Lu Qin profile: five national individual titles, five world individual titles, the Wuyang Cup record, four league titles led as coach, five replayable games and video references.
Career record at a glance
Player and method
Born on 10 August 1962 in Huidong, Guangdong, Lu Qin is a Chinese Special International Grandmaster who served on the national team and as coach and player for the Guangdong squad. He won the national individual championship five times (1986, 1988, 1999, 2003, 2004) and the world individual championship five times (1990, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005), and public reporting calls him the player with the most Wuyang Cup titles.
Sachess does not write "flying fast horse knife" or "young marshal of Goat City" as legends detached from the games. The five games span 1996 to 2026 and include wins, draws and one loss, each with a complete annotated record.
Images come from public reporting and are used as page context. Dates, specific events and rights status were not independently verified.
Fact layer
The timeline below verifies the dated milestones first, then explains how they connect into a career path.
The Dongping player record lists Lu Qin as born on 10 August 1962 with ancestral roots in Huidong County, Huizhou, Guangdong. The same entry records his English name as Lv Qin.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Public records state that Lu Qin took up professional xiangqi training in 1978 and won the national junior championship in the same year.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Lu Qin placed third at the national championship in 1982 and second in 1983. These were his first top-three finishes in the country's highest individual event.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Public records credit Lu Qin with the 1985 Asian City Masters title, an early international result from his competitive period.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Both Wikipedia's winner list and the Dongping player record list Lu Qin as men's champion of the 1986 National Individual Xiangqi Championship.
Wikipedia: National individual championship winners by year ↗Lu Qin won the national individual title again in 1988. His repeated meetings with Hu Ronghua in this period became a central story in xiangqi reporting.
Wikipedia: National individual championship winners by year ↗Public records state that Lu Qin received the Special International Master title in 1989 and won the Wuyang Cup consecutively from 1989 on; Taishan municipal government reporting calls him the player with the most Wuyang Cup titles.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Lu Qin took the men's individual title at the first World Xiangqi Championship in 1990 and was part of the Chinese squad that won the team title.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Public records state that Lu Qin won the fourth Chess King tournament in 1994 and defended the Chess King title at the Pengchang Cup in 1998.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗Lu Qin won the individual world championship in 1995 and 1997. In 1996 he played Red and beat Sun Yongzheng in round one of the 4th Jiabao Cup Guangdong-Shanghai match.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗At the 34th national individual championship in Zhenjiang, Lu Qin finished first in 1999. The xiangqi archive's placings table lists that edition's top six as Lu Qin, Xu Yinchuan and Tao Hanming among them.
Xiangqi game archive: national individual top-six placings by year ↗Lu Qin won the national individual championship in Wuhan in 2003 and Chongqing in 2004, the stage that produced most of his titles.
Wikipedia: National individual championship winners by year ↗Public records state that Lu Qin led his team to the national Xiangqi League title in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008, while also serving as Guangdong team coach and player.
Dongping player record: Lu Qin (profile 6) ↗China News Service reported that Cao Yanlei qualified second from masters group A and then beat Lu Qin in the final phase, before taking the 31st Wuyang Cup title. The xiangqi archive holds two of Lu Qin's games from the veterans group of the 32nd edition in 2026.
China News Service: 31st Wuyang Cup final report ↗Career in context
The Dongping player record lists Lu Qin as born on 10 August 1962 with ancestral roots in Huidong County, Huizhou, and lists the years of his five national individual titles and five world individual titles. Those two number sets are the hardest facts here, and the timeline is built on them rather than on nicknames.
Dongping player record ↗Wikipedia's winner list records Lu Qin winning in 1986 and 1988. In both years he met Hu Ronghua repeatedly, and their top-level encounters became one of the central stories in xiangqi reporting at the time.
Wikipedia winners list ↗Taishan municipal government reporting directly names Lu Qin as the player with the most Wuyang Cup titles. The Dongping record lists the consecutive run beginning in 1989. The page uses the sourced superlative rather than rewriting the exact edition count.
Taishan municipal government ↗Public records state that Lu Qin won the fourth Chess King tournament in 1994 and defended the title at the Pengchang Cup in 1998. That handover is a key node in the relationship between two Guangdong players.
Dongping player record ↗Public sources behind the Xu Yinchuan profile describe the two as the "Lingnan twin dragons," students of the same coach Cai Furu, teammates on the Guangdong squad and opponents on the national stage. Lu Qin is described as sharply attacking with meticulous openings; Xu as patient with endgame precision.
Xiangqi archive public records ↗The Dongping record lists four national league titles for 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008, plus runner-up finishes in 2003 and 2005. A player profile that also writes the coaching record is necessary to understand his later public identity.
Dongping player record ↗Public records state he received the State Sports Commission honour medal in 1991, was elected to the 8th National People's Congress in 1993 and to the 15th Party Congress in 1997. These are public career nodes, presented with their sources attached.
Dongping player record ↗The five games span 1996, 1997, 2021 and 2026 across different opponents and time controls. They include a win with Red, a loss with Black and two draws. The label has to be checked against these games rather than treated as settled.
Xiangqi game archive player index ↗In round one of the 4th Jiabao Cup Guangdong-Shanghai match, Lu Qin opened with a central cannon against the reverse palace horse and beat Sun Yongzheng after 147 half-moves. It is the oldest sample here and the clearest place to watch him win tempo first and then attack.
Xiangqi game archive ↗In the Minbai Cup elite final, Xu Yinchuan played Red and Lu Qin Black with a central cannon and three pawns. After 128 half-moves the game settled as a draw in a horse-cannon endgame, recording a meeting between teacher and student that produced no result.
Xiangqi archive game record ↗In group B of the 2021 first Shanghai Cup Masters preliminary, Zheng Weitong played Red with an opposing-pawn opening and won after 109 half-moves. Including it keeps the sample from showing only winning games.
Dongping record ↗The xiangqi game archive holds two of Lu Qin's games from the veterans group of the 32nd Wuyang Cup in 2026: a draw with Red against Li Laiqun in round four and a win with Black against Xu Tianhong in round five. China Youth Daily reporting supplies the event dates and venue, Guangzhou Cultural Park.
Xiangqi game archive ↗China News Service reported that Cao Yanlei qualified second from masters group A and then beat Lu Qin in the final phase before taking the title. Lu Qin went out at that edition, showing he still competed at the highest invitation level in recent years.
China News Service ↗
Fact layer
Wikipedia's winner list and the Dongping player record agree on these five titles, the core national record of his career.
In each edition he also formed part of the Chinese team that won the group title, the public record of five world individual crowns.
Taishan municipal government reporting names him the player with the most Wuyang Cup titles; public records state he won consecutively from 1989 on.
Public records list four league titles he led, alongside a long spell as Guangdong team coach and player.
Taishan municipal government reporting records six titles; the Dongping record lists him in the 7th through 11th Asian Cups.
He won the fourth Chess King tournament in 1994 and defended the title at the Pengchang Cup in 1998.
Public records state he received the State Sports Commission honour medal in 1991 and was elected to the 8th National People's Congress in 1993.
Current-status note
The five national individual titles (1986, 1988, 1999, 2003, 2004) are cross-checked between Wikipedia's winner list and the Dongping player record. The five world individual title years come from the Dongping record. The "most Wuyang Cup titles" phrasing follows Taishan municipal government reporting and is not rewritten here as an exact edition count.
Sample note
Taishan government reporting and the Dongping player record both describe his style as sharply attacking. The 1996 Jiabao Cup game in the sample contains a clear sacrificial attack.
Public reporting repeatedly lists a meticulous approach to openings. The five games cover four systems, from a central cannon with a river-crossing cannon to opposing pawns.
Quick reaction is a phrase that recurs in the public record and is the source of his "flying fast horse knife" nickname. Turning points in the slow games are observation cues, not official scores.
The 128-ply 1997 Minbai Cup final ended in a draw. It is the longest and most simplified game in the sample, which makes it useful for reading post-simplification handling.
Public records show a long spell as Guangdong team coach and player with four league titles led. This measures the coaching role, not playing strength.
These values are Sachess reading labels built from the five public game records on this page. They are not official ratings, engine win rates, or a complete career statistic.
Use the 89-ply record of Lu Qin as Red against Li Laiqun to see how a river-crossing cannon buys tempo in slow play.
Use the 72-ply record with Xu Tianhong as Red and Lu Qin as Black to study where Black attacks after the trade.
The 147-ply long game shows how Lu Qin first won tempo and then converted into attack inside the central cannon system.
The 128-ply game between classmates opened with this system and settled into a horse-cannon endgame draw.
Use the 109-ply record with Zheng Weitong as Red to study how an opposing-pawn opening turns the first move into middlegame pressure.
Sample note
Five games are a study sample, not every famous game; style labels are editorial observations, not official scores.
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1996 · Lu Qin won
This 147-ply first-round record of the 1996 4th Jiabao Cup Guangdong-Shanghai match shows Lu Qin playing Red with a central cannon against the reverse palace horse and winning. It is the oldest game in the sample.
Study path: Study question: at which move did the first-move tempo turn into real pressure?
1997 · Opponent won
The Minbai Cup elite final ran 128 half-moves from a central cannon with three pawns. Vehicles came off and the game settled into a horse-cannon endgame draw.
Study path: Study question: where do two players from one school differ in a simplified position?
2021 · Opponent won
This 109-ply group-B record of the 2021 first Shanghai Cup Masters preliminary began with opposing pawns and right horses. Lu Qin played Black and lost.
Study path: Study question: what does putting a loss in the sample actually test about style claims?
2026 · Opponent won
This 89-ply slow record from the 32nd Wuyang Cup veterans group in 2026 opened with a central cannon and a river-crossing cannon against the left Three-Step Tiger and ended in a draw.
Study path: Study question: does the river-crossing cannon buy tempo or space in slow play?
2026 · Lu Qin won
This 72-ply slow record from the same event opened with a central cannon, river-crossing chariot and mutual seven pawns against the Screen Horse with a central cannon for a chariot trade. Lu Qin played Black and won.
Study path: Study question: which attacking line did Black choose after the trade, and why?
Featured videos
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A public documentary index whose subject is exactly the published "flying fast horse knife" epithet. The video title itself is not treated as a factual source.
Watch on original site ↗A public interview index about the relationship between the two players, useful alongside the Lingnan section here.
Watch on original site ↗A public event-video index. The year and edition in its title were not verified item by item; facts follow the sources listed on this page.
Watch on original site ↗A public game-video index involving Cao Yanlei, the player China News Service reported as beating Lu Qin.
Watch on original site ↗A public game-video index that shows what a sacrificial attacking line looks like in practice.
Watch on original site ↗A public game-video index whose opponent matches the 2026 Wuyang Cup sample on this page.
Watch on original site ↗An outside game-video index built around one meeting between Xu Yinchuan and Lu Qin, useful to watch alongside the 1997 Minbai Cup sample here.
Watch on original site ↗An outside event-video index whose title mentions a cannon trap by Lu Qin at the Wuyang Cup. The title is not treated as a factual source.
Watch on original site ↗An outside event-video index; the veterans group list includes Lu Qin, and it belongs to the same edition as the two 2026 games on this page.
Watch on original site ↗An outside event-video index that adds tournament context for the edition where Lu Qin went out.
Watch on original site ↗An outside event-video index offered as a viewing entry point to the Wuyang Cup venue. Game facts still come from event reports and records.
Watch on original site ↗An English video describing Lu Qin as a finisher. It is offered as an outside interpretation, not as an official assessment.
Watch on original site ↗Key moments
Wikipedia's winner list records him winning the national individual championship in 1986.
Public records place him winning the men's individual title at the first World Championship, with a team title alongside.
He won the fourth Chess King tournament and defended the title at the Pengchang Cup in 1998.
Back-to-back national individual titles form the densest stretch of his record.
Public records show four national league titles he led, in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008.
One losing game in the sample, so the page does not show only victories.
Two records from the veterans group of the 32nd Wuyang Cup document his 2026 play.
Study path
Read event, opponent, result and the full move list before judging opening or middlegame traits.
The five games include a 2021 Shanghai Cup loss and two draws. Looking only at wins overstates any player's consistency.
Three of the five games are marked slow play, where the pace of turning points differs completely from rapid play.
Videos add viewing and commentary context; the hard facts still come from event reports and original records.
FAQ
Public career records list five: 1986, 1988, 1999, 2003 and 2004.
The Dongping player record lists five individual world titles, in 1990, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2005.
Both epithets appear in a public biographical note published by the Taishan municipal government, which also lists sharp attack, quick reaction and meticulous openings as elements of his style.
Public sources use slightly different counts. Taishan municipal government reporting calls him the player with the most Wuyang Cup titles, while the Dongping record lists 1989 to 1992 and then 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2009. This page uses the sourced superlative instead of an unverified exact total.
No. They are five study samples chosen by Sachess for event, opponent, year, time control and replayability, and they include one loss and two draws.
Sources and boundaries
Five games are a study sample, not every famous game; style labels are editorial observations, not official scores.
Fact-check date: 2026-09-30. DhtmlXQ move strings are converted to ICCS at build time for replay; event fields follow the source record. The page adds no private details or income figures, and treats no video title as a factual source.
