Tunisia's first Chinese song competition concludes

STORY: Tunisia's first Chinese song competition concludes SHOOTING TIME: June 19, 2024 DATELINE: June 20, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:58 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Ben Arous Youth Sports Center 2. various of the singing competition and Tai Chi performance 3. various of awarding ceremony STORYLINE: Seventeen Chinese language and music lovers from Tunisia on Wednesday participated in the final of the country's first Chinese song competition. The participants performed Chinese pop songs and Peking opera during the two-hour event hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Tunisia and organized by the Confucius Institute at Carthage University in the capital city of Tunis. Ilhem Motamri, a Chinese language teacher and an amateur singer, clinched the championship in the adult group with her performance of "Chess Piece." Motamri said she started teaching Chinese in 2004 and has been practicing singing Chinese songs since then. She believed that a Tunisian female singer proficient in Ch

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - A patient of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center makes a move as he plays against grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky, Lviv, western Ukraine.

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - A patient of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center makes a move as he plays against grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky, Lviv, western Ukraine.

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - Grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky moves a knight as he plays chess with the patients of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, Lviv, western Ukraine.

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - Ukrainian chess grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin (R) advises a patient of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center playing with grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky, Lviv, western Ukraine.

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - Ukrainian chess grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin (L) advises a patient of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center playing with grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky, Lviv, western Ukraine.

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with UNBROKEN patients in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - Chess pieces are seen on the board as grandmaster Alexander Beliavsky plays chess with the patients of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, Lviv, western Ukraine.

BRITAIN-LONDON-CHESSFEST

BRITAIN-LONDON-CHESSFEST

(230717) -- LONDON, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An actor dressed in a chess piece performs in a living chess display during the ChessFest at the Trafalgar Square in London, Britain, July 16, 2023. ChessFest, an annual open-air chess festival in Britain, took place in London on Sunday. (Xinhua)

Polish Styczynska to be 1st foreign female "shogi" player

Polish Styczynska to be 1st foreign female "shogi" player

Karolina Styczynska of Poland poses with a large "king" piece from "shogi," a chess-like Japanese board game, in Tokyo on June 28, 2015, after she was entitled to become a professional shogi player. Styczynska, a 24-year-old student at Yamanashi Gakuin University who took up shogi after coming across it in a popular Japanese manga, will become the first foreign female shogi player. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Installation resembling chess knight at JR Minami-Urawa Station

Installation resembling chess knight at JR Minami-Urawa Station

People check out a piece of art resembling a white chess knight at East Japan Railway Co.'s Minami-Urawa Station in Saitama Prefecture on June 3, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shogi prodigy Fujii in match to extend record winning streak to 30

Shogi prodigy Fujii in match to extend record winning streak to 30

Sota Fujii (L), at 14 the youngest professional player of shogi Japanese chess, moves a piece during a match to extend his all-time record winning streak to 30 at Tokyo Shogi Hall on July 2, 2017 against Yuki Sasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

Visitors touch pieces made of pure gold for shogi, or Japanese chess, in front of a giant piece covered in leaf gold at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 26, 2017, the opening day of a Gold Fair displaying and selling gold products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

A woman shows pieces made of pure gold for shogi, or Japanese chess, in front of a giant piece covered in leaf gold at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 26, 2017, the opening day of a Gold Fair displaying and selling gold products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

A woman holds pieces made of pure gold for shogi, or Japanese chess, next to a giant piece covered in leaf gold at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 26, 2017, the opening day of a Gold Fair displaying and selling gold products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo