 This has facilitated the growth of many young players.Many big names had been trained at those chess classes when they were young, such as female grandmasters Liu Shilan and Wu Minqian; female master An Yanfeng; male master Qi Jingxuan, Li Zunian, Liang Jinrong, Yang Xian, Lin Ta, Ma Hongding (马红丁, born in 1963) and Wang Li.Before the ban on chess was imposed in 1966, the Chinese national team played four international matches with the Soviet Union, represented by master players.