Due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, various offline professional tournaments of Chinese Go have been postponed, and the update of professional chess players' ranking scores has been suspended in the version released in early February. The Previously Non-Stop Go Tournament, which had been non-stop all year round, suddenly stopped, and we also had time to take stock of the current situation of china's top Go players.
Chinese Go ranks in the top 30
Chinese Go is rated 31-60
The top 60 players in the latest ranking can be said to represent the top and backbone of the current Chinese Go. There are 16 teams in the Weijia League, each team has 4 people, minus the number of foreign aid, and there are exactly 60 or so Chinese chess players participating. Taking stock of the ages of the top sixty players, the data are as follows:
Post-70s: 1 person
Post-80s: 10 people
90-94: 24 people
95-99: 18 people
After 00: 7 people
95-99 is dominating the Chinese chess world
The first person in Chinese Go ranking, Ke Jie
Ke Jie has occupied the first place in China's Go ranking for more than four years (during which he was surpassed by Mi Yuting once, but Ke Jie regained the top spot the next month), and the 95-99 generation of chess players led by him are dominating the Chinese chess world, and the top five in the ranking are all in this age group.
The 90-94 generation of Chinese Go has produced many world champion players, including Chen Yaoye in 89, whose group is still relatively large, and the number of people is slightly superior to that of the post-95 generation, but it has been slightly inadequate in the confrontation at the top level.
The post-00s generation is worth looking forward to
Ding Hao, who has just qualified for the LG Cup
There are seven post-00s chess players in the top 60, Li Weiqing, Ding Hao, and Xie Ke are already approaching the top ten positions, Xie Ke and Liao Yuanhe have also reached the top four of the World Series, in addition to many new talents who are not in the list for the time being, but have a strong upward momentum (such as Wang Xinghao in Shanghai in 2004, currently ranked 66).
In the era of artificial intelligence, the way chess players train is further changed, which should shorten the time for chess players to grow and give them more opportunities to impact their predecessors. Who will China's first post-00s world champion be? We'll see.
Miss the veteran
Zhou Heyang nine paragraphs
Zhou Heyang is the only post-70s chess player in the top 60s, and he also participated in several official matches in 2019, so he was not classified as an inactive player. Not only Zhou Heyang, but even seeing the names of Gu Li and Liu Xing, we will all have a variety of pictures replayed in our minds.
The world of victory and defeat in Go competition is too cruel, and familiar names will always fade away from the list of grades... But we actually want to reunite with them again. Not long ago, the Korean Chess Players Association said that it would establish a game for 30-year-old and 40-year-old korean chess players, can we also learn from other ways of playing in the future to make the professional chess players have a longer competitive life?
(Wen Xuan)