China's new Go "male god" Fang Tianfeng wrote another record today in the first Ennew Cup Round of Sixteen, but this record is a bit bitter - 53 hands of The White quickly lost to South Korea's post-00s youngster Shin Jin-chan, which is the shortest number of hands in the World Series.
How many hands do I need to play in a game of Go? This is irregular, but generally speaking, after 150 hands, more than 200 hands are normal, more than 300 hands are also very common, not long after the end of the Ying's Cup final three innings, Tang Weixing and Park Tinghuan have dropped to more than 300 hands, the 10th Three Star Cup final decider in 2006, Luo Xianhe and Lee Chang-ho are even more than 360 hands (in fact, the final place that needs to be supplemented is more than this number of hands). Less than 150 hands is a short match, if less than 100 hands, it is very rare, it must be a major mistake on one side, resulting in an early collapse of the situation.
Fang Tianfeng held the white negative Shen Zhenchen
Teacher Fang Tianfeng in today's game of chess, the first local battle produced a miscalculation, was eaten a "big head ghost", suffered heavy losses, had no intention of fighting and hastily threw a shot, a total of only 53 hands. Prior to this, the shortest number of lots in the well-documented World Series matches was also 53 lots, but it happened in the qualifiers. In the 9th Samsung Cup Qualifiers on July 30, 2004, Chinese Taipei chess player Lin Shuyang held a black match against South Korean chess player Kim Joon-young, kim Joon-yong misread The Signs, and also conceded defeat with 53 hands. However, the influence of the qualifiers obviously cannot be compared with this tournament, not to mention that Teacher Fang has reached the top sixteen, it is the attention of everyone, and today's chess game is more dramatic.
Since the inception of the Professional Go World Series in 1988, to the launch of the New Olympic Cup, including the discontinued and ongoing, there have been 11 World Series, of which, after entering the stage of this tournament, there are also some games below 100 hands, we may wish to take an inventory.
Anzuo Yongsheng Iida Kiki
Before Fang Tianfeng lost to Shin Jin-hyun, the record for the least number of players in the World Series belonged to Ahn Jo Yong and Ida Kiki, and in the first round of the 4th Samsung Cup in 1999, South Korea's "Half-Eyed Prince" Ahn Jo Yong encountered the Japanese tiger Ida Kiki, and as a result, Eda made a mistake in the battle above, and was thrown in the hands of Ahn Jo Yong, and 73 hands surrendered.
The Samsung Cup is a high incidence zone for "100-match", especially in recent years. In the first round of the 12th Samsung Cup on September 4, 2007, the Korean Civil War, Hong Ji Ji won the 99-hand victory over Baek Hong-mi.
On September 12, 2009, in the third round of the 14th Samsung Cup Round of 32 group stage, Chinese general Qiu Jun knocked down Japan's famous Satoshi Yuki with 94 hands.
On September 4, 2012, in the first round of the 17th Samsung Cup Round of 32 group stage, Chinese female Jerry Naiwei won over Hideki Komatsu in 87 hands, but unfortunately in the third round of qualifying, Sister Rui was half-eyed by Komatsu and failed to reach the round of 16.
The day after Rui Naiwei's quick victory over Komatsu, in the second round of the 17th Samsung Cup Round of 32 group stage, China's Peng Liyao defeated South Korea's new rookie Luo Xuan in 90 hands.
On September 7, 2015, in the first round of the 20th Samsung Cup Round of 32 group stage, South Korea's old king Seo Bong-so defeated Japanese chess player Tatsuya Shida in the 99 hand.
On October 8, 2015, in the quarterfinals of the 20th Samsung Cup, Li Shishi, who had unabated tiger power, defeated young Chinese chess player Zhang Tao in 96 hands.
Yu Bin beat Cai Jing
Just on September 8 this year, in the third round of the 21st Samsung Cup Round of 32 group stage, China's veteran world champion Yu Bin defeated the young and powerful Cai Jing in the black 95 hand to reach the top 16, showing the style of a Chinese veteran.
On April 14, 1997, in the second round of the 10th Fujitsu Cup, Masaki Takemiya defeated Chinese Taipei master Zhou Junxun in 99 hands, and finally ushered in a new victory in this competition after winning the 1st and 2nd Fujitsu Cup two consecutive championships, and encountering 3 to 6 consecutive first games and 7 to 9 times without the opportunity to participate.
At the Toyo Securities Cup, one of the world's three major competitions, on October 18, 1994, the second round of the 6th tournament, South Korea's Yoo Chang-hyuk won the 98 hand game against Chinese Taipei chess player Chen Yong'an.
On August 28, 2006, in the second round of the 3rd Toyota Cup, South Korea's King Park Yong-hoon defeated Yang Shihae, who had advanced from the world group to the tournament, in the 88 hand set.
Chinese mainland hosted the first world championship Chunlan Cup, there was a "quick win" in the civil war of Chinese chess players, on December 9, 2008, the 7th Chunlan Cup quarterfinals, Zhou Heyang won the 93 hand of the black hand to defeat Sheikh and reach the final four.
On January 16, 2010, the 2nd BC Card Cup Round of 64, South Korea's early Han Zhixi defeated a generation of Tianjiao Lee Chang-ho in the hand-set, causing a sensation. But on January 28, in the round of 32, Han Zhixi lost to An Zuoyong with only 87 hands, which really came and went quickly.
In the LG Cup, on November 21, 2011, in the quarterfinals of the 16th edition, Sheikh Zhibai defeated South Korean general Heo Young-ho in the 94 hand set. On May 30 this year, in the 21st LG Cup Round of 32, Dang Yifei defeated Chinese Taipei chess player Lin Juntan in 88 hands.
Although these less than 100-hand matches make chess fans still unfinished, they also show another charm of Go.
On the one hand, the situation is not the same as a major mistake on the side of the game, on the other hand, it is often because it is not the most critical moment of the game, and if you lose, you will lose! But there have also been short matches in the World Series finals that have just over 100 hands, and that blow is even more difficult to accept, right? On March 29, 2002, in the fourth game of the 6th LG Cup final, Yoo Chang-hyuk made Cho Hyun Hyun a vassal with only 105 hands, pulled the score to 2-2, and then won the fifth set of the final battle, crowned the LG Cup, and became the "World Series Champion" at that time.
If Cho Hyun-hyun conceded defeat early, there was still room for a decisive battle behind him, two years later, on April 1, 2004, the final of the 8th LG Cup, which was also the fourth set, The 1-2 trail of Mu Jin-suk had no way to do anything under Lee Chang-ho's strong attack, and 107 hands were eclipsed, which can only be said to have lost morale.
Of course, there are still many abstentions in the World Series, the most famous of which is that Qian Yuping abstained from losing to Zhao Zhixun in the final of the 4th Fujitsu Cup, although the chess score is a blank "0 hand", but that belongs to another category.
In the domestic competitions of the three countries, China has a 40-hand victory over Zhang Wendong, and Japan's shortest record is Kudo Norio's 20-hand victory over Nobuyuki Ohno, both of which are major mistakes made by the loser side in the set. And South Korea has only two hands down to kim seung-joon conceded defeat, it is said that Kang Hoon is unwell, but in order to face the game fee does not want to directly abstain, so ...
These short games of all kinds have become a different scenery in the annals of Go history.
(Yan Fei)