Tragically reversed by Cui Jing, the "New Seven Duan" Yu Zhiying lost the Wu Qingyuan Cup again

Yu Zhiying's seven-dan final for two consecutive years failed to win the cup. Infographic

Beijing News (chief reporter Sun Haiguang) On December 4, the 4th Wu Qingyuan Cup World Women's Go Tournament Final Sanfanqi ended online. Yu Zhiying's seven dans, who reached the final for two consecutive years, were tragically reversed by South Korean chess player Choi Jing Jiu dan after winning the first game, and once again missed the Wu Qingyuan Cup.

In the previous three Wu Qingyuan Cups, Cui Jing won a championship and a runner-up. Yu Zhiying reached the final of the Wu Qingyuan Cup for two consecutive years, and lost 1-2 to youngster Zhou Hongyu in the final last year.

Yu Zhiying and Cui Jing can be called the first Chinese and Korean women's Go players, the two have played many times before, Yu Zhiying 23 wins and 19 losses slightly prevailed. However, the two have met in the last 10 times, and Yu Zhiying is at a disadvantage of 2 wins and 8 losses. In the recent World Series matches, Yu Zhiying defeated Cui Jing in the strongest game of the World Women's Go at the Fanxing Cup at the beginning of the year.

In the first game of the three chess games, Yu Zhiying defeated Cui Jing with 231 hands. Yesterday's re-fight, Yu Zhiying lost to Cui Jing, and the big score was dragged to 1-1. Today's three-game duel, Yu Zhiying led the black first.

After the start of the match, the two fell like a fly, and the first 4 minutes had dropped to 50 hands. After that, Yu Zhiying was once in a favorable position, but Cui Jing made a strong hand in the middle abdomen to reverse the situation. Yi reached 244 hands, Yu Zhiying lost the pitch, and missed the Wu Qingyuan Cup championship for two consecutive years. Cui Jing twice won the Wu Qingyuan Cup, but also took away 500,000 yuan of championship prize money.

Despite missing the championship, Yu Zhiying did not win nothing in this year's Wu Qingyuan Cup. After defeating Wang Chenxing in the semifinals, Yu Zhiying was promoted to seven dans with a valid match of 68 promotions, and she also became the seventh Chinese women's Go player to reach or exceed seven dans, after the previous six players were Kong Xiangming, Yang Hui, Rui Naiwei, Zhang Xuan, Feng Yun and Hua Xueming.

Sun Haiguang, chief reporter of the Beijing News

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