Special correspondent Guca reported that on December 12, the 2021 7th National Hand Mountain Cup World's Strongest Battle Final was fought online, and in the Korean chess players' civil war, Bian Sang-yi Jiudan won the championship for the first time in the black 173 hand game.
The National Hand Mountain Cup is an international tournament launched in 2014 between Jeollanam-do and the Korean Chess Academy, with several changes in the format, suspended for one year in 2020 due to the epidemic, and the 7th tournament was held on the Internet from December 10 to 12, 2021. The prize money for the champions and runners-up of this year's National Hand Mountain Cup is 50 million yuan and 15 million won (about 270,000 yuan and 80,000 yuan). The competition invited 16 participants: 7 from South Korea, 3 from China and 3 from Japan, 2 from Chinese Taipei, and 1 from Wild Card (Choi Seung-kudan).
The tournament began on December 10, and the first round of Korean chess players suffered a heavy setback, with 8 players playing 2 wins and 6 losses, only Shin Jin-chan and Bian Xiangyi 9-dan survived; China's Fan Tingyu 9-dan, Xu Jiayang's 8-dan and Huang Yunsong's 8-dan were unscathed, in addition to Japan's Yamashita Kyung-go 9-dan, Hsu Ka-won 9-dan and Chinese Taipei's Hsu Hao-ho 7-dan advance. In the quarter-finals, only Xu Jiayang survived in China, and south Korean second generals and Xu Jiayuan reached the top four.
In the semi-finals played the day before, Shen Zhenchen and Bian Xiangyi eliminated Xu Jiayang and Xu Jiayuan respectively to meet the final. In 2021, Bian Xiangyi, who had previously had a big ups and downs, changed his face, and even entered the celebrity war and the GS Plusc Cup final that restarted after five years, although in the end, he was inferior to Shen Zhenchen and completed the opponent's domestic five-time championship honor, but in the two finals, Bian Xiangyi fought to the final round, although he lost Yu Rong. Moreover, in the first round of the Celebrity Battle, he will also beat Shin Jin-chan into the loser group. The two had played a total of 9 sets in 2021, and Shin Zhenchen only led a set 5-4.
In this decisive battle, Bian Xiangyi started with a rare small eye and a diagonal star, and did not take the usual path. After taking the two large horns on the upper right and upper left, he forced the white chess piece to surround the upper side of the plate, taking advantage of the fact that it had not yet closed the dragon, looking for a gap to enter, after a few hands, he actually set up a back garden in the white chess form, Shen Zhenchen was helpless to do anything about it, and could only watch the black chess piece grow away.
Not only that, after the black chess piece came out, it also echoed with the black momentum of the next game, and the other piece of black chess looked like a russian, and now it was Shen Zhenchen's turn to break through the air, the roles of the two sides were quickly replaced, the chess style of Bian Xiangyi's good war was unleashed, and all kinds of foolish moves did not care, and Even if Shen Zhenchen beat it into a ball of cake, it would not help. After forcing Bai Dalong to return to his grievances, the black chess piece still faintly became empty in the middle abdomen, and the lone chess piece became thicker, simply alive and dead Shen Zhenchen.
In the desperate situation where the winning rate is close to zero, Shen Zhenchen made a final attempt, forcibly moved out in the middle abdomen black momentum, ate thick with thinness, how to beat Bian Xiangyi small is "stirred" big, familiar with this set of "stirring meat" methods, three times two times will be the white chess all hunted, ending the game.
While winning the 50 million won championship prize, Bian Sangyi also rewrote his and Shin Jinchen's 2021 record to 5-5, launching a counter-trend counterattack against "Shengong Intelligence", whether it is Park Tinghuan in the Samsung Cup final or Bian Xiangyi in the final of the National Hand Mountain Cup, they all inspire Yang Dingxin Jiudan and Xie Ke Jiudan who are about to compete in the LG Cup final and the Ying Cup final with confidence.