In the past, the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament was a powerful one, which not only achieved the great development of Chinese Go, but also indirectly promoted the progress of World Go. After entering the 21st century, as Korean chess players have mastered the scepter of the world chess world for a long time, Chinese chess players have caught up with each other, and gradually become a court of resistance, and a new ring battle has also embarked on the stage of history, which is the Gangwon World Cup China-South Korea Go Ring.
The format of this tournament is exactly the same as that year's NEC Cup China-Japan Ring Tournament, in which six players from each of China and South Korea compete in the ring. The tournament was founded in 2006, when Chang Hao had already won the Ying's Cup, Gu Li and Chen Yaoye won the LG Cup finals, and the Korean chess community, which has always regarded itself as a big enemy, finally saw Chinese chess players as a big enemy. Both sides were unusually strong, with the South Korean team led by Lee Chang-ho and Cho Hyun-hyun, Lee Sedol, Ahn Joo-yong, Kim Dong-yeol and Hong Ji as generals. The Chinese team is the six masters of Gu Li, Chang Hao, Luo Xiehe, Wang Tan, Chen Yaoye and Park Wenyao. The queue is similar to the Nongshim Cup, with no pre-determined players, but ad hoc designations, which makes the game more difficult to predict.
Compared with the China-Japan Ring, the China-Korea Ring tournament has a tight schedule and is divided into two stages. The first phase was held in South Korea, with five consecutive battles.
On February 6, the game began, the battle of the vanguard was very interesting, the Chinese team sent the representative of the little leopard, Park Wenyao, can be described as decent, and the South Korean team directly let Lee Sedol, who had surpassed Lee Chang-ho to become the leader of South Korea at that time, take the lead, which is Xiao Lee's favorite sword to take the side, and has the intention of clearing the platform. Lee Se-seok was indeed strong, and after a fierce battle, he knocked down Park Wenyao and looked around.
Once Li Shishi was allowed to kill the momentum, it would be difficult to resist his fierce attack! Who's going to stop the crazy stone? Chen Yaoye stepped forward. A good leopard head, he won a big victory over Lee Sedol in the white mid-set, which hit the morale of the South Korean team hard. Then Chen Yaoye re-kehong Zhizhi, the Chinese team 2-1 rebounded the score, the situation is optimistic.
The third South Korean team to appear was Ahn Joo-young, who was known as the "Prince of Half-Eyes" at the time, but Chinese chess fans had no sensory understanding, believing that he would be just a stepping stone in Chen Yaoye's winning streak. Unexpectedly, Ahn Joo-yong was by no means a mediocre hand, and as soon as he made a move, he knocked Chen Yaoye out of the ring to stabilize the Korean team.
Next, An Zuoyong vividly played the divine power of the "Half-Eyed Prince", and the last set of the first stage and the first set of the second stage defeated the two Chinese generals Wang Tan and Luo Xianhe with a half-eye advantage consecutively, 4-2, and the South Korean team was on a smooth road.
Battle of the Roche River anzuoyong
Hua Yigang and Mao Yuheng explained the big picture
Chinese Research Office
The second stage will be held in Hangzhou, China, from March 20, and the big names in the Chinese and Korean chess circles will gather. At the critical moment, China's ring hero Chang Hao drew his sword and appeared as the vice marshal of the Chinese team, first curbing An Zuoyong's winning streak, and then taking Kim Dong-yeol lightly to equalize for the Chinese team.
In the battle of the vice marshals, Chang Hao defeated the Korean Go emperor Cao Xuanxuan and went straight to the front of South Korea's Nongshim Cup Ding Poseidon Needle Lee Chang-ho. Lee Chang-ho also lost his sense of normalcy in front of Chang Hao's aggressive momentum, and was knocked down by Chang Hao, who was white, with a 3-and-a-half-eye advantage, and the South Korean team was completely destroyed. It was another significant victory for Lee Chang-ho after Chang Hao won 2–1 in the semi-finals of the sixth Samsung Cup in November 2001. Moreover, it was a continuous breaking of the iron wall of Cao Li's master and apprentice, which was a great achievement in the world chess world at that time. Four consecutive victories in four days, Chang Hao's momentum is unstoppable!
Chang Haoli captures Cao Xuanxuan
The tenth round of the first Gangwon World Cup China-Korea Ring
Black: Lee Chang-ho 9-dan (South Korea manager)
White: Chang Hao Jiudan (Chinese Vice Marshal)
Black paste 6 1/2 mesh
A total of 276 lots
White 3 eyes and a half win
Date of the match: 24 March 2006
Location: Hangzhou, China
6-4, the Chinese team won the Sino-Korean ring with the victory of Chang Hao and Chen Yaoye. Chang Hao, as the big brother in the Chinese team lineup, performed extremely well at key moments, and the sense of collective honor and responsibility was unmistakable, before and after he also ended the Sino-Japanese ring match and the First Nongshim Cup for the Chinese team, worthy of the title of hero of the ring.
It seems that the proud Koreans at that time were accustomed to adding icing on the cake after victory, but it was difficult to accept the reality of being knocked to the ground at the first.