Special correspondent Guca reported that on January 2, 2022, the final three pieces of the 7th TWT Tencent Go Championship began to be played on the Tencent Wild Fox Go Network, and South Korea's "first man" Shin Jin-chan Nine Dan black 238 hands defeated China's under-18-year-old Wang Xinghao Liudan with a difference of 1/4. The two sides will play the second set tomorrow, and if there is a 1-1 draw, the final set will be held on January 4 to determine the winner of this tournament.
This year's TWT Tencent Go Championship is divided into three stages: audition, rematch and offline finals, and the top 32 of the Wild Fox popularity list enter the rematch. The rematch is a five-round stepped elimination round, after five rounds of elimination, Lian Xiaojiu, Wang Xinghao 6, Shen Zhenchen 9, and Bian Xiangyi 9 dan advanced to the offline finals. In the semi-finals played yesterday, Yujima Feng (Wang Xinghao 6 dan) beat the silent sword (even laughing nine dan) and nparadigm (Shin Zhen Chen jiu dan) to mirall (Bian Xiang Yi jiu dan).
Shin Jin-hyun is the first person in the Korean chess world, winning five championships in South Korea in 2021 (Top Chess Battle, GS PlusCoup, Celebrity, Dragon Star Battle, KBS Cup), and also won 2-0 in the final of the Chunlan Cup World Go Tournament by Tang Weixing Jiudan to become the double champion. At the beginning of 2022, he will also play against Yang Dingxin Jiudan and Xie Ke jiudan in the LG Cup and Ying Cup finals respectively, launching an attack on the triple and even quadruple champions. In contrast, Wang Xinghao's record is lackluster, only winning the second place in the two consecutive rookie wang battles in 2020 and 2021, and also won the best newcomer award in the 2019 Weijia League.
But if you underestimate Wang Xinghao with this record, it is a big mistake, Wang Xinghao stood out from the sea selection of this competition, and after entering the quarterfinals, he eliminated Ke Jie's nine dan and lian xiao nine dan in succession, which has shown his strength not inferior to that of the top masters; not to mention that he has been practicing wildly on the Tencent Wild Fox network for many years, and his network combat skills are no less than any master.
This game Shen Zhenchen black with two consecutive stars to start, and then routinely point 33, the fierce battle of the chess game began on the left side of the game, after the long examination, Shen Zhenchen chose a four-way break, intended to prevent the first hand, but unexpectedly, this hand chess turned out to be a bad hand, resulting in a sharp drop in the winning rate. However, after that, Wang Xinghao was also obsessed with a son, and the black chess piece came out to the mid-abdomen as desired, and the winning rate of the two sides returned to the starting point.
The situation was just calm for a moment, and then it was broken by Shen Zhenchen's fierce move to enter the white array in the lower right three ways, the two were tough here, competing for bayonets, and as a result, Wang Xinghao reaped all his benefits, not only eating and living the black three sons on the right, but also living easily in the right lower control, on the contrary, the black chess piece only formed an external situation on the periphery, but also lost the potential to encircle the big space because of the "hard head" facing the white chess. After this battle, Wang Xinghao's winning rate was close to 90%.
Realizing that the situation was backward, Shen Zhenchen tightened his grip on the white block in the lower left to test the white chess's ability to cure loneliness, and Wang Xinghao made some concessions under the advantage, allowing Shen Zhenchen to encircle the lower right side as he wished, and the winning rate of the two sides was close again. However, with Wang Xinghao boldly scoring into the black squad in the upper panel, there was a great possibility of victory or defeat in this duel.
Wang Xinghao made a dojo in a snail shell in the black sky, happily living a piece, breaking the balance between the two sides on the ground. After that, the two also did their best to play their lives, and each hand of chess was to seek the ultimate effect, and a slight omission could be subverted. Wang Xinghao did not panic in front of the strongest opponent, and maintained the slight advantage until the end, winning by 1/4 of the sons.
Shen Zhenchen was suddenly hit by China's post-00s, which was the first time in two years that a foreign war had taken place. Tomorrow he is bound to play the spirit of twelve points to carry out the second round of the decisive battle, and whether Wang Xinghao, who is holding the match point, can do the usual heart is also a big test for him.