The 4 players who lifted the championship trophy at the 2021 World Series. From the top left, in clockwise order, they are Shin Jin-chan Nine Duan (Chunlan Cup), Park Ting-hwan Nine Duan (Three Star Cup), Mi Yu Ting Nine Duan (Dream Lily Cup), and Shin Min-min Nine Duan (LG Cup). Among them, there are 3 from South Korea and 1 from China.
2021 World Chess Review Inventory
Shin Jin-hyun rose to prominence and helped South Korea dominate individual and team events
The world chess scene in 2021 is dominated by South Korea. As the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over, most of this year's tournaments are also played online, and Korean chess players have achieved better results in both individual and team competitions than the previous year.
South Korea's performance overwhelms rival China, which is based on active chess tournaments, rich practical experience, and systematic training. The report, titled "The official number of matches in February south Korea is 695, but China is only 5", was also quoted in China and once became a hot topic.
In the 2021 international arena, Korean chess players won a total of 8 championships in the LG Cup, Chunlan Cup, Samsung Cup, National Hand Mountain Cup, Xin'an International Seniors Competition (individual), Nongshim Cup, Nongshim Cup Veterans Tournament (team), Wu Qingyuan Cup (women), while China won a total of 4 championships: Dream Lily Cup (individual), world women's strongest battle (women), Globis Cup U20 World New Sharp Battle (New Sharp), Fuzhou Artificial Intelligence Competition (AI).
In an interview at the Korean Go Awards ceremony on December 29, 2021, Shin Jin-chan Jiudan, who is on the rise, said: "In 2021, Korean Go can play 100 points."
Shin Jin-chan won the 13th Chunlan Cup
Number of World Series titles
There are 4 world championships in the year 2021, of which 3 championships were won by Korean chess players. Shin Min-hyun of the LG Cup in February, Shin Jin-chan of the Chunlan Cup in September, and Park Ting-hwan of the Samsung Cup in November won the championship respectively. In May, China's Mi Yuting Jiudan won the Dream Lily Cup.
Shin Min-ho won the world championship for the first time in his career, while Shin Jin-hyun and Park Young-hwan won the Chunlan Cup and the Samsung Cup for the first time. Since the first Appearance of the World Championship of Go in 1988, South Korea has won 64 world championships, 45 times in China, 11 times in Japan and 1 time in Chinese Taipei in the past 30 years.
In addition, Shen Zhenchen Jiudan reached the final of the Ying's Cup and will play a three-game final with Xie Ke Jiudan; the LG Cup Shen Zhenchen also successfully entered the final, and will start the three-game final with Yang Dingxin Jiudan in February next year.
In addition to the above world competitions, Bian Xiangyi Jiudan won the World Professional Strongest Championship of the National Hand Mountain Cup, Cui Jingjiudan won the Wu Qingyuan Cup World Women's Championship, and Liu Changhe Jiudan won the Xin'an International Elders Championship. Shin Jin-chan also helped South Korea regain the "nickname of the team competition", the Nongshim Cup, with a wave of five consecutive wins.
Shin Jin-chan helped South Korea regain the Nongshim Cup with five consecutive wins
South Korea-China confrontation record
The number of matches between Korean and Chinese players was similar to the previous year. Looking at the World Series alone, the ratio of South Korea and China to China is 25:32 – South Korea's 43.9% win rate against China is slightly higher than the 40% in 2020.
If you add other competitions, including the Nongshim Cup, the National Hand Mountain Cup, the Chinese Weijia League, etc., the record ratio between South Korea and China is 92:74, which mainly depends on the 63-win and 37-loss record of Korean chess players in the Chinese Weijia League.
In 2021, the record of Korean and Japanese players is 12 wins and 5 losses, and the record of Chinese Taipei players is 2 wins and 2 losses.
Korean chess players in a game of go-a-go
Individual world series results
Judging from the individual results of the World Series, Shin Jin-chan Jiudan won 1 championship, 1 runner-up, and 2 final rights (not yet in progress) in 2021, leading the way. Park Young-hwan 9-dan and Shin Min-min 9-dan both won 1 title and 1 quarter-final.
As for Chinese players, Mi Yuting Jiudan won 1 championship and 1 final four; Xie Ke won 1 runner-up and 1 final right (not yet carried out); Yang Dingxin won 1 semi-final and 1 final right (not yet played). Ke Jie jiudan only won 1 runner-up and 2 semi-finals. For Ke Jie Jiudan, who has 8 world championship titles, 2021 is the year that he has not recorded a world championship for the first time since 2014 and after a gap of 7 years.
Ke Jie lost 1:2 to Shen Min in the final of the 25th LG Cup, and she cried after the game
Multiple wins in international competitions
Shin also finished overwhelmingly first in the 2021 International Multiple Wins List (this tournament and above) – he won 21 wins and 3 losses, with a win rate of 87.5%. This result is much ahead of the tie for second place, Park Tinghuan Jiudan and Mi Yuting Jiudan, who are 8 wins and 4 losses. The summary is one sentence: Shen Zhenchen has participated in many competitions throughout the year, won many, and the winning rate is also very high.
Shin Jin-hyun's three-set defeat was a 2-1 defeat to Park Ting-hwan in the Samsung Cup Triptych Final, a 1-0 defeat to Bian Xiangyi jiudan in the final of the World's Most Professional Battle in the National Hand Mountain Cup, and no loss to Chinese, Japanese, or Chinese Taipei players in an international tournament throughout the year.
Even if he only watched the World Series, Shin Jin-chan Kudan was the first in the winning list with a record of 14 wins and 2 losses, and the winning rate was also the highest.
On the contrary, China's first person Ke Jie jiudan's 2021 international event record is 4 wins and 6 losses (the world series record is 4 wins and 5 losses), with a winning rate of less than 50%.
(Saury compiled from Hanyou.com, original author Han Changkui)