Special correspondent Guca reported that on January 3, 2022, the second game of the final of the 7th TWT Tencent Go Championship was played on the Tencent Wild Fox Go Network, and South Korea's "first man" Shin Jin-chan Jiu Duan Zhibai 216 hand to win the chinese Wang Xinghao, who is under 18 years old, in six dan. The two sides will play the final game tomorrow to determine the winner of this year's TWT.
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, Wang Xinghao's six dan and Shen Zhenchen's nine dan eliminated Lian Xiao jiu dan and Bian Xiang yi jiu dan respectively, and met for the first time in the final.
In 2021, Shin Jin-hyun, the first person in Korean Go, won five championships in South Korea (Supreme Chess Battle, GS Plus Cup, Celebrity, Dragon Star Battle, KBS Cup), and also won the Chonran Cup World Go Tournament 2-0 in the final of the World Go Tournament, becoming the double champion. In contrast, Wang Xinghao is slightly immature, only winning the second place in the two rookies Wang Zhan in 2020 and 2021, and also won the Best Newcomer Award in the 2019 Weijia League.
In the first set of the final held yesterday, Wang Xinghao won 1/4 of bai and came out first. This is also the first person he has won in a game in a row to win The Chinese and Korean Go after reversing the victory over Ke Jie Jiudan in the quarterfinals.
Before the second game today, Shin Jin-chan also beat Lee Young-99 in the Korean Go League last night, which is equivalent to three consecutive high-intensity matches in 24 hours, which cannot but be said to be very hard. Neither of the prologues directly pointed three threes, Shen Zhenchen continuously took the lead in the upper left and lower right, grabbed the big field, 50 hands have passed, and the winning rate of both sides is still at the origin, which shows the depth of their research on AI.
After making full preparations in various parts of the periphery, Shen Zhenchen cut off the peripheral contact of the upper left black block and then launched an offensive. However, it may be the reason for the loss of the first game, Shen Zhenchen did not dare to venture forward, for fear of making a mistake, so when the black chess boldly took the first to the lower left and the right to play, he also followed the trend and did not continue to put pressure on the upper left black chess, which made the fighter fleet fleeting.
Wang Xinghao turned a circle on the periphery first, and then calmly returned to the upper left to make up the chess, Shi Shiran equalized the winning rate, and Shen Zhenchen regretted it. Turning around most of the game, the chess game entered a stable stage of the big official tightening, the biggest place on this plate is the right side of the six roads of the break, the black chess only needs to occupy here, not only the field income is very rich, but also to create a white chess shape gap, killing two birds with one stone. If this is done, Wang Xinghao will have an advantage.
Unfortunately, Wang Xinghao in the reading seconds had no time to calculate carefully, or to judge the poor pool, he chose to set up all the way on the left side of the disk. Even so, Shen Zhenchen still left the right disc hand broken, Wang Xinghao stubbornly refused to shoot, but chose the more intense, but also most likely can not turn back to the left disc white air leaning.
Usually this is a local magic hand, presumably Wang Xinghao aimed for a long time, but unfortunately, although this magic hand can penetrate the white sky, but the white chess can skillfully turn around, give up the small is big, with the help of deterring the black block of the upper left of the hard work, the whale swallows the outer black two sons, and then connects with the thick momentum of the right disk, surrounds the big space and locks the victory. Looking back, how unfortunate it was that the black chess piece missed the right plate six ways to break the white one son; Shen Zhenchen did not tangle with Wang Xinghao in the local area, and listened to what the overall situation was for the black chess to pluck flowers in the white sky, an extremely difficult catastrophe was dissolved by him raising his hand, and easily won through the suppression of the overall situation, which can also see the gap in the comprehensive strength of the two, Wang Xinghao to become a top master, there is still a long way to go.
Tomorrow, the final game of the TWT Tencent Go Championship will be contested, and the prize money for the champion and runner-up of this tournament will be 600,000 yuan and 150,000 yuan respectively.