On January 3, under the watchful eye of 30,000 chess fans on the Wild Fox Go website, China's 18-year-old Wang Xinghao defeated South Korean chess player Shin Jin-jin Jiudan in the black mid-game to win the Tencent TWT Championship and 600,000 yuan in prize money with a score of 2:1. As soon as the game ended, chess fans discussed it enthusiastically, not only because no Chinese chess player could defeat Shen Zhenchen in the game or fan chess for a long time, but also because the Chinese chess world that had no successor after 01 finally appeared a future life that could be expected.
Wang Xinghao won this competition with full weight. In the quarterfinals, He jumped all the way to stun Ke Jie, and in the semi-finals, Li Ke smiled, and in the final, facing Shin Zhenchen, who did not lose a set in last year's international off-field battle, the first set gave the opponent a dismount. If there is no light enemy in the first set, it is more or less unreasonable, because this is an online game after all, and the opponent is still an unknown young player. In the second set, Shin Shin-chan obviously put in more, as can be seen from the time and chess, and he also successfully equalized. So after the two sides have tested each other, the third game can be said to be a real knife and a real gun, and both sides must do their best, after all, it is about the ownership of the 600,000 prize money.
Shin Was a little cautious and overdoed. In the past year, Shen Zhenchen has used time offensive many times, and when his opponent enters the second reading, he generally has dozens of minutes to go. But in this game, he actually used it almost the same time as Wang Xinghao, and many local Shen Zhenchen had a feeling of not being able to let go. So after paying too much attention to the question of life and death in the lower left corner and the bottom, Shen Zhenchen gradually took the dragon. At this moment, he suddenly woke up and began to attack the left black chess piece, which was also his last chance. In the face of the enemy's victorious hand, Wang Xinghao did not flinch, but instead took off a hand, and overwhelmed the opponent first in momentum. This became a life-and-death struggle, and Wang Xinghao once again showed extraordinary courage, discarding the left and upper sides at the same time and killing the white chess pieces below. Although the risk is not small, the duel between young people is a contest of courage, and Wang Xinghao finally won the victory.
Chinese Go blossomed everywhere after 95. 96 Fan Tingyu, Mi Yuting, 97 Ke Jie, 98 Yang Dingxin, Gu Zihao, Xie Erhao, Li Qincheng... These people won the world championship in their teens and quickly suppressed South Korea. But after Ding Hao, Li Weiqing, Liao Yuanhe, Xie Ke and others in 2000, Chinese Go unexpectedly had a fault, and there were almost no chess players who made breakthroughs early. The only two people who are more prominent after 01 are Tu Xiaoyu in 2003 and Wang Xinghao in 2004.
However, compared with the predecessors who won the world championship at the age of seventeen or eighteen, Tu Hewang's results can be described as "unbearable". Tu Xiaoyu's best result was the round of 16, and Wang Xinghao didn't even have the best result, because he had never participated! Wang Xinghao's previous best results were only the two runners-up of domestic newcomer Wang and the 2021 Globis New Talent Championship champion, and the World Series has not yet been matched.
Because the current participation system of the World Series in China is free of selection + pre-selection, the exemption can only have the opportunity to perform extremely well in the event or the top three in the grade, and the pre-selection is generally the player with the highest grade score to participate, so Wang Xinghao has hardly even participated in the preliminary selection before, let alone entered the competition. Last year, the Samsung Cup chess academy finally realized that young chess players also need opportunities, so they made an exception to let Wang Xinghao and Tu Xiaoyu participate in the preliminary selection, but in the inner volume of a number of domestic masters, Wang Xinghao only won one game of chess and had no chance to qualify. And domestic large-scale events such as several title battles, almost all of them are in the top 32 of the grade points to participate, and Wang Xinghao, who ranked 37th in China in November, naturally did not have the opportunity to participate.
But the domestic competition is not qualified enough, and the international competition does not even have a chance to qualify, so it gives young chess players the opportunity to exercise? It is no wonder that there is no successor after 01. At the age of 16, Fan Tingyu won the Ying Cup championship and almost broke Lee Chang-ho's youngest world championship record, which was based on the qualification of head coach Yu Bin to see that he had broken the rules in his excellent performance. Judging from Wang Xinghao's performance this time, what young people need is opportunity and stage. Wang Xinghao's entire 2021 match count is 43 sets, while South Korea's Moon Min Zhong is 111 sets, and the gap is too big.
Wen Min Zhong four paragraphs
2021 is a dismal year for Chinese Go, the previous old book has eaten almost the same, I hope that the chess academy can give young players more performance opportunities in the new year, and the entire Chinese Go industry can borrow Wang Xinghao's shareholder wind to revive.