Special correspondent GuCa reported that at 17:00 on the afternoon of January 17, the 14th press conference of the 2021 "Huawei Mobile Phone Cup" Weijia League was also the last press conference of the season at the Zhejiang Changxing Kaiyuan Mingdu Hotel, with Hua Xueming, vice chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association and leader of the national Go team, as the host, and The ninth dan of the chess saint Nie Weiping and the representatives of the four winning teams Wang Tao liudan (coach of The Hangzhou team of Su Boer), Guo Wenchao five dan (coach of the Hangzhou team of Longyuan Mingcheng), and the ninth dan of The Nine Dans of The Quzhou Rotten Ke team). Tang Weixing Jiudan (a member of the Tianjin team of Jiajia Food) attended. Some news media reporters, team leaders and coaches in Changxing attended the press conference.
Moderator: Hello everyone, the 14th press conference of the 2021 Huawei Mobile Phone Cup China Go League was held today, and it is also the 32nd since the epidemic. After two epidemic postponements, the playoffs have finally met with everyone. Today there were two teams that advanced to the finals and two teams that were relegated, and probably everyone like me, feels only two words: excitement. There seems to be no other word to describe than stimulus.
Coming to the press conference today are two coaches and two players, and the coaches watching chess and playing chess under the chess, bringing us a new perspective. The two biggest highlights of this playoff, I think are brought by the Longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team, one is the miraculous reversal of Ding Hao's 355 hands today, and there is Jin Yucheng, who won 5 wins and 5 losses in the regular season and 5 wins and 1 loss in the playoffs, which is also a miracle. Two miracles added together, it must be a miracle within a miracle. Now give the microphone to the reporters off the field.
Reporter 1: I would like to ask Coach Guo Wenchao, Longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team has been three seasons two finals, when you interviewed you before the start of each season, you said that Longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team is based on relegation, but three seasons of two finals, this difference in results is still quite large. Can you explain why the gap between self-positioning and final grades is so large?
Guo Wenchao: Thank you for your question. In fact, even now I feel that our team is not a strong team in the traditional sense, from the perspective of the first eight, if you choose six teams that are likely to win the championship, you may not be able to choose our team. But on the one hand, our team brought surprises to young chess players, on the other hand, the luck is really very good, for example, today's chess can be won, it is really lucky. Including the last round of our win in Jiangxi is also very difficult, from a single game alone is already a small probability event, it is really not easy to connect so many small probability events together, luck is too good. Jin Yucheng is indeed the biggest surprise of our team this year, and I did not expect that although I have always been very optimistic about him, I did not expect to play so well, far beyond my expectations. Thank you.
Moderator: The reporter's question is very professional, and Ding Hao in 2019 is the most valuable chess player in the year. I think Guo Wenchao said it very low-key, but he said that when any small probability finally becomes a high probability, it needs a process of accumulation and effort. Sometimes this process is invisible and subtle, so it is the most important thing for chess players to work hard.
Reporter 2: I also want to ask Coach Guo Wenchao, you mentioned a little "luck component" earlier, and also praised the performance of your team members, but I believe that longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team can fight strong enemies to advance to the finals, there must be a coach's credit, I would like to ask you to talk about how to consider in terms of platooning. In addition, your team and Suber Hangzhou team have played the finals again after two years, and I want to hear your outlook on the finals, what are the odds of winning?
Guo Wenchao: Thank you for your question. In terms of the deployment of these two rounds, I think the deployment of the Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank team is also very good, and the first idea of our team is to use foreign aid Li Dongxun to top the park Tinghuan on the opposite side, so that Park Tinghuan and Jin Yucheng can play fast chess, so I think our overall winning rate will be a little higher. Of course, Dang Yifei's winning percentage against Li Dongxun is also very high, so we have no lead in the first round of the deployment, the only point is Jin Yucheng. Although I want Kim Woo-cheng to fight Park Tinghuan, but it is not like what is said on the Internet about the Field Ji horse race, I believe that Kim Woo-cheng is likely to defeat Park Tinghuan in fast chess. And Kim Woo-cheng, as our training object, can let him and Park Tinghuan such a top master next set, which will also help him a lot in the future. Of course, it was lucky to encounter it first, because at that time, we analyzed that Park Tinghuan might go down two or four and eventually put it on the second station, but in fact, the five-five-open thing was bumped by us. In the second round of the deployment, there are not many places where our two teams can change, the only difference is whether we can put Jin Yucheng on the fast chess, there is a certain difference for our team. In the end, it was also very lucky, their team's fast chess was basically one or three, and finally the probability of being hit by us was hit by us. So from the perspective of these two games, overall I am satisfied, but from the strength of the whole team, our team is really still a little behind. In the end, no matter what the layout, no matter how you think, the chess player is still the most critical, or the chess player bites to win.
Regarding the outlook for the final, the last time the two teams in Hangzhou met, the level of our team was obviously not as good as this year, Ding Hao did not fully grow up, and there was a lack of a fast chess player like Jin Yucheng. This year our team is in good shape in all aspects, the luck is good, there are chances, and there may be a winner or loser in the final. So "Lao Bi" (Wang Tao's nickname) you also have to be careful (laughs).
Host: Guo Wenchao means that the credit is all for the team members, in 2019 we are not ready, now we are ready, you look at it. Next, I think you don't need to ask questions, so I will ask Wang Tao to give us a response.
Wang Tao: Our two teams had a visit once in 2019, and I still have some impressions of those two games. Last year, Suber Hangzhou was second in the regular season, and lost in the playoffs, going to the third and fourth place competitions. This year we passed the first hurdle first, a step further than last year. The players can go to the finals is still a good opportunity to exercise, an opportunity to exercise their state of mind and mentality, I hope they can do their best to play the level out and enjoy the game.
Reporter 1: I also want to ask Coach Wang Tao, will the psychological pressure on the brothers of the same door division in the final be a little greater for the Suber Hangzhou team than for other teams?
Wang Tao: I think the psychological pressure will be less, and I may look at the victory and defeat lightly, as long as I play my own level.
Host: I think Wang Tao's answer is a bit of a big brother feeling, all in all, I have reached the final, I have a good mentality, right? I don't think I need to say more about the following words, you should all understand.
Reporter 3: I would like to ask Feng Jiaxi, today's relegation battle was not very optimistic, including Wu Guangya vs. Ye Changxin's set, but in the end it was lucky to be relegated. Please talk about today's chess game and review and comment on the performance of individuals and the whole team this season.
Jiaxi: Thank you for your question. Today's game of chess is relatively smooth, but until now I have not eased up a bit, because I have been watching my teammates' chess after playing, and when I play it myself, it is not so obvious, looking at other people's chess, especially when the winning rate of a move of forty or fifty or even higher fluctuations, once did not dare to look. Although the other three sets were won in the end, two sets were big reversals, and one set was always swinging left and right. When the teammates won two sets, they relaxed a little.
It's been three years since the playoffs were changed to the current model, and the first year I was in Beijing was a bit similar to this year, the regular season is a little bit away from the top eight, and the playoffs are down in the relegation zone all the way down to regret relegation. Last year in the championship zone, although it did not enter the top six, it was more relaxed. I think the level of the teams is very close now, the regular season is to fight forward, no matter how to compare, really down to the last set everyone is a good win. If you are ranked in the front, there is not so much psychological pressure, and you will play a little better. I have a winning percentage of less than 50% this year, and probably the main player will be 50%, and when I am not the main player, it is almost the same. I'm not happy with this win rate, and I should have worked harder. It is true that the opponents are very strong, and doing better themselves can improve the winning rate. I have many times to quzhou to play experience, Quzhou can be said to be one of the best service guarantee in the weijia team, I hope that in 2022, the Quzhou rotten ke team can refuel, from the regular season to start working hard, the results exceed this year. Thank you.
Host: Today there were two games of chess at the end, one was Ding Hao vs Park Tinghuan 355 hands, and the other game had nothing to do with the team's victory or defeat, but it also played six hours of tang Weixing and Zheng Xu's battle, I involuntarily recorded the last moments of the game, I think it is a scene that can be recalled in the future, a very interesting scene. Next, please ask Tang Weixing, the protagonist of this scene, to talk to us.
Tang Weixing: This playoff game is a little different from what I imagined. I think it may be that the first set of the playoffs lost to Jiang Qirun, and there are two small places in the back that the official did not see, the left loss of one eye and the right loss of one eye, and finally lost half a eye. I feel like I wouldn't have been so rough before, but now it's so rough. Originally, after two games of chess, you could go home happily, but in the end it turned out to be so dangerous. But there is no way, just like Elder Feng just said, or have to be serious. I think that although the young chess players are so strong now, the older chess players are slowly a little unable to resist, but if you want to work hard, you can still slow down this speed, and sometimes you may be able to make a little achievement. I don't think I've been working so Go lately and have been a bit lazy. I hope that the new year can still cheer up a little, and all aspects, including Go and exercise, must be careful.
Our team's main player, Scherhoe, is still quite good, and I seem to have similar results with him in the regular season, he has won four consecutive games in the playoffs, and the thigh of relegation is him. My chess is more difficult than the next, and I feel that if I can win the first set, it may be smoother later. That game of chess is a little worse, and I always feel a little dizzy in the back. Of course, it is excellent to be relegated in the end, this is my last battle a few years ago, the 2021 game has all ended, it is still a good mood to go back to the New Year, here also wish everyone a happy new year.
Moderator: Thank you Tang Weixing. In fact, whether it is Tang Weixing or Yu Jiaxi, they can now be classified as "old chess players" in the chess world, and they all speak their hearts with the responsibility and responsibility of old chess players. Tang Weixing just mentioned Shel Hao, today Ser Hao is against Chen Yaoye, Chen Yaoye this year served as the main player in the league is very small, but at the most critical time, the momentum between the two of them today, let me feel the sense of mission of professional chess players. Now That Yu Jiaxi and Tang Weixing have issued a call as "old chess players", hoping that the chess players of their generation can make their careers longer, just like Yuta Iyama on the previous Nongshim Cup, I think age is one aspect, and whether they want or not is a more important aspect.
Reporter 4: Ask Tang Weixing another question, you are in a "master-apprentice war" in both rounds of the relegation war, do you have a different mood? Are you satisfied with your students? During the review, the students seemed to be very unconvinced.
Tang Weixing: Zheng Xu was my student very early, in 2006, when the Zhenjiang Duan Tournament was held, I was still an amateur chess player, his family was in Zhenjiang, at that time I was still a bit famous in the amateur, his father found my father, wanted to invite me to sit at his house, after that exchange, his family decided to send Zheng Xu to my house to study, he was not yet ten years old, until he played a profession, has been living in my house, it can be said that I have been watching him grow up. He's the strongest of my students, but I want my students to be a little stronger, but there's no way. He still communicates with me, including mental issues when I'm in the lower armor. I think he played well in these two sets with me, but it's also possible that I played a little stinky. Are I satisfied, you ask? Actually, I want to say satisfied, I want him to take a championship, but it's still a little far from this. If you want to cultivate a champion, you may have to stop playing chess and concentrate on cultivating it later. I am still quite satisfied with these two games.
Moderator: Finally, please ask Elder Nie to give us a summary.
Nie Weiping: Hello everyone, I haven't seen you in the game for a long time. Today's 2021 Weijia decided two final teams, one is the Longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team that has survived the stormy waves, and the other is the strong Suber Hangzhou team. Suber Hangzhou won 3-1 in both rounds, which gave me the feeling of being at ease. When I first got here, several reporters asked me to predict, and then someone said that my prediction was like Bailey's, predicting who would capsize the ship. But I said from the heart, I said at the time that I was optimistic about the Suber Hangzhou team and the Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank team to reach the final, before the game I felt quite objective. But looking at it again today, maybe I am a little old and underestimated the explosive power of the Longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team, which shocked me. Including what they just said About Kim Woo-cheng, I don't know who it is, the playoffs can win 5 wins and 1 loss, which is remarkable. Which team has such a baby here, the results will rise a lot. Today I watch chess, ding hao in the middle stage is already a mess, I don't know how it was reversed later. It should be said that the God of Go is still powerful, although I look at Park Tinghuan and he is very young, but it is estimated that Ding Hao feels that he is already older. So I have to remind you that the Suber Hangzhou team must not think of itself as a big brother, luck is on the side of the real strong, if the final loses to them, the strong will have to change. In short, the game is very exciting, how many wonderful I have not seen clearly, but the tension, intensity, excitement are fully displayed, to my surprise.
The curtain of the 2021 Weijia is about to fall, and I hope that the two teams in the final can play fierce and wonderful chess, leave a good impression on us in the new year, and leave good memories for the entire Go community. Today I would also like to congratulate the two teams that have been relegated, and although the relegated teams are very painful, the relegation team is still very happy. It's almost the Spring Festival, and I wish you all a happy new year.
Moderator: Thank you Elder Nie, who has been cheering us up. Following the wonderful topic of Nie Lao's chess game, this year we have set up a new award "Best Chess Game Award", which will be awarded at the opening ceremony of the 2022 season, and strive to be compiled into a book after a few years as a classic memory of the armor. In 2020, Nie Lao said "youth storm" at the press conference of Weijia, and the Longyuan Mingcheng Hangzhou team in the 2021 season may also be in line with the youth storm of the Jiangxi team in 2020.
Today is the last press conference of the 2021 Huawei Mobile Cup China Go League, which is not easy for everyone to play before the Lunar New Year. We came to Changxing last Monday to report for the start of the race, in fact, we got the license to run the game before the end of work last Friday , more than 4 p.m., leaving us with only three days to prepare, two of which were weekends. The first thing to thank for the success of the competition is the Changxing County People's Government, which has the courage to take responsibility during such a period. The Changxing County Bureau of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Tourism has done a lot of practical work and given up rest. Of course, thanks to the total title Huawei, to give a small detail, in a very short period of time, Huawei shipped the computer and display screen that supported network games, giving the chess players a better playing environment. Thank you to the media reporters to accompany us, thank you for the cooperation of chess players, thank you for the live broadcast of the sports channel and central video of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, thank you for the technology of Tencent Wild Fox Go video live broadcast, save manpower, reduce gathering, thank you to all the chess fans who pay attention to the Huawei Mobile Phone Cup China Go League. This concludes today's press conference, thank you.