Say goodbye to 2021 and hello 2022. Looking back on 2021 on the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, this year, the Go world rose up together, hundreds of boats competed, Mi Yuting and Xie Ke won the Dream Lily Cup; Ke Jie and Tang Weixing lost the LG and Chunlan Cup; Park Tinghuan defeated Shin Jinchen to win the Samsung Cup. There are commendable highlight moments, but also farewells and endings...
The editors of Yike Go have sorted out the major events that occurred in the chess world in 2021 for everyone, and after the selection of chess fans, the top ten series of the year have been sorted out: news, battles, chess players and chess reviews, etc.
The five players in this issue are the five most popular catchers after South Korea's two strong players Shin Jin-hyun and Park Young-hwan, who won the world championship for the first time but were not ranked high. Among them, the eldest, Yuan Shengqin, was born in 1985, and the youngest, Li Dongxun, was born in 1998, making him a fierce rival that Chinese chess players often encounter in international competitions. How are they doing in 2021? It's up to you to score.
Welcome to comment on the performance of the above chess player last year in the comments section and leave his New Year's wishes!
1. Yuan Shengqin
Birth date: July 15, 1985
Upgrading status: entered the stage in 1998 and upgraded to nine stages in 2007
Yike World Ranking: 27th; Korea Rank Score: 8th
Match stats: 52 matches, 33 wins and 19 losses; win rate: 63.46%
Results: Won Seung-qin achieved 15 consecutive wins in 2020.11.26 ~ 2021.1.17, the third highest in the total of 40 chess players in the last Korean Siege Division, and achieved a super god performance of 17 total victories, like a second spring, consecutively won LG, Nongshim, Samsung Cup wild cards, but then the record was slightly "high and low".
2. Lee Chang-seok
Birth date: April 27, 1996
Promotion status: 2015 into the stage, 2021 consecutive wins from two to eight stages
Yike World Ranking: 31st; South Korea Rank Score: 7th
Match stats: 88 games, 60 wins and 28 losses, win rate: 68.18%
Results: At the beginning of the year, he won the 4th U25 Crown Haitai Cup.
3. Kim Ji-seok
Birth date: June 13, 1989
Upgrading status: entered the stage in 2003 and upgraded to nine stages in 2013
Yike World Ranking: 16th; South Korea Rank Score: 5th
Match stats: 75 innings, 46 wins and 29 losses, win rate: 61.33%
Result: Keeping a clean sheet, Lee Tae-hyun won the 22nd Mai Xin Cup Nine-Dan Championship.
4. Lee Dong-hoon
Birth date: February 4, 1998
Upgrading status: entered the stage in 2011, and upgraded to nine stages in 2017
Yike World Ranking: 10th; South Korea Rank Score: 4th
Match stats: 55 innings, 37 wins and 18 losses; win rate: 67.27%
Results: 9 wins and 6 losses in the regular season of the 2021 Weijia, 5 wins and 2 losses in the playoffs, and on January 20, he played against Xie Ke to help Long Yuanmingcheng Hangzhou team win the championship.
5. Bian Xiangyi
Birth date: January 14, 1997
Upgrading status: entered the stage in 2012, and upgraded to nine stages in 2018
Yike World Ranking: 7th; South Korea Rank Score: 3rd
Match stats: 81 innings, 60 wins and 21 losses, win rate: 74.07%
Result: Ranked fourth in South Korea in the annual prize list. GS Caltex Cup and Celebrity Battle runner-up, but defeated Shin Jin-hyun in the National Hand Mountain Cup to win the championship, becoming the second person to win Shin Jin-hyun in the international arena after Park Young-hwan.