In the 2021 Korea's newly established professional competition Bull's Knee Claw Cup, the first session went through four long stages of one pre-selection, two pre-selections, final pre-selection, and two sets of circular circles, and finally decided on January 23, 2022, two finalists, who overwhelmed Shin Jin-hyun and Kim Ji-seok, who won the first place in the two sets of circular circles, lee Dong-hoon and Park Young-hwan. At this point, a full eleven months have passed since the opening of the qualifiers.
The yellow-haired Li Dongxun achieved remarkable results in early 2022, and the image of "strange master" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The tournament was founded by a company called Infobell, an advertising service. President Shen Fan xie is an obsessive Go enthusiast who packed the go board in his suitcase every day during his youth job search, and even played chess in the morgue. With the development momentum of Infobell after its introduction in 2007, Shen Fan xie began to consider giving back to Go, until 2020, out of the psychology of "the Go project I like to watch has been losing to China, too sad", successively launched the highest chess player competition and the Bulls knee claw cup two major competitions.
In April 2021, the official magazine of the Korean Chess Academy, Weiqi Monthly, featured Shen Fan-seop as the cover character, and the Korean Chess Academy also invited him to serve as a director.
The titles of both tournaments are health medicines, and the "Sawpal" of the highest chess tournament comes from saw palmetto extract, which is mainly beneficial for men's prostate health. "Cow's Knee" and "Chicken Claw" are the names of the two Chinese herbal medicines, the scientific names are Cow Vine and Huang Lian, "Cow Knee Chicken Claw Soup" as a Traditional Chinese medicine decoction, the effect lies in the waist and knee joints. Judging from the advertising audience of South Korea's Go TV station, infobell's positioning strategy for Go matches is really accurate.
Shin Jin-hyun, who defeated Park Ting-hwan in two consecutive top chess tournaments, lost his good fortune in the Bull's Knee And Chicken Claw Cup, and on January 7, 2022, he won four consecutive victories in the same game, and lost to Lee Dong-hoon in the key battle that determined the top spot of the group, missing the opportunity to fight Park Tinghuan again.
The total budget of the Bull's Knee And Claw Cup is 250 million won (about 1.3 million yuan), the prize money for the champion and runner-up is 50 million won, 20 million won (about 260,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan), and the twelve players who enter the circle of rotation receive the prize according to the final ranking, and the twelfth place is 4 million won (about 20,000 yuan). In addition, a match fee is provided for the final qualifier and the first or second qualifying tiebreaker round. The duration of the race is five 40-second readings after 1.5 hours per side.
A generation of chess god Lee Chang-ho "condescending" from a qualifier, on February 23, 2021, the decisive round defeated Han Xiongkui, to achieve 1800 victories, from the first time to win the first time spent a full thirty-five years, an average of more than 50 wins per year.
A preliminary selection begins on February 22, 2021, and the professional chess players after the 50th ranking of the Korean Chess Academy first select 56 players in two rounds, and then 96 people ranked 11 to 50 in the second preliminary selection are selected through three rounds of elimination to enter the final preliminary selection. The final pre-selection adopts a double-elimination system, and two rounds are broadcast live on TV every weekend afternoon, from 12 people who pass the second pre-selection plus 3 to 10 people in the ranking of 20 people, from April to August. In the final qualifiers on June 26, Park Min-kyu and Han Sang-hoon played a rare three-robbery cycle without winning.
Victory or defeat is a unique product of human Go, and in the eyes of The Art of Excellence, Park Min-kyu, who holds the white, has already won. After the two sides negotiated the extra match, Park Min-kyu won the victory in the end, but the next level against world champion Won Seung-jin still failed to cross.
The 10 players who were selected in the final pre-selection formed a circular circle lineup with Shin Jin-hyun and Park Tinghuan, who ranked in the top two, and female chess player Choi Jing won consecutive victories over Lee Young-woo, Yoon Woo-sang and Ahn Sung-jun (twice) to rank among the top twelve. The round robin draw was divided into two groups, the five rounds of the competition stretched from August 2021 to January 2022, resulting in Group A Lee Dong-hoon 5 wins, Shin Jin-jin 4 wins and 1 loss, Han Seung-joo 3 wins and 2 losses, Shin Min-min 2 wins and 3 losses, Kang Seung-min 1 wins and 4 losses, Kang Dong-yun 5 losses, Group B Park Ting-hwan 5 wins, Won Seung-jin and Kim Ji-seok were both 3 wins and 2 losses, Lee Chang-seok and Bian Sang-yi were both 2 wins and 3 losses, and Choi Jing was 5 losses.
Although not ushering in even one victory, the continuous tempering with the strongest male chess player has greatly forged Cui Jing.
On January 23, 2021, the final round-robin of the 1st Ox-knee Claw Cup Korea Chess Academy Championship was played between old rivals Park Young-hwan and Kim Ji-seok. This game of chess Park Tinghuan is like a victory, and will win the final with an unbeaten five-game victory. However, if it loses, Park Kim won 4 wins and 1 loss, and according to the rules of the game, he won directly at the same time, but Kim Ji-seok overpowered Park Young-hwan.
The "Park Kim Showdown" was the pinnacle of the Korean chess world a decade ago, and the two also competed for the World Gold Cup in the 19th LG Cup in 2015. In recent years, with the rise of Ershen, Park Kim's mobile phone will become less and less.
In a crucial game, the two sides maintained a balance of more than 100 hands, and the elder Park Tinghuan's four-year-old Kim Ji-seok once had the advantage of winning. However, in the second half of the game, it seems comfortable to close Kim Ji Seok Black 119 points into Black 131 to cut off a son, but it ignores the hidden means after the lower left corner of the black is disconnected. Park Ting-hwan-baek 152 figure poor dagger saw, and ended the game in one fell swoop.
As he turned thirty, there were more and more cases of "sudden death" in Kim Ji-seok's chess score.
In the final, Park Ting-hwan will compete with Lee Dong-hoon for the five-game chess championship, and Park Ting-hwan's score against Lee Dong-hoon is 9 wins and 2 losses, and he has not lost in seven years since 2015. However, in 2015, the two first met in the final, and it was Lee Dong-hoon who kept a 2-0 clean sheet against Park Tinghuan, winning the 33rd South Korean KBS Go Championship.
Born on January 11, 1993, Park Ting-hwan is 29 years old and about to ring the 30th mark. Korean chess fans left a message on the Internet: "For the development of Korean Go, it is still necessary to have Park Jiudan alive!" ”