A few days ago, the Chinese Weiqi Association held the "2022 Chinese New Year Celebration Winter Olympics Go Friendship Activity". More than 40 provincial and ministerial leading cadres, generals, bureau chiefs, ambassadors abroad, university presidents, famous entrepreneurs and other Go enthusiasts from all walks of life who love Go gathered together. Before the start of the exchange competition, the main leaders of the association announced that in 2022, the Chinese Weiqi Association plans to hold 100-120 professional and mass events, including the newly established Quzhou Rotten Cup World Go Open, the Rizhao Northeast Asia Cup World Go New Competition, and the chengdu Tianfu Cup World Go Championship.
The long-awaited second Tianfu Cup World Go Championship has finally been confirmed to be held this year, and as for the specific start time, it has not yet been finalized.
The first Tianfu Cup was unveiled in 2018, and in the final in December, Chen Yaoye's nine dans scored 2:1 to win shen Zhenchen, who reached the final of the World Series for the first time, teaching a lesson to a slightly naïve opponent, and also crowning himself a rare triple crown in the world chess world. Today's 32-year-old Chen Yaoye has almost focused on Go training, and the young and powerful Shen Zhenchen has a lot of wings, has become a double champion of the World Series, and is on the road to constantly surpassing his predecessors.
Shin Jin-hyun and Park Young-hwan
Personally, the author believes that sniping at Park Ting-hwan and Shin Jin-chan in the middle of the road is a panacea to ensure that the national player will eventually win the world championship. Why? First, Korean chess players have always had a particularly high success rate in the finals of the World Series. For example, Cho Hyun Hyun reached the final round 11 times and reached the top nine times. The second is the last four World Series, South Korea won the championship three times, two of which were Sino-Korean wars, and south Korea's second Shen won the closing, that is, Shen Minlik China's first person Ke Jie won the 25th LG Cup, and Shin Jinchen defeated Tang Weixing to win the 13th Chunlan Cup.
Obviously, the current Sino-Korean confrontation in the Go world, in view of the ups and downs of the leaders of the two sides, the Chinese side is already in a backward and beaten situation, whether Chinese chess players can achieve the wrench this year depends on the battle between Yang Dingxin and Shen Zhenchen in the final of the 26th LG Cup, the decisive battle between Xie Ke and Shen Zhenchen in the final of the ninth Ying's Cup, and the other four competitions that have clearly started this year: the second Tianfu Cup, the first Rotten Ke Cup, the 27th Three Star Cup and the 27th LG Cup.
Looking back at the evolution of the World Series, in recent years, most of the World Championships hosted by the Chinese side have been won by Chinese chess players, the most classic is the Lark Cup, and the champions of the four tournaments so far are Zhou Ruiyang, Ke Jie, Chen Yaoye and Ke Jie. One reason for this is that the Chinese-hosted competitions have a congenital advantage in the seed quota and can use the tactic of the sea of people to achieve results.
If the lark cup can be copied, then the second Tianfu Cup will naturally become the ardent hope of many chess fans: I hope that this tournament can become an opportunity for Chinese Go to suppress Koreans again. The question now is, where is the fierce medicine for sniping Park Tinghuan and Shin Jin-chan halfway? Where are snipers looking?
Young General Jin Yu Cheng
Previous World Series, those who had blocked Park Shen's forward steps, especially those who had blocked our number one enemy, Shen Zhenchen, and who were also in the years of fighting, included Ke Jie, Gu Zihao, Ding Hao, Fan Tingyu, Dang Yifei, Liao Yuanhe, etc., and the heroes who were close to the past were Tang Weixing, Chen Yaoye, Zhou Ruiyang, and so on. And Generals such as Qi Yuting, Xie Erhao, Lian Xiao, Yang Dingxin, Li Qincheng, Li Weiqing, Xie Ke, Zhao Chenyu, and Xu Jiayang did not have such a high-profile record.
Many of those who have beaten Park Shin in the League and Online Competitions are wang xinghao and Kim Woo-joong, who were born in 2004. The former unexpectedly lifted Shin Jin-chan to the podium in the final of the online competition earlier this month, while the latter beheaded Park Tinghuan in the playoffs of the Weijia League, and it seems that as long as the opportunity is given, the youngsters can still rely on it.
Snipers, secretly kung fu enough, slashing and killing will come out, perhaps able to achieve unexpected results. While we hope that the more such snipers are better, we hope that the Go Association will create more opportunities for the up-and-comers to have a stage for performance, and we also expect the national players to focus on Go, make full use of AI as a research tool, and win glory for the country in the world competition.