Special correspondent Guca reported that on February 5, the 11th place battle in South Korea's first Bulls knee claw cup was fought between Jiang Dongrun Jiudan and Cui Jingjiudan, and as a result, Jiang Dongrun won the black 181 hand, achieving a "double kill" against Cui Jing in this competition. In the first round of the Korean Go League on February 3, Choi Jing won the LG Cup winner Shin Min Jiu Dan and threatened to transfer the Bull's Knee Claw Cup, but unexpectedly suffered a complete defeat.
"Cow's Knee Claw" is one of the flagship products of Infobell, two traditional Chinese medicine names that are beneficial to health. The company is also the sponsor of South Korea's top chess player decision battle. The total budget of the competition is 250 million won, and the prize money for the champion and runner-up is 50 million and 20 million won respectively. There are prize money ranging from 10 million won to 4 million won from the 3rd to 12th places, and there are match fees in the first and second rounds of qualifiers and final qualifiers, which is different from the open tournaments without match fees in the past qualifiers.
The format of this competition is a bit complicated, the 12 players who advanced in the previous preliminary stage and the players ranked 3rd to 10th in the Korean rankings totaled 20 people, divided into five groups for a double-elimination match, the top two in each group totaled 10 people qualified, and the exempt Shin Jin-hyun Jiudan and Park Tinghuan Jiudan formed two 6-a-side round-robin circles, and the first of the two round-robin circles was a five-player chess showdown to determine the champion. At present, Lee Dong-hoon Jiudan and Park Tinghuan Jiudan have won the A and B championships respectively, and will decide the championship through five pieces of chess. Champion favourite Shin Jin-chan Jiu Dan lost to Lee Dong-hoon in the Group A round robin and missed the final.
South Korean women's Go first person Choi Seung-9 Dan and Kang Dong-yun 9-dan are divided in the same group 5, and in the same group, there are two people in the same group, An Sung-joon Nine-Dan and Yoon Can-hee Eight-Dan, the first game of Jiang Dong-yun wins Against Yin Can-hee, the second game Choi Jing wins South Korea's ninth-ranked An Sung-jun, and in the third round Choi-jin and Jiang Dong-run launch a hedge battle, resulting in Jiang Dong-run winning and qualifying. Cui Jing and An Chengjun then fought a decisive battle for the second qualifying place, and Cui Jing completed the double kill and hitched the last train into the circle of circulation. She also became the only female chess player in the loop circle to compete.
However, in the B group loop circle, Cui Jing was unwinnable in one set, suffering 5 consecutive defeats, and the same situation was that Jiang Dongrun Jiu Duan was also unwinnable in the A group loop circle. According to the rules for determining the ranking of the two sets of loop circles with the same rank, today Cui Jing and Jiang Dongrun decided on the 11th and 12th places.
In the first round robin of the second stage of the Korean Go League on February 3, Choi Kyung-9 Dan beat LG Cup champion Shin Min-kudan, and her TYGEM team defeated Kixx 4-1. Cui Jing took advantage of this yu wei and today ushered in the second duel against Jiang Dongrun in the Bullsk And Claw Cup. In the latest ranking of grade points released by the Korean Chess Academy in February, Kang Dong-yun ranked 14th and Choi Jing ranked 29th.
The fierce battle of this game started from the upper right corner, the black Jiang Dongrun disconnected the white chess contact and thus entered the game, in the fight, Jiang Dongrun in the right side of the three -way "through the point", Cui Jing also with the foolish bend out of the fierce move, but the shape is not correct, the chess is not smooth, this anxious first hand for the subsequent black chess move to lay the groundwork.
After the two sides made a slight response on the periphery, Jiang Dongrun finally moved on the right side of the plate, but he was halfway to the middle, self-defeating, and the winning rate reversed. However, when Jiang Dongrun made a strong move in the lower left corner, Cui Jing also had doubts, the three sons were split outside, the black chess piece became a trend in the middle abdomen, and the white chess piece was suddenly in a dilemma, and if it broke deep into the air, there was a risk of being annihilated; on the contrary, the black chess was too large in the air, and the white chess could not win at all. In actual combat, Cui Jing made a common sense in the middle abdomen, but the remnants were all killed and had no choice but to concede defeat.
Jiang Dongrun and Cui Jing's ranking in the first Bulls knee claw cup competition has been determined, ranking 11th and 12th respectively; on February 6, the 9th place battle was held, and bian Xiangyi, the 5th place in the group A round circle, played against the 5th place in the B group cycle circle Jiang Shengyi 7 dan.