Tomorrow at 9 a.m., the final of the 26th LG Cup will be played online, with Chinese player Yang Dingxin and South Korea's first man Shin Jin-chan in a battle for the first world title of the new year, with the second and third sets playing at the same time on the morning of the 9th and 10th (if necessary).
Yang Dingxin holds a world champion and is a representative of the crown group. In the 2019 LG Cup final, he won the championship when he defeated his predecessors. Yang Dingxin's most recent official game was the Weijia playoffs in mid-January, in which he and Yu Jiaxi won two consecutive sets and won one each. Throughout 2021, Yang Dingxin's performance in various competitions can only be said to be average, the final of the Rotten Ke Cup was defeated by Xu Jiayang, the Nongshim Cup was eliminated by Shen Zhenchen, and the final of the Tianyuan War was then reversed by Gu Zihao. After winning the Southwest King Championship in April, Yang Dingxin lost to Ding Hao, Ke Jie, Park Tinghuan, Shin Jin-chen and Shin Min-chan in the "test of color" armor, exposing the weakness of difficult to fight a hard battle.
In the second half of the year, Yang Dingxin also stumbled a bit, and after successfully revenge on Gu Zihao in the semi-finals of the Qiqi Cup, he lost to Ding Hao in the final, and then lost consecutively in Weifu Fangkai, the national hand battle, and the big chess player battle, and Dingye was basically grainless in the domestic arena. Fortunately, he found a field in the international arena, the most important Samsung, LG Cup, Yang Dingxin's state is extremely stable, the Samsung Cup reached the semi-final chess pieces poorly lost to Shen Zhenchen, LG Cup is successfully entered the final, again facing Xiao Shen. This is also the third time that Yang Dingxin has reached the final of the World Series, and in the face of Shen Zhenchen, who has not been in good shape recently, he is looking forward to leaving the crown group after Mi Yuting.
Shin Jin-chan was like a hanging before November last year, with four domestic crowns, and the international arena only lost to Park Tinghuan in the three-star final, which was really terrifying. However, with the defeat of the Samsung Cup final, Shin Jin-chan's state fluctuated significantly, first losing the National Hand Mountain Cup championship (losing to Bian Xiangyi), and then losing chess consecutively in China, the TWT Championship final 1:2 defeated Wang Xinghao, the Ox-knee Phoenix Claw Cup semi-final was eliminated by Li Dongxun, Shin Zhenchen has been folded in four consecutive events, the final three consecutive losses.
In the past year, many people at home and abroad seem to have reached a consensus that Shen Zhenchen is already the first person to rule the chess world, but such a performance is really difficult to call the rule, Xiao Shen currently has only two championships and four Asian achievements, and Ke Jie, big and small Li and other former overlords have a winning rate of more than 80% in the first ten finals, and Shen Zhenchen's success is actually a lot worse. It is true that he is the strongest chess player, but it is still too early to call himself the "ruler", he is already 22 years old, and whether he can surpass Ke Jie in his career must be a question mark, not to mention the big and small Li.
This final is undoubtedly the most outstanding duel in today's chess world, and I believe that the two chess players can bring a high-level final to chess fans and feast their eyes during the Spring Festival.