On February 11, the 26th LG Cup Chosun Ilbo World Chess Championship held an award ceremony, and Shin Jin-hyun lifted the championship trophy, which was his second LG Cup title and his third individual world champion. Disadvantaged China will unveil a new training plan.
At the award ceremony held in the auditorium on the 1st floor of the Chosun Ilbo newspaper in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, "Shin Gong Smart" Shin Jin-chan lifted the Championship Cup and won the championship with five consecutive wins from the round of 16. In particular, in the final three chess games with China Yang Dingxin Jiudan, the dramatic anti-defeat showed unyielding fighting spirit and brought great joy to Korean chess fans.
Shin won the Chunlan Cup in September last year and now wins the LG Cup again, plus five domestic titles, becoming seven. Shin Jin-chan, who won the championship trophy and 300 million won prize, said that his first world champion was the LG Cup, and this time he won the championship again, which is of far-reaching significance, thank you, through this championship, I feel more grown and can better grasp the opportunity. This year is also a very important year for me personally. I'm going to be a harder player.
Previously, Shin Jin-chan said that China and South Korea are still in an unfavorable position against South Korea, China's thickness is thicker, and South Korea also depends on the play of Shin Min-kuo and Bian Xiangyi. So at the moment, South Korea cannot be considered to have the upper hand. The next goal is to win the YingShi Cup, of course, first prepare for the Nongshim Cup. As for the Asian Games, because it is a team fast chess tournament, there are certain accidental factors.
Present at the award ceremony were Hung Joon-ho, publisher of Chosun Ilbo, Jung Chung-wook, LG special manager, Ju Yong-tae, head of the Cultural Affairs Department of Chosun Ilbo, and Leung Jae-ho, director of the Korea Chess Academy.
At the same time, the Beijing China Chess Academy held an award ceremony for the runner-up Yang Dingxin Jiudan. The runner-up prize is 100 million won. Lin Jianchao, chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association, Hua Xueming, vice chairman and national team leader, Yu Bin, head coach, and wang lei and Huang Yizhong, coaches attended.
Hua Xueming said that in the past 1 year, the showdown with South Korea has been at a disadvantage, and the national team will release a series of training plans in the near future. One of them is that because Chinese players are relatively unfamiliar with the LG Cup's 40-second seconds reading format, it was decided to introduce 40 seconds in the Southwest King's Battle held in March (there is currently no 40-second second reading in Chinese chess battles).