The 26th LG Cup final ended on the 9th, and South Korean chess player Shin Jin-chan won the championship 2:0 against Chinese chess player Yang Dingxin Jiudan and held an award ceremony today.
Shin Jin-chan lifted the championship trophy and received a prize of 300 million won (about 1.6 million yuan), and the South Korean media said that "Shin Jin-chan won the championship in a five-game winning streak, especially the dramatic reversal of defeat with the Chinese side Yang Dingxin Jiudan," showing unyielding fighting spirit and bringing great joy to Korean chess fans."
Previously, due to the winter Olympics Korean athletes were convicted of fouls, "Hanbok" controversy and other events, plus the Asian Games South Korean women's football team was reversed by the Chinese women's football team, South Korea's domestic public opinion is a lot. South Korean media said after Shin Jin-chan won the championship on the 9th that "the mood of the Korean public is deteriorating, but the LG Cup final has brought great comfort to the angry South Korean people." Many Korean chess fans praised Shin Zhenchen after the game, and even some people turned over the old account of Yang Dingxin's questioning of the high cost of the Korean foreign aid game two years ago, so that Yang Dingxin "thought for himself".
Shen Zhenchen said at the award ceremony that he hoped to win the Ying Cup next, and he also had to prepare for the Nongshim Cup first. Although South Korean Go seems to have reversed its disadvantage to China since 2021, Shin Jin-chan said that "China and South Korea are still at a disadvantage against South Korea, China is thicker, South Korea still relies on the play of Shin Min and Bian Sang-yi, and it cannot be considered that South Korea has the upper hand at present." ”
The China Chess Academy also held an award ceremony for the runners-up in Beijing, yang Dingxin received a prize of 100 million won (about 530,000 yuan), lin jianchao, chairman of the China Weiqi Association, and Hua Xueming, vice chairman and team leader, attended. Hua Xueming said at the scene that "in the past year's showdown with South Korea, the national team will release a series of training plans in the near future." One reason for this is that Chinese players are unfamiliar with the LG Cup's 40-second seconds format, so they will introduce a 40-second reading format at the Southwest King Tournament in March. "At present, there is no 40-second reading system in domestic chess battles.
The Nongshim Cup will begin its final phase of the showdown on the 21st. At present, the Japanese team is in a favorable position with yuta Iyama's four consecutive wins, and they are still left with Jingshan, Yu Zhengqi and the main general Yili Liao; the Korean team is only Shin Jin-chan alone, and China is still left with Ke Jie and Mi Yuting. In the first set on the 21st, Mi Yuting will challenge Jingshan, and Shen Zhenchen wants to turn the tide and must win 4 people in a row, which is extremely difficult.