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Hara: Japan-Korea-China winning team match Noshin Cup 3rd round just before special (part 1) - 1st and 2nd rounds retrospective "Tsuzume of Tsururin-style go - Spill story"
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Author: Editor K
Translation and finishing: Make excuses to be quiet Immediately Nongshim Cup
Last November, something happened that made Japanese chess fans dance in ecstasy. That is, Iyama Yutakudan won four consecutive victories in the second stage of the 23rd Nongshim Cup World Go Strongest Tournament.
In our weekly magazine series, we spent three weeks introducing the players who played in the third phase, which began on February 21. The first week introduced the most vocal Korean chess player Shin Jin-chan Nine Dan, the second week introduced the Chinese Ke Jie Nine Dan, and the third week introduced the Nine Dan of Ieyama Yuta.
Here we introduce other topics of the Nongshim Cup, let's first introduce the Nongshim Cup well, and then review the first and second stages of the competition.
Nongshim Ramen Cup is a team tournament between China, Japan and South Korea, the strongest match in the world. This is a historic World Series that began in 1999. Each country sends 5 top players to start a duel starting from the vanguard of each country, the winner continues to play, and the loser will be replaced by another player. The team that wins to the end wins the championship. Truly, the "world's strongest battle" is the world's highest level of team warfare.
In the previous 22 Nongshim Cups, Japan only won the championship once in 2006, but the rest were at the bottom of the rankings, and the gap between China and South Korea was widened, and it was quite helpless to cause the topic, and this day basically lasted to this day.
But this time, Yuta Iyama put a pause in the previous decline, and now there are 3 in Japan, 2 in China, and 1 in South Korea, and the Japanese team ranks first.
Let's review the previous two stages, the first stage of the Japanese pioneer Shibano Tiger Maru nine dan appearance, although not lower than South Korea's Yuan Sheng Qin nine dan, but after that Xu Jiayuan nine dan won, China, Japan and South Korea each won 1 win and 1 loss. Heo Ka-won then confronts South Korea's Park Young-hwan Kyudan. But Xu Jiayuan still had a gap against a chess player who had won the world championship many times, and eventually lost to his opponent. After the end of the first stage, South Korea temporarily took the lead with 2 wins and 1 loss.
The second stage is South Korea's Park Tinghuan facing China's Fan Tingyu Nine Dan, after Fan Tingyu won, China and South Korea both ranked first with 2 wins, and then it was The turn of Yuta Iyama to play, successively defeating China's Fan Tingyu, South Korea's Bian Sang Yi Jiu Dan, China's Lee Chin-sung Jiu Dan and South Korea's Shin Min Yong Jiu Dan won 4 consecutive wins, and Japan ranked first in one fell swoop.
Lin Hanjie: Everyone is a chess player who has won the world championship, and it is really unexpected to be able to face these chess players to win 4 consecutive games. In particular, Bian Xiangyi, who is currently the most powerful chess player in South Korea, can also defeat his opponents, and it can be said that the current state of Yuta Iyama is still very good.
Junshi Tsuruyama: Yuta Iyama's first game against Fan Tingyu and the fourth game against Shin Min-woo are both reversed wins. It's really remarkable that you can reverse the victory against the world's top chess players. It can be seen that Iyama Yuta is very confident, even if the situation in the middle is unfavorable, giving people a sense of peace of mind that there is always a chance to win in the end.
The title of "world's first" is really desirable. Yuta Iyama's 4-game winning streak brought Japanese Go closer to the "dream" for a long time.
Whether the dream can be realized, South Korea still has The Nine Duan of Shen Zhenchen, and China has the Nine Duan of Ke Jie and the Nine Duan of Mi Yuting, which is still a high-level confrontation. Can the Japanese team (Yuta Iyama 9 dan, Ichiri Liao 9 dan, Yu Zhengqi 8 dan) achieve good results?