Special correspondent Guca reported that on March 8, the second round of the 26th "Maqiao Cup" Chinese Go Newcomer Wang Tournament was played in Beijing and Hangzhou, and the Goddess Festival treated two female chess players generously, and the two post-00 Zhou Hongyu six dan and Tang Jiawen four dan defeated their opponents to advance to the quarterfinals, of which Zhou Hongyu won 20 consecutive victories in the official competition calculating grade points since the first round of the Jianqiao Cup on September 27, 2021.
Sponsored by the China Weiqi Association and the Shanghai Chess Academy, and organized by the Shanghai Weiqi Association, the Shanghai Minhang District Sports Bureau, and the People's Government of Maqiao Town, Minhang District, Shanghai, based on the grade scores announced as of January 31, 2022, the 32 professional chess players registered with the China Weiqi Association who are under the age of 18 (born after January 1, 2004) and women under the age of 20 (born after January 1, 2002) are eligible to participate. If there is a waiver, it will be made up in order of grade. In the event of a tie in rank, a qualifier will be arranged for selection.
In the first round of the competition held yesterday, the 2021 rookie champion Li Haotong 4 dan, the 2021 WeiJia League playoffs Jin Yucheng 4 dan and the 2021 Wu Qingyuan Cup final four Fang Ruoxi 5 dan were eliminated, and Zhou Hongyu 6 dan and Tang Jiawen 4 dan defeated Qiu Yuran Chu duan and Ye Changxin 2 dan respectively to participate in the second round of the goddess festival.
Tang Jiawen four duan and Hu Zihao three duan have lost three times before, this time again, the middle abdomen battle set the trend of victory and defeat, the battle spread to the lower left corner, the black beard Hao wanted to intimidate the lower left white horn, but was strongly broken by Tang Jiawen counterattack, after the formation of a robbery, Tang Jiawen abandoned the upper left corner to eliminate the robbery, the original thin taste of the mid-abdomen white chess pieces are all connected into one piece, the winning rate is close to 100%.
Tang Jiawen under the advantage of thick promotion, not to give the black chess to turn over the opportunity. In order to grab the air, Hu Zihao insisted on not repairing the knife in the upper left, giving Bai Qi the opportunity to come back to life with the help of robbery. In the process of robbery, Tang Jiawen locked in the victory by finding a slight profit from the robbery material, ending the 3-game losing streak against the latter.
Zhou Hongyu Liudan once performed a miracle in the 2019 Rookie Wang Battle, winning consecutive young masters such as Liu Yuhang Liu Dan and Chen Haoxin Wu Dan, following Yu Zhiying Liu Dan in 2014, and then creating an amazing record of female chess players to reach the top of the Rookie Wang. In this round, she played against Xu Yidi, a player from the Luoyang Yuquan Valley team of the Weijia League, and when she fought to nearly 150 hands, she was still in a stalemate situation, and the winning rate was equal. In the middle of the game, Xu Yidi bent too much, causing the white chess to be strongly broken, and the black dragon fled from the middle abdomen all the way to the right side of the game and stubbornly resisted, but because it was a very unfavorable slow gas robbery, the winning rate fell to single digits.
The robbery lasted for nearly a hundred hands, Zhou Hongyu judged accurately, discarded the upper right white horn and then eliminated the robbery, and then first dissolved the thick potential of the middle abdomen black chess piece into an empty potential, locking in the victory.
The last rookie Wang Zhan runner-up Wang Xinghao Liudan just won 3 consecutive victories in the 2022 Government Cup International Emerging Team Competition, in good shape, the first round of the 12-year-old Chen Jiarui's first stage, this round of black against Wang Chunhui second dan, the first half of the white chess in the left game of the black momentum to launch a great success, the original is the attacking side of the black chess but had to shrink to work, the winning rate fell to about 20%.
Smoothly progressed to the second half of the game, the winning rate of the upper right white chess after the success of the lonely treatment once rose to more than 90%, but Wang Chunhui did not spare people, but also in the middle abdomen to expand the results of the battle, at the expense of a single official to cut off the black dragon, to loot, and even let it rush into the right plate white space, it is really to lure the wolf into the room, the risk of the extreme. Wang Xinghao took advantage of the situation and reversed it in one fell swoop.
Results of the 26th Rookie Wang Zhan Round of 16:
Upper Half:
Chen Haoxin five dan sheng Wu Junyi first paragraph
Fu Jianheng second stage Victory Lin Zijie first paragraph
Yang Zhiwen's first paragraph won the first paragraph of Wang Chuxuan's first paragraph
Wang Xinghao's sixth dan sheng Wang Chunhui's second stage
Lower Half:
Zheng Zai wants to win three paragraphs Zhang Xinyu's first paragraph
Ma Shuai's first paragraph won zhang Luozixin's second stage
Tang Jiawen won four stages and Hu Zihao three stages
Zhou Hongyu six dan Sheng Xu Yidi two paragraphs
Tomorrow's truce, March 10 will be played in the quarterfinals, against: Chen Haoxin five dan vs Fu Jianheng two dan, Wang Xinghao six duan vs Wang Chuxuan chu duan, Zheng Zaixiang three duan vs Ma Shuai chu duan, Zhou Hongyu six duan VS Tang Jiawen four dan. The prize money for the rookie king championship and runner-up is 120,000 yuan and 70,000 yuan respectively.