Special correspondent Guca reported that on March 8, the third game of South Korea's first Bullsk And Claw Cup Five-Legged Chess Showdown ended, and the second-ranked Park Ting-hwan Jiudan won the fourth-place Lee Dong-hoon Nine Dan in 270 hands, 3-0 clean sheets, and won the championship again in South Korea after more than two years.
The total budget of the Korea Bull's Knee And Claw Cup competition is 250 million won (about 1.5 million yuan), and the prize money for the champion and runner-up is 50 million and 20 million won respectively. Prizes ranging from 10 million won to 4 million won from the 3rd to 12th places, and there are matching fees in the first and second rounds of qualifiers and final qualifiers. This is also the unique feature of this chess game when it was founded.
South Korea's newly created tournament creates opportunities for all professional chess players as much as possible, and one of the major symbols is the establishment of large and small round robins. The Ox-knee Claw Cup format is more complicated, with 12 players who advance through pre-selection and 20 players ranked 3rd to 10th in The Korean rankings, divided into five groups for double elimination. The top two qualifiers in each group totaled 10 people, and together with shin Jin-hyun and Park Tinghuan, who were exempted from selection, formed two 6-player circular circles of A and B, and the first place in the circular circle decided the champion through five pieces of chess.
In the round robin of Group A, Shin Jin-hyun and Lee Dong-hoon won four consecutive games, and Shin Jin-chan unexpectedly suffered a complete defeat in the last round of the game. The Final of Group B was played between Park Tinghuan's nine dan and Kim Ji Seok's nine dan, and the "Crown Prince" Kim Ji-seok's winning rate against Park Tinghuan was quite unbearable, only 5 wins and 11 losses, and as a result, Park Tinghuan was killed again, and he won the game in 166 hands and advanced to the final of the five-game chess.
The first set of the final was played on February 20, and Lee Dong-hoon, who was in charge of the white, did not seem to have entered the state, and was suppressed by Park Tinghuan, and the winning percentage was one-sided. Before the end of the game, the two sides in the upper side of the fight, Lee Dong-hoon had a series of major miscalculations, the winning rate fell to the end, Park Tinghuan ended the game with a double call, and easily came out on top.
The second game of the final was held on March 7, the battle Lee Dong-hoon is still not in the state, the next right battle, the white Park Tinghuan broke through the black corner and created a disaster first, in order to win this robbery, Lee Dong-hoon did not hesitate to make a big loss in the upper left corner, and when Park Tinghuan gave up the robbery, the peripheral gain had exceeded the value of the robbery, and the winning rate was close to 90%.
Park Tinghuan was still in his hand first, taking the lead in attacking the upper right black chess number, Lee Dong-hoon's subsequent moves were unbelievable, he pounced for half a day and actually sent them all to death, which was the work of a master of his level. After the black dragon was slaughtered, the rest of the process had already entered the garbage time, and after symbolically continuing to play several hands, Li Dongxun conceded defeat in the middle.
In the third game, Li Dongxun's state was late, and when he reached more than 100 hands, the winning rate was still five or five, and then the white chess piece was both in the lower game, and the winning rate once led. However, it may be due to a mistake in judging the situation, Lee Dong-hoon was too leisurely when he was alone on the left, and after being sharply cut off by Park Tinghuan, he gained a lot and the winning rate was reversed. After that, Park Tinghuan firmly held on to this advantage, pushed forward thickly, and guided the final game steadily and properly, winning with the advantage of half an eye.
Sadly, since the rise of Shin Jin-hyun in 2020, Park Ting-hwan has had a hard-to-find crown in South Korea, and the last time he won the championship was the Korean Dragon Star War in November 2019, when the opponent he defeated in the decisive battle was Shin Jin-chan, but after a year, there was a drastic change. If it were not for lee dong hoon's assist in this game, it is difficult to say whether Park Tinghuan can return to South Korea with a crown family.