On the afternoon of March 22, the first round of the 14th Chunlan Cup World Professional Go Championship was played online. Among the 6 Chinese chess players, Ding Hao, Li Qincheng, Li Weiqing and Li Xuanhao won and advanced to the round of 16. Shi Yue and Mi Yuting, following last year's first round out, lost to Kim Myung-hoon and Sada Tateshi this year and were once again out of the first round. All 3 Korean chess players were promoted, Japan's Sada Tokushi was retained, and all European and American chess players were eliminated.
The eight players who advanced in the first round were: Ding Hao, Li Qincheng, Li Weiqing, Li Xuanhao, Kim Myung-hoon, Kim Ji-seok, Bian Sang-yi, and Sada Toshishi.
The eight seeded players bye were: Tang Weixing, Ke Jie, Yang Dingxin, Gu Zihao, Xu Haofeng, Shin Jin-hyun, Park Ting-hwan, and Shin Min-hoon.
Immediately after the match, a draw for the round of 16 was held, and the results were as shown. The second round of matches will be held on March 24, and Yike Go will continue to be reported live, so stay tuned.
Before the game, I mentioned in the article "Chunlan Cup Preview: 6 Good Signings Can Cash Out a Few Percent" that Kim Myung-hoon should not be underestimated, and I also expected that it would be difficult to resist the Korean double male after Jingshan and Liaoshen were both injured, except for A miscalculation in Sada Tokushi. To sum up the reasons, on the one hand, I really don't know about this chess player, and I have a light enemy heart when I look forward to prediction; on the other hand, when I see the following picture after the game, I know who is the real "culprit":
The immortals could not escape a mouthful of milk
Of course, this article is positioned as a rigorous and professional pre-game analysis, and the author is also a staunch materialist. Regardless of the poisonous milk behind him, the pre-match data should still be sorted out.
Seeing the thrilling record of the hand-to-hand combat, I decided to start with the four stations with a history of playing.
Yang Dingxin maintained a 6-game winning streak against Kim Ji-seok, which can be called the opponent's "nemesis", the first confrontation was the 2013 Wei Jia, and the other 5 were after 2019. In the 4th round of the 2019 Nongshim Cup, last year's LG Cup Round of 16, the result was Kim Ji-seok's crisp defeat within 150 hands. It can be seen that Yang Dingxin's thick and steady style has indeed suppressed Kim Ji-seok's play, and this duel is still optimistic about Yang Dingxin's victory. However, from the perspective of this year's record, Yang Dingxin suffered four consecutive defeats with 1 win and 4 losses, and how the recent state adjustment is still a disturbing unknown.
Park Tinghuan is currently 5 wins and 1 loss against Li Weiqing, and Li Weiqing has encountered a bitter hand in this round. The first meeting was in the round of 32 of the 2014 LG Cup, where Lee Wei-ching lost to Park Young-hwan; the other five were after 2019, the only win was in the playoffs in December 2019, after which Lee Wei-ching suffered a four-game losing streak against Park Ting-hwan. The 2021 Samsung Cup Round of 32 is their second meeting in the World Series, park Tinghuan with a set of gorgeous operations in the middle abdomen to wipe out the thick power of black chess, that championship weather has been shown in this game.
This year's Li Weiqing won 6 wins and 1 loss, only lost to Ke Jie in the official game, and the youngest batch of nine dan came to their due year. The Round of 16 of the Chunlan Cup against Park Tinghuan is a fierce battle and a timing. For the main force of China's "post-00s" new generation, the blockade of "Ke, Park and Shen" is a difficult hurdle they must overcome. To borrow a word of encouragement from teacher Yang Zhicun: Seize every fighter plane and do not hand over the heavy responsibility of resisting Korea to the next group of younger national hands.
Ding Hao fell behind 3-1 against Shin Min-ho and lost 3 consecutive games. The only time the World Series met was in the round of 16 of the 2020 LG Cup, which was Ding Hao's complete defeat in terms of content. This LG Cup is all Shin Min-min's Show Time, all the way to the final to defeat Ke Jie, blowing the horn of the Korean counterattack. After that, he was like a burned-out rocket thruster, falling from the top four in South Korea to the ninth place in South Korea for more than a year, which is impressive. In terms of recent performance, it is obvious that Ding Haojiudan is stronger, and this Year's Chunlan Cup is also a valuable opportunity for him to achieve self-breakthrough.
Li Qincheng led Shin Jinchen 6:4, a record that has no reference significance for the prediction of the game. Their most recent encounter was in 2016, when Lee Chin-shing defeated Shin Jin-chan in the Asian Cup final and rose straight up to nine dan, his best world match. After that, the two became teammates in the armor, and they never played each other in the World Series, and the record was frozen. In terms of paper strength, Shen Zhenchen will not return to Wuxia Amon and Li Qincheng's current bureau will be very difficult.
Let's talk about the remaining four innings.
Jin Mingxun killed shi yue, the former first chinese man, and confronted Ke Jie again. Although the two of them did not have a formal confrontation, Ke Jie once played with Jin Mingxun in the live broadcast, and "sharply commented" on the other party's "chess is too smelly" "Ke Jie: Jin Mingxun's chess is too smelly": "Jin Mingxun's chess is too smelly, why should you play chess with this kind of person?" Pull black, this game of chess is finished pulling black... It's really good to win, chess is too smelly, and playing more chess with this kind of person will also decline... "Since the main lord has said it, there is no need to do more analysis, Ke Jie can't always lose, right?"
Gu Zihao and Bian Xiangyi were once teammates in Jiangxi, and even if they had not had a formal match, they should know each other better. On the strength of Gu Zihao to be stronger, the hidden dangers are similar to Yang Dingxin's side, this year's official game of Gu Zihao only has 4 games of chess in the Playoffs of The Gojia, three consecutive kneels after a victory, and there has been no chess for more than 2 months since then. Even the cattle master is afraid of idleness, and how Gu Zihao's recent state is equally worrying.
Tang Weixing and Li Xuanhao's "uncle and nephew" met two Chunlan black horses, Sada Tukshi and Xu Haofeng. Xu Haofeng defeated Shi Yue and Chen Yaoye in the last competition to reach the quarterfinals; Sada Tokushi defeated Mi Yuting in this competition, all of which are worthy of our face. I hope that Tang Weixing and Li Xuanhao can correct their mentality and exert their strength, I think it is expected to advance.
The Chunlan Cup is the first World Professional Go Tournament sponsored by Chinese mainland, and as a tournament, the number of participants is fixed. There are 24 players participating in the first stage of the Chunlan Cup, namely: the champion and runner-up of the 13th Chunlan Cup, 9 Chinese mainland players, 1 Chinese Taipei player, 5 Japanese players, 5 Korean players, 1 European chess player, and 1 American chess player.
The Chinese team consisted of 10 people: Tang Weixing participated as the runner-up of the previous year; Ke Jie, Mi Yuting, Ding Hao, Yang Dingxin, Gu Zihao and other 5 people were selected by points; 4 people qualified in the selection competition, namely Shi Yue liansheng Xie Ke and Lian Xiao, Li Xuanhao winning consecutive victories over Tan Xiao and Fan Tingyu, Li Qincheng winning consecutive victories over Xie Erhao and Jiang Weijie, Li Weiqing winning consecutive victories over Dang Yifei and Zhao Chenyu.
South Korea's 6 players: defending champions Shin Jin-hyun are exempted; Park Young-hwan and Shin Min-hyun compete as international champion seeds; Bian Sang-il and Kim Myung-hoon are exempted as national team seeds; Kim Ji-seok defeats Won Sung-joon, Lee Chang-seok, Hyun Hyun-joon, and Ahn Sung-jun in the selection round.
The Japanese team of 5: Kazurio, Yoshita Izuyama, Kane Kaitaro, and Shibano Toramaru are representatives of the Japanese Chess Academy, and the title holder Xu Jiayuan cannot participate because of the conflict with Yu Zhengqi's ten-stage challenge schedule; Sada Tokushi is the representative of the Kansai Chess Academy, and Yu Zhengqi is also unable to participate for the above reasons.
Chinese Taipei representative Xu Haofeng was selected from an 8-player circular circle of chess players such as Wang Yuanjun and Lin Juntan. The representative of the Americas, Li Liyan, and the representative of Europe, Ilya Szczesin.
All players participating in this year's Chunlan Cup will play online at the designated matchmaking location in their home country (or region). According to the requirements of the game, chess players are not allowed to carry or use other electronic products other than the game computer when participating, and if the participating chess players are found to have electronic products during the game, or if they view any situation that is not the game interface, they will be immediately awarded. In order to ensure the fairness of the game, the game will record the footage of the chess players throughout the game, implement all-round and full-lens monitoring, and the referees of various countries will also supervise the game in the game room.
The game adopts the rules of the Chinese Weiqi Association, and the black chess stickers are 3 and 3/4 subs, each side is 2.5 hours, and 5 times 1 minute reading seconds. The prize money for the winner is $150,000, the runner-up is $50,000, and the semifinals are $20,000.
The first and second rounds of the game will be broadcast live on the CCTV sports channel, and chess fans can also learn about the progress and information of the game from the official account of the China Weiqi Association, the douyin number and the official website of Chunlan (Group) Company.
Chunlan Cup Past Champions and Runners-up:
Number of years Year Champion Score Runner-up
1st 1999 Cho Hyun Hyun 2-1 Lee Chang-ho
2nd 2000 Wang Licheng 2-1 Ma Xiaochun
3rd 2001 Liu Changhe 2-1 Wang Licheng
4th 2003 Lee Chang-ho 2-0 Naoki Feather
5th 2005 Lee Chang-ho 2-1 Zhou Heyang
6th 2007 Coulee 2-0 Chang Hao
7th 2009 Chang Hao 2-0 Lee Chang-ho
8th 2011 Lee Sedol 2-1 Sheikh
9th 2013 Chen Yaoye 2-1 Lee Sedol
10th 2015 Coulee 2-0 Zhou Ruiyang
11th 2017 Tan Xiao 2-1 Park Yong-hoon
12th 2019 Park Young-hwan 2-0 Park Yong-hoon
13th 2021 Shin Jin-chan 2-0 Tang Weixing