Special correspondent Guca reported that on April 10, the 4th SENKO CUP World Women's Go Strongest Final was held online, and Japanese chess player Aishami Nobuya 4 dan defeated Chinese Taipei Lu Yuhua 3 dan in 143 hands, winning the championship for the first time, which is also the first time that a Japanese chess player has won the championship since the tournament was held.
The 8 strongest players in the world's women's Go of the Fanxing Cup this year are: the top four Fujisawa Rishi 5-dan in the japanese domestic Fanxing Cup women's strongest competition, the 4-dan Ueno Aisami, the 7-dan Xie Yimin, the suzuki step-7-dan and the Zhongyi Shiro 2nd dan recommended by the organizers, as well as the Chinese, Korean and Chinese Taipei representatives Yu Zhiying 7dan, Cui Jingjiudan and Lu Yuhua 3dan. In the first round of the tournament on 8 April, the two strongest queens in the women's chess world today, Yu Zhiying 7 dan and Choi Sei 9 dan, were eliminated by Aimi Ueno 4 dan and Xie Yimin 7 dan respectively, ensuring that Japanese players advanced to the final. In the semi-finals, Ueno Aimi and Lu Yuhua defeated Riki Fujisawa and Xie Yimin respectively, both of whom reached the final for the first time.
Ueno Aisami is currently a japanese female chess saint, and her best record in the world championship is in the 3rd Wu Qingyuan Cup World Women's Go Tournament in 2020 in the round of 16, cui jingjiu dan, to advance to the quarterfinals. That was also the only time Cui Jing did not participate in the Wu Qingyuan Cup final. Born in 1997, Lu Yuhua entered the dan in 2019 and started late, but she jumped to the third dan with the record of winning the Taiwan Omori Cup Women's Celebrity Battle championship that year. In 2021, Lu Yuhua won the 7th Jianqiao Cup Women's Go Strongest Battle and the 4th Omori Cup Women's Celebrity Battle championship in Taiwan, becoming the first woman in Baodao Women's Go, and also qualified to represent Taiwan in the world's strongest women's game. In the first round of the competition, she defeated Japan's Suzuki Buchidan, and in the semifinals, she eliminated Xie Yimin, the former first Japanese women's Go player, out of the seventh dan, which was impressive.
In the final game, Ueno Aisami took the lead in the black, and the prologue was a four-way shoulder rush to the right of the white chess star position Xiaofei shouang angle, and the momentum was compelling. Lu Yuhua was not afraid of the challenge and decided to choose to meet the battle, but in the response, the method was not compact enough, and he was caught by the warlike "hammer sister" Ueno Aisami, forcing Bai Guqi to flee unilaterally early, and the general situation was backward. When you reach 50 hands, the black chess winning rate is close to 90%. Not only that, this kind of scene of relying on the thick momentum to attack the whole line is liked and good at by Ueno Aisami, and the white chess is more fierce and less auspicious.
Lu Yuhua tried to launch a counterattack, but it backfired, and after the black chess piece split the white chess into three, the white chess piece was in a more dangerous situation. The peripheral white chess piece seems to block the black chess inside, but it is only a bluff, the black chess piece a series of powerful short charges that make the white chess defense line collapse, after a piece of white chess is killed, the black chess piece is solid in the whole line, so it has no scruples to kill another piece of white dragon, the white chess piece rushes left and right, and the small half of the game still can't do two eyes, and has to concede defeat.
In the third place battle, Fujisawa Rishi's fifth dan showed his nemesis style, continued to eat and take the dividends of Xie Yimin's seven dan, turned Xie Yimin's white chess attack into invisibility, and won twice easily.
The top four places in this year's Fanxing Cup World Women's Go Strongest Tournament are: Aimi Ueno, Lu Yuhua, Risato Fujisawa, and Xie Yimin. The tournament was organized by the Japan Chess Academy, with a prize money of 5 million yen for the winner, 1.5 million yen for the runner-up, 1 million yen for the third and fourth places, and 500,000 yen for the first three championships.