Special correspondent Guca reported that on April 10, the 2022 Asian Games China National Go Team Training And Selection Tournament was held in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, and the men's group had two consecutive rounds of competitions in the men's and women's groups, with the men's group laughing nine dan, Fan Tingyu nine dan, Xie Ke nine dan and Li Xuanhao eight dan four consecutive victories, the women's group Chen Yiming four consecutive victories three times, Rui Naiwei nine dan, Li He five dan, Wang Yubo four dan, Tang Jiawen four four consecutive wins.
The 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games will once again set Go as an official competition, which is the second time that Go has entered the Asian Games after 12 years since the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. At present, although there are several major competitions with the nature of national confrontations in the chess industry, such as the Ying's Cup, Chunlan Cup, Samsung Cup, LG Cup, etc., the Asian Games are intercontinental comprehensive competitions, whether in scale or rank, far beyond the World Go Competition, and Korean chess players can only enjoy the treatment of exemption from military service if they win the gold medal of the Asian Games.
The Go event at the Hangzhou Asian Games is divided into three individual events, namely the men's and women's teams and the men's individuals. The tournament will take place for about 10 days, starting from September 12, with the men's individual competition, then the men's team and women's team competitions. In the men's team competition, each team consists of 5 people with 1 substitute, and the women's team has 3 people per team and 1 substitute. The players participating in the men's individual competition are selected from the five men's teams and will not be formed separately.
China and South Korea, which have the strength to compete for the three gold medals, have held selection competitions to select the strongest and best-in-form players to compete. Four male chess players, Named Shin Jin-hyun, Park Young-hwan Nine-Dan, Bian Sang-Il-dan, Kim Myung-hoon 8-dan and two female chess players, Choi Seung-jin and Oh Yoo-jin, who are ranked high within the national team, have been confirmed.
The Selection And Training of the Asian Games of the Chinese Go Team was launched in Quzhou on April 9, and the selection of the men's and women's teams of the Asian Games was divided into two stages, the men's selection was the champion and runner-up of the latest international and domestic competitions and the top 21 people ranked high, and the women's selection was the champion and runner-up of the latest international and domestic competitions and the members of the national women's team of the year. Among them, 5 men and 4 women with the highest ranking points in the domestic ranking directly entered the second stage.
In the first stage of the selection competition, through seven rounds of points arrangement, 5 male chess players and 4 female chess players were selected, and 10 male chess players and 8 female chess players participated in the second stage of selection. In the second stage of the selection tournament, there will be nine rounds of men's single round robin and 14 rounds of women's double round robin, and the Asian Games lineup of 6 male players and 4 female players is expected to be produced on April 22.
Hua Xueming, vice chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association and national Weiqi team, said that the goal of the Chinese team is to win 1 gold medal and compete for one in the medal table of The Go project. At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the Korean team won all three gold medals in the Go event.
Previously, the coaching team of the Chinese Go team participating in the Asian Games has been determined, with Hua Xueming as the team leader, Yu Bin Jiudan and Wang Lei Batdan as the head coach of the men's and women's teams respectively, and Huang Yizhong Qidan and Hu Yaoyu Badan as the coaches of the men's team and women's team respectively. Among them, Hu Yaoyu joined the Coaching Staff of the Asian Games through open recruitment.
In the two rounds of selection competitions held on April 10, Lian Xiao Jiu Duan, Xie Ke Jiu Dan and other performances were outstanding, in the second round of the match carried out that afternoon, Xie Ke Jiu Duan held the white side of the time, the white chess pieces in the left plate and the middle abdomen of the big appearance, luring the black chess into the invasion and elimination, "one dragon per game" transformed into "drilling mole", but the treatment of loneliness is not the best of the time, the black block of the lone chess part lives too hard, the white chess piece takes advantage of the thick edge, and then relies on the thick of the copper wall to enter the finale, standing in an invincible position.
Tomorrow's selection will continue, the third round of the men's group has a smile nine dan (4) vs Fan Tingyu nine dan (4), Xie Ke nine dan (4) vs Li Xuanhao eight dan (4), etc., the fourth round of the women's group has Chen Yiming four dan (6) vs Wang Yubo four dan (4), Tang Jiawen four dan (4) vs Li He five dan (4), Rui Naiwei nine dan (4) vs Wu Yiming three dan (2) and so on.