Special correspondent Guca reported that on September 2, the 27th Samsung Cup World Go Masters Chinese Player Selection Tournament Women's Group Competition ended, Yu Zhiying seven dan Zhibai defeated Rui Naiwei nine dan, the two points, opponent points are exactly the same, because in the last round of the two-person hedge battle Yu Zhiying won, so she was selected for the Chinese team lineup with a direct victory, which is also her second time after 2015 to participate in the Samsung Cup.
The new Samsung Cup will be held from October 27 to November 9, with a total of 32 participants, from the first round to the final. The Chinese Weiqi Association has a total of 11 places, and the 4 seeded players are Yang Dingxin Jiudan, Zhao Chenyu Jiudan (the last four finals), Ke Jie Jiudan and Tang Weixing Jiudan, and 6 male chess players and 1 female chess player were selected in the qualifiers.
The men's domestic qualifiers are made up of 24 people ranked high in the rankings, divided into six groups, and 6 qualifiers are determined through three rounds of single-elimination matches. The first round of matches ended on 12 August, and the last two rounds began in September.
After four rounds, Rui Naiwei won 4 consecutive games in the ninth stage, and Yu Zhiying won 3 wins and 1 loss in the 7th dan, and the qualifying quota will be generated between them. If Rui Naiwei wins, he will directly qualify; Instead, the opponents will be compared.
Yu Zhiying in the 2015 Samsung Cup competition
In today's game, the black Rui Naiwei first fished for four corners, forcing Yu Zhiying to operate the mid-belly white momentum, and after the white chess piece was slightly laid on the periphery, he immediately launched a town attack on the large black piece of lone chess produced on the right side. Rui Naiwei chose to be too fierce in actual combat, ignoring Yu Zhiying's attack, and taking off the first to the upper side plate and giving birth to a lone chess piece. Yu Zhiying met the source left and right, up and down his hands, and attacked the two black lone chess pieces, occupying the initiative of the situation.
After a life-and-death handover, Yu Zhiying judged that even if the black dragon was put on the road, because the periphery was thick and the external situation was huge, and the simple encirclement could also be a stable victory, so he no longer insisted on pursuing and killing, but let the two black dragons work on the spot, and introduced the chess game into the obviously favorable official restraint of the white chess.
The white chess piece was able to encircle the air first, blocking the exit of the lower left and lower right into the white air, and the big air was successful, and the advantage was continuous, and the winning rate was close to 90%. Rui Naiwei, who was pessimistic about the situation, resolutely did not fill the loopholes in the right-hand robbery, and waited for Zhiying to detonate the robbery after eating and make a final attempt.
However, this robbery was heavy and white, and Yu Zhiying made a slight concession on the upper right to eliminate the robbery and firmly locked the victory. By the end of the 279-hand game, the white chess piece won with 8 and a half eyes. After five rounds, Yu Zhiying and Rui Naiwei's points were exactly the same as those of their opponents, with 8 and 24 points, because Zhiying won the final battle and was selected for the Chinese team with a direct victory. Yu Zhiying last participated in the Samsung Cup in 2015, and in that tournament, she shined, winning the 9 dan of Mu Zhen Shuo and Cui Zhehan in the round of 32 double-elimination matches, and then losing to Lee Sedol 9 dan in the round of 16. She also became the first female chess player to successfully break through in the round of 32 double-elimination match.
In the other three sets at the same time, Wu Yiming won li Xiaoxi in four stages, Lu Minquan won in six stages over Fang Ruoxi in five, and Tang Jiawen won in four stages over Zhou Hongyu in six paragraphs. The final rankings are: Yu Zhiying, Rui Naiwei, Wu Yiming, Li Xiaoxi, Fang Ruoxi, Tang Jiawen, Lu Minquan, Zhou Hongyu.
In the round of 32, Japan has 4 places, Chinese Taipei 1, and 1 wild card to be determined. South Korea's 15 contestants have been determined, 6 seeded players are Shin Jin-hyun, Park Young-hwan, Bian Sang-il, Shin Min-jun, Kang Dong-yun, Kim Ji-seok, and the 9 winners of the selection competition are Lee Chang-ho, Choi Jing, Won Sung-hyun, Kim Myung-hoon, Lee Kyung-jin, Kwon Hyo-jin, Chin-hyun, Yoo Seung-sung, and Han You-seok.
In the first 26 Samsung Cup, Chinese chess players won the championship 11 times, South Korea 13 times, Japan 2 times, and from 2015 to 2020, Chinese chess players have won 6 consecutive championships, and the prize money for the champions and runners-up of the competition is 300 million and 100 million won respectively.