The 23rd Ahantongshan Cup Chinese Go Quick Chess Tournament was an upset, and in the first two rounds of this tournament, eight of the top 10 players in the rating have been eliminated.
One of the most tragic is last year's civil war triple crown champion Ding Hao, who lost to the average of one dragon per game in this qualifier and did not even qualify for this competition.
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In the first round of the round of 16 of this competition, it has become a waterloo for many masters. The first person in the rating score and the eight-time champion of the World Series Ke Jie was defeated by Tong Mengcheng, the second person who is in good form this year, Li Xuanhao, who is in excellent form this year, was unexpectedly blocked by Yang Kaiwen, the hero of the Nongshim Cup and the third person in the rating, Fan Tingyu, the hero of the Nongshim Cup and the third person in the rating, lost to Jiang Weijie and missed the quarterfinals, and Li Weiqing, one of the protagonists of the Youth Storm of the League, lost to the veteran world champion Chen Yaoye; Fifth-ranked double World Series champion Yuting Yuting failed to cross this hurdle; Yang Dingxin, ranked fourth in the rating and historically relatively stable, was repelled by fast knife player Li Qincheng.
Gu Zihao, the only one of the top seven in the rating to reach the quarterfinals, like Ding Hao, also won three domestic championships last year, but this year seems to have lost all the lines, having previously lost the title of Tianyuan, this time the Ahantong Mountain Cup he was sent home by Li Qincheng in the second round as the defending champion.
However, after going through twists and turns, the semifinals of this year's Ahan Tongshan Cup returned to the "right path" and did not have an upset. The match ended on October 25, with 98 double-pair Li Qincheng and Xie Erhao winning, defeating Yang Kaiwen and Huang Yunsong respectively to advance to the final.
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Let's first look at the battle between Xie Erhao and the dark horse Yang Kaiwen. Yang Kaiwen has played well in the Ahantong Mountain Cup and the big chess tournament recently, but he did not perform well in today's game, in the contact battle on the upper right, Yang Kaiwen black's 37th hand A series of moves, can be described as a series of mistakes, the result of the fierce battle between the two sides is Yang Kaiwen's black horn was slaughtered, and the win rate given by AI suddenly fell to 1%. After that, Yang Kaiwen had no intention of fighting, and after only 1 hour, Xie Erhao won the middle set.
The other game was played by Li Qincheng against Huang Yunsong. Both are good at fast chess and debuted early. Lee Chin Seng once defeated Shin Jin-hyun in the final of the 28th Asian Cup TV Quick Chess tournament in 2016, when he was only 18 years old; Huang Yunsong was also 18 years old when he won the 17th Ahantongshan Cup in 2015. In this game, Huang Yunsong was black, and he made a mistake in the battle on the right side, so that his opponent Li Qincheng had a certain advantage for a long time. Since then, Huang Yunsong has been stubbornly catching up, causing the situation to get closer and forming a situation of mutual stalemate. Entering the stage of big officials, the situation has wavered one after another, but fortunately, Li Qincheng seized the last opportunity to lock in the outcome of a small victory and win in the middle market.
Hosted by the China International Friendship Association and the China Go Association, and sponsored by Japan, the final of this cup is expected to be held at the end of this year. The prize money for the champion is 200,000 yuan, and the runner-up is 80,000 yuan. The game lasts 30 seconds per move, and 10 one-minute seconds are reserved.
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At the end of the year, there will be a matchup between the Sino-Japanese Ahan Kiriyama Cup champion against the little-known Japanese champion Tomoya Hirata Shichidan, with a prize fund of 5 million yen for the winner and 2 million yen for the loser. If both champions are in hand, the total prize money will be close to 500,000 yuan, which should be an attractive amount.
Whether it is the world champion Xie Erhao who will be on the championship podium of this year's Ahantongshan Cup, or the fast knife player Li Qincheng's dream will be realized before the end of this year.