On November 16, South Korean Go player Shin Jin-chen and Chinese player Yang Dingxin will face off in the semifinals of the 27th LG Cup.
Shen Zhenzhen admired Yang Dingxin very much. He said in 2020 that Yang Dingxin is the highest level chess player in China. Shin Zhenzhen and Yang Dingxin both reached the finals in the 26th LG Cup. Yang Dingxin led most of the time in the first set, and just when people thought that Yang Dingxin would win Shen Zhenzhen to surprise everyone, Shen Zhenzhen still stubbornly chased after him. Yang Dingxin, who lost a good game, lost again in the second set, and Shin Zhenzhen finally defeated Yang Dingxin 2-0 to win the championship.
After the game, Shen Zhenzhen greatly appreciated Yang Dingxin:
Yang Dingxin Jiudan played the most perfect Go game that humans can play.
Although I prepared a lot for this competition, it was difficult for me to be satisfied. Of course, I am very satisfied with the result.
Chinese chess player Yang Ding is the most advanced in terms of new technology.
Now Shin Zhenzhen and Yang Dingxin are going to meet again in the semifinals of the 27th Cup.
At a time when the thickness of Chinese Go is incomparably invincible, Korean Go is under great pressure. Shin Jin-jin has become almost the only hope for Korean Go.
Faced with the expectations of the Korean Go community and the desperate sharpness and thickness of Chinese Go, Shin said:
I want to inherit Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol, and I will do my best. In the past heyday of Lee Chang-ho, the world Go was under the banner of 'Down with Lee Chang-ho', and I now want to see a new banner to change the situation in which Korean Go has been stalled for a long time.
I have to say that the current Shin Jin-hyun has surpassed Lee Chang-ho and become the new Korean Go banner. If the World Go Championship can maintain the scale of 4~5 per year, it is only a matter of time before Shin Jin-hyun surpasses Lee Chang-ho's 17 world championships.
In the history of the world's Go game, no chess player can maintain the current suppression of contemporary masters like the current Shen Zhenzhen. Shin has won 32 consecutive wins against non-Korean players and 24 consecutive wins against Chinese professional players at the World Series.
Compared with Shin Zhenzhen, who is the only hope of Korean Go, the low-key Yang Dingxin has unknowingly become the best player in Chinese Go in the past two years. In the 26th LG Cup, Yang Dingxin was the only one to enter the final four and reached the final. Yang Dingxin was the only Chinese chess player in the 27th Samsung Cup to reach the quarterfinals. In the 27th LG Cup, Yang Dingxin reached the final four again.
Today, Ding Hao defeated South Korea's Jiang Dongrun and took the lead in reaching the final of the 27th LG Cup, taking off his embarrassing hat of "civil war dragon, foreign war worm" in one fell swoop. This will undoubtedly greatly motivate Yang Dingxin, and expect Yang Dingxin to play his form in the semifinals to defeat Shin Zhenzhen.