Original title: Comparison of Chinese and Korean chess players world champions in the past ten years Stopping Xiao Shen, who is in the limelight, is a top priority
This year's Samsung Cup ended with Korean chess players winning the final four and Shin Jinjin winning the championship. This is indeed a major blow to Chinese Go, but we can't just look at the ups and downs of a game, stretch the timeline to ten years, and we can more clearly see the offensive and defensive advances and retreats of Chinese and Korean Go on the world championship stage during this period.
Since the establishment of the World Go Professional Championship in 1988, it has gone through several stages such as Japan-South Korea rivalry, China's occasional appearance, South Korea's domination, and China's catch-up, and by 2013, China's young chess players rose in an all-round way and finally suppressed the Korean Wave.
From 2013 to 2022, exactly ten years. The world championships are all attributed to Chinese and Korean players, and the following are the specific wins of each year:
Year 1: In 2013, Chinese chess players won six world championships that year, and produced six new world champions - Zhou Ruiyang (1st Bailing Cup), Shiyue (17th LG Cup), Fan Tingyu (7th Ying's Cup), Chen Yaoye (9th Chunlan Cup), Wei Yuting (1st Dream Lily Cup), Tang Weixing (18th Samsung Cup). China 6-0 South Korea.
The following year: In February 2014, Jiaxi won the 18th LG Cup, adding another world champion to China, and Chinese players won seven consecutive championships. In December, Kim Ji-seok defeated Tang Wei-sung 2-0 in the final to win the 19th Samsung Cup for South Korea, which won one title each in the World Series that year. China 1 to 1 South Korea.
Year 3: In January 2015, Ke Jie won the 2nd Bailing Cup and won his first world championship. Park won the 19th LG Cup in February, Guli won the 10th Chunlan Cup in June, and Ke Jie won the 20th Samsung Cup in December, giving China a 3-1 lead in South Korea.
Year 4: In January 2016, Ke Jie narrowly defeated Lee Sedol to win the 2nd Dream Lily Cup. In February, Jiang Dongrun won the 20th LG Cup. In October, Tang Weixing won the 8th Ying's Cup. In December, Ke Jie and Chen Yaoye won the 21st Samsung Cup and the 3rd Bailing Cup respectively. China leads South Korea 4-1 in the number of world champions.
Year 5: In 2017, Dang Yifei (21st LG Cup), Tan Xiao (11th Chunlan Cup), Gu Zihao (22nd Samsung Cup), Ke Jie (1st New Austrian Cup) won four World Series championships for China this year, and Chinese chess players won seven World Series titles in a row the year before. This year, China is 4-0 South Korea.
Year 6: In January 2018, Park won the 3rd Dream Lily Cup to stop the decline of South Koreans. But then in February, Xie Erhao won the 22nd LG Cup, in December Ke Jie won the 23rd Samsung Cup, Chen Yaoye won the 1st Tianfu Cup, and Chinese chess players once again won three consecutive championships, leading South Korea 3-1 in the number of championships for the whole year.
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Year 7: In 2019, Ke Jie won the 4th Bailing Cup in January and the 23rd LG Cup in February. In June, Park Tinghuan won the 12th Chunlan Cup, and in September, Tang Weixing won the 24th Samsung Cup, and Chinese players led South Korea 3-1.
Year 8: In February 2020, Shin Zhenzhen won the 24th LG Cup and broke the cocoon into a butterfly. In November, Ke Jie won the 25th Samsung Cup, a year in which China and South Korea each won a championship.
Year 9: In 2021, Shin Min-chan defeated Ke Jie to win the 25th LG Cup in February, Yuting won the 4th Dream Lily Cup in May, Shin Jinzhen won the 13th Chunlan Cup in September, Park Tinghuan won the 26th Samsung Cup in November, and South Korea led China 3-1.
Year 10: Two world champions in 2022, Shin Jin-chen won the 26th LG Cup in February, and he won the 27th Samsung Cup in November. China 0 to 2 South Korea.
In this decade, a total of 37 world champions were produced, with 26 Chinese players and 11 South Korean players, and the total number of Chinese players winning the championship was far ahead, but since 2020, the World Series has moved online, and the number of Chinese and South Korean championships has been 2 to 6.
In this process, in 2016, Shen Zhenzhen reached the quarterfinals of the Bailing Cup and LG Cup, and lost to Chen Yaoye and Dang Yifei in the semifinals.
In 2018, he reached the finals of the Tianfu Cup and the Bailing Cup, losing 1-2 to Chen Yaoye and 0-2 to Ke Jie respectively.
In 2020, Shin Jin-hyun defeated Park Tinghuan 2-0 in the LG Cup final to realize his dream of becoming a world champion. In the same year, the Samsung Cup lost 0-2 to Ke Jie in the final.
Since 2021, Shen Zhenzhen has successively reached the finals of four world competitions of Chunlan Cup, Samsung Cup (twice two years) and LG Cup, winning three crowns and one runner-up.
So far, Shin Zhenzhen has won a total of four world championships and four runners-up. Compared to such achievements, what he showed on the chessboard is more formidable, especially in the past two years, he has not fought and shown his superior strength. By the end of this Samsung Cup, Shen Zhenzhen has reached 23 consecutive wins against Chinese players in the international arena, which is a big stone in the heart of Chinese Go.
A few days later, the new LG Cup quarterfinals and semifinals will be held, with four Chinese players in the quarterfinals, three from South Korea and one from Japan. The quarterfinals will be played against each other:
Ke Jie Jiang Dongrun
Wei Yuting Shen Zhenzhen
Ding Hao Jin Myung-hun
Yang Dingxin Shibano Maru
Although the winner of this LG Cup will be decided next year, it is possible that China and South Korea will win the championship this year. Whether Chinese players can seize the opportunity and rebound strongly, the most urgent thing is to stop the momentum of defending champion Shen Zhenzhen's invincibility.
Go for it, national hands.