The 10th Fujitsu Cup south Korea featured six players, but only defending champion Lee Chang-ho had a first-round bye. Participating in the first round were Cho Hyun-hyun, Seo Bong-so, and Yoo Chang-hyuk, three of the Four Heavenly Kings, as well as Leung Jae-ho and Choi Myung-hoon, who were considered the fifth in Korea for a long time.
Cao Xuanxuan lost the first battle to the young Japanese chess player Yu Chengcong, And Choi Myung-hoon was also eliminated by his Chinese peer Zhou Heyang, and of the remaining three, Liang Zaihao's opponent was the strongest - Japan's first-class powerful Wang Licheng.
At that time, Wang Licheng was still under the pressure of the six super leagues in Japan and did not reach the height of super first-class. In 1995, Wang Licheng defeated Zhao Zhixun 3-0 at the Throne Challenge, winning the title of Seven Chess For the first time, but the following year's defending battle was 0-3 against Liu Shixuan.
In the international arena, Wang Licheng's performance is quite eye-catching. He is playing in the Fujitsu Cup for the fifth time, after reaching the quarterfinals in the third edition, reaching the final four in the fourth edition, and finishing runners-up in the fifth edition, improving one step a year. However, after losing to Yoo Chang-hyuk in the first round of the sixth edition, he has been in a four-year relationship with the Fujitsu Cup stage
In mid-March, he defeated Koichi Kobayashi in the final of the NHK Cup in Japan to qualify for that year's Asian Television Quick Chess Tournament. In April, he qualified for the Fujitsu Cup after qualifying for Japan, with great ambition.
Liang Zaihao is the seventh, and hindsight and final, fujitsu Cup. He had previously won 3-6, beating Yoshio Ishida, Hayashi Haifeng and Sakai, but had never reached the quarterfinals.
In September 1996, in the second round of the first Samsung Cup, Wang Licheng lost to Liang Zaihao, and Liang Zaihao then reached the final four, setting a personal world championship best. After the first round of the draw, Wang Licheng said that he wanted to "Seoul's revenge tokyo newspaper".
The first round of the 10th Fujitsu Cup
Black: Liang Jae-ho Jiudan (Korea)
White: Wang Licheng Kudan (Japan)
Black paste 5 1/2 mesh
A total of 158 lots
White wins in the middle of the game
Date of match: 12 April 1997
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Wang Licheng, who holds the white game of chess, fished first and then washed, and when the black chess piece killed the left white chess dragon, he moved exquisitely and lived smoothly, and only 158 hands forced Liang Zaihao to surrender and realize the promise of "revenge".
After Liang Zaihao lost the game, he bid farewell to the Fujitsu Cup stage, leaving a total score of 3 wins and 7 losses. As young Korean chess players emerge one by one, Leung Jae-ho, who was born in 1963, is about to abdicate and give way to Hyun.
Wang Licheng
Liang Zaihao
Seo Bong-so, who was also known as "Cho Seo" with Cho Hwan-hyun, played in the first ten Fujitsu Cups in a row like Cho Hwan-hyun and was one of only four full-time chess players remaining at that time.
Seo Bong-so's best record at the Fujitsu Cup was to finish fourth in the second edition and lose the first round in the eighth and ninth consecutive rounds, and it seems that the competitiveness is no longer as good as it was in the past. However, from December 1996 to February 1997, Xu Bongsu achieved a historic record of nine consecutive victories at the fifth Zhenlu Cup, and one person crushed the Chinese and Japanese teams, shocking the world. In this context, he fought again at the Fujitsu Cup, which is naturally a remarkable figure.
In the first round, Xu Bongsu had good luck and drew the Dutch chess player Zaist, who represented Europe. This is the second time that Zaist has represented Europe in the Fujitsu Cup, and in the first round of the seventh edition, he lost to Chinese actress Hua Xueming.
The first round of the 10th Fujitsu Cup
Black: Zaist 6 paragraphs (Europe)
White: Seo Bong-so 9-dan (Korea)
A total of 182 lots
The first battle of the disparity in strength, but Zaist's first half of the game was decent, and was not easily put down by Xu Bongsu's field style, and the battle was closed until noon, and some people even felt that Zaist's black chess situation was good.
In the second half of the set, Xu Bongsu exerted his strength, and the dragon slayer won, reaching the second round of the Fujitsu Cup again after three years.
Seo Bong-so
Another Korean king, Liu Chang hyuk, drew South American representative Wang Senfeng in the first round, which is even more suspenseful. Wang Senfeng has represented South America for the Fujitsu Cup for the fifth time, and can play against the world's top chess players, which is the envy of many professional chess players.
Liu Changhe has played in the Fujitsu Cup for eight consecutive years since the third Fujitsu Cup. He was the sixth champion, seventh runner-up, and eighth runner-up, but lost to Wang Minghuan (first-round bye) in the second round of the ninth, failing to add to the win.
Black: Wang Senfeng 6 section (South America)
White: Yoo Chang-hyuk Jiudan (Korea)
A total of 252 lots
White 29 eyes half win
This game of chess is like a guide chess, but Wang Senfeng has always had a good attitude, especially when he meets top chess players, he must insist on finishing the official no matter how bad the situation is. This time he lost 29-and-a-half-eyes and was still smiling after the game.
Liu Changhe
In the first round of the South Korean five-man game, only Xu Bongsu and Liu Changhe defeated european and American chess players, and Cao Xuanxuan, Liang Jae-ho and Choi Myung-hoon folded in front of the Sino-Japanese chess players, and the losses were not small. But this is just the beginning of their tragic waterloo in this Fujitsu Cup, and in the second round, a bigger blow awaits them.
In the first round of the 10th Fujitsu Cup, the Chinese mainland players won 2 wins and 1 loss, the Taiwanese players won 1, the Japanese players won 3 wins and 1 loss, the Korean players won 2 wins and 3 losses, and the European and American players lost 3. China and Japan 1:1 (including Taiwan's Zhou Junxun victory over Datake Hero), China and South Korea 1:0, Japan and South Korea 2:0.
Eight seeded players in the second round, a real world-class fierce battle...