At 12:30 on August 20, the first game of the 3rd China Women's Go Celebrity Battle Challenge of the "Ordos Hureng Cup" was held in Yijin Holuo Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Yu Zhiying 7 dan took the stage to challenge the reigning female celebrity Zhou Hongyu 7 dan.
After nearly 6 hours of fighting, Zhou Hongyu's 303 hands won the final victory with a 3/4 sub-advantage.
Zhou Hongyu VS Yu Zhiying
As the two most competitive female chess players in China, Yu Zhiying and Zhou Hongyu have played a total of 7 games this year, including a title final and an invitational tournament, Yu Zhiying has achieved a score of 4 wins and 3 losses, and it is difficult to distinguish between her opponents.
Before this challenge, Yu Zhiying surged all the way to Li Xiaoxi, Fang Ruoxi, Tang Yi and other masters to win the women's celebrity challenge, and was in a seven-game winning streak, and the ranking score also rushed to 39th in China. Zhou Hongyu faces enormous pressure to defend his title.
In the first game of Sanbanqi, Zhou Hongyu took the black first. After 30 hands, the game gradually entered a chaotic pattern of several pieces entangled in lone pieces. Perhaps too much energy was spent in the first half of the battle, and many low-level mistakes occurred on both sides in the middle and back sets, the scene was completely out of control, and the chaos turned into a "spoon fight".
A completely runaway win curve
The last person to make a mistake was Yu Zhiying. The 252 hand block is the last defeat of the white chess game, and if the corner is at E10, it is expected to win by a small margin. In the end, Zhou Hongyu won 3/4 and won the first game of the challenge three-way chess.
Not the most serious but fatal mistake
Photography: The Sword of Evil
ZHOU Hongyu
Yu Zhiying
Women's celebrity battle competition will start to pay game fees (all in RMB): the first round loser game fee is 2,000 yuan, the second round loser game fee is 4,000 yuan, the third round loser is 6,000 yuan, the fourth round loser is 8,000 yuan, the challenge right loser is 20,000 yuan, the runner-up prize is 100,000 yuan, and the champion prize is 250,000 yuan.
Past champions
Second Year Champion Score Runner-up
1 2019 Chen Yiming 2-0 Wang Shuang
2 2020 Zhou Hongyu 2-1 Chen Yiming
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