Special correspondent Coca reported that on April 16, the second game of the 38th "Tongli Cup" Tianyuan Battle Final Trilogy was held in Tianyuan Garden, Tongli Ancient Town, and the challenger Lian Xiao Jiuduan Zhihei 207 defeated the reigning Tianyuan Yuting Jiuduan in his hand, and the score was tied 1-1, and the final game will be held tomorrow, that is, the third game, to determine the ownership of this Tianyuan title.
In this year's Tian Yuan Battle Competition, Lian Xiao defeated Chen Zhengxun 8th Duan, Wang Xinghao 9th Duan, Xue Guanhua 6th Duan, Fan Yin 8th Duan, and Li Weiqing 9th Duan, and entered the Tian Yuan Challenger Decisive Battle for the third time after 2017 and 2023, and won the right to challenge again after 7 years. Seven years ago, Lian Xiao defeated the defending champion Chen Yaoye Jiudan 2-0 in the decisive battle of Tianyuan, ending the latter's 8 consecutive championships, and becoming the only domestic chess player who has won the three major titles of chess saint, celebrity and Tianyuan.
The two and Tian Yuan are both fated to fight, Qi Yuting lost his first challenge to Tian Yuan in 2015, and in 2022 he made a comeback, 2 to 1 to defeat the incumbent Tian Yuan Gu Zihao Jiuduan, and in 2023, he defeated the challenge of Dang Yifei Jiuduan in two straight games and achieved two consecutive championships. In this Tianyuan battle, he launched an attack on Tianyuan's three consecutive championships.
After Lian Xiao won the title of Tianyuan in 2017, he successively repelled the challenges of Xie Ke's ninth dan and Fan Yunruo's eighth dan to achieve three consecutive championships. In 2020, he lost to the challenger Yang Dingxin Jiudan in the decisive battle, and after four years, he returned to the final of the Tianyuan War and participated in the decisive battle of the Tianyuan War for the fifth time.
In the first game of the final on April 14, Qi Yuting won the black middle game, and was only one step away from successfully defending his title. After a day of truce, the two played the second game today, Lian Xiao Zhihei started with a small eye and a worry-free angle, and Qi Yuting rushed on the upper right side of the four-way shoulder, and laid down the appearance on the top. Black enters early, white attacks in six ways, and then makes a tough move, trying to forcibly block the number of black pieces.
After the black block chess was sealed, Qi Yuting directly entered the second road, and there was a great tendency to destroy this eclipse. After a handover, the black pieces not only came out on top, but also retained the follow-up means of robbing the number of white pieces on the side, and the winning rate rose to more than 90%. At this time, less than 60 lots were carried out.
The battle shifted to the lower left corner, and Lian Xiao did not accept it when he saw it, but took the initiative to attack and break the white chess pieces to fight, and the momentum was in full swing. White was too thin to be killed, and black survived without moving.
The disadvantaged Qi Yuting released the winner and loser in the lower right corner, and the black concede did not damage the advantageous position, but he resolutely chose to be tough, and actually put the white chess into the black chess on the lower board to form a confrontation. As a result of the battle, the two sides formed a transition, and although white plucked the flower from the outside, he gained a lot, but black was able to set the pattern first, simplify the situation, and then start the great catastrophe that had been put on hold for a long time on the upper board. This catastrophe is repeated, and the already pessimistic situation of white chess is even worse.
What was very unfavorable to Qi Yuting was that the white chess was also lacking in the overall robbery, so he had to watch the black chess eliminate the robbery. All white gained was to break some black voids in the lower board, and the black pieces did not hurt the bones. When white wanted to further bully black, Lian Xiao unexpectedly chose to fight back. Although there is a suspicion of nothing to do, it is also full of courage and courage.
It turned out that Lian Xiao had already calculated, and there was nothing he could do about it if he was as tenacious as Qi Yuting, and he was also taken the lead by black chess to occupy the big game, and white was completely desperate. to 207 hands, Qi Yuting admitted defeat in the middle game.
The two sides will play the final game tomorrow (April 17). In the 38 years of the Tian Yuan War, there are only a handful of people who have returned to the finals after losing the Tian Yuan position. In 1994, Ma Xiaochun Jiuduan was successfully restored in the Tianyuan War, and in the next 30 years, the Tianyuan War never regained the former champion and restored the position. If Lian Xiao wins two consecutive games to challenge him, he will rewrite a major record of 30 years of Tianyuan War without restoration. On the contrary, if Yu Yuting wins, he will be another three-time champion after Lian Xiao.