China Women's Open Go Tournament Rui Naiwei was out of the cold in the first round

Source: Xinhua Net

Beijing, 27 Sep (Xinhua) -- According to the China Weiqi Association, the 18th Jianqiao Cup China Women's Go Open Tournament kicked off on 27 September at the Tanggong Tea House in Changxing, Zhejiang. Not long ago, veteran Rui Naiwei, who had just won the Mixed Doubles Championship at the National Games, lost to Zhao Guanru in the first round and was eliminated.

Rui Naiwei, 57, is an evergreen tree in the Chinese chess world and the oldest player to participate in this competition. In the Go game of the National Games, she teamed up with Hu Yaoyu to win the mixed doubles gold medal for the Shanghai team. Facing the 24-year-old Zhao Guanru, Rui Naiwei once took the lead. However, she did not walk very concisely in the middle stage, and later made a mistake and died a piece of chess, regrettably losing.

The 53-year-old Zhang Xuan is the only chess player who "full attendance" in the 18th Jianqiao Cup. Zhang Xuan, who was in charge of the white, also started the situation well, but in the middle stage, he was slightly unfamiliar with the method, and finally lost to the defending champion Wang Shuang in the middle set.

The 13-year-old Xu Haizhe is the youngest chess player to enter the tournament, and the youngster who has just finished the 2020 season will pass the qualifiers and enter the tournament. However, facing seeded chess player Zhou Hongyu, she failed to go further.

In the confrontation between the two famous generals Yu Zhiying and Tang Yi, the 23-year-old woman ranked first Yu Zhiying smiled to the end. In addition, the National Games champions Wang Yubo, Wang Chenxing, Gao Xing and others also successfully advanced to the round of 16.

In the round of 16 on the 28th, the most eye-catching will be the "Youth Battle" of Tang Jiawen and Zhou Hongyu, two promising new generation chess players born in 2004 and 2002 respectively.

The tournament is one of the oldest women's title races in the country, having been interrupted only once since its inception due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The prize money for the champions and runners-up of this tournament is 300,000 yuan and 120,000 yuan respectively.

A total of 78 players competed this year, of which 8 players entered the tournament directly as seeds, and the other 24 seats were decided through qualifiers.

Since the beginning of this year, the schedules of various domestic Go tournaments have changed a lot due to the epidemic, and there has been a situation of "overlapping" schedules. The jianqiao cup and the third leg of the Huawei Mobile Phone Cup China Go League were held in Changxing, Zhejiang.