Zhou Junxun 2-1 Hu Yaoyu
The 11th LG Cup, held in 2006, underwent a series of restructurings, eliminating the seeding of uncompetitive European and American (American Weiqi Association, European Weiqi Federation), and the final was changed from the original five-game chess to three-game chess.
The round of 32 in this tournament was assigned as the champion and runner-up of the previous tournament, a total of 14 seeded chess players from various countries, and 16 qualifiers. Among them, there are 13 Chinese chess players (including 2 from Taiwan), 13 Korean players and 6 Players from Japan.
The 11th LG Cup has a long front, spanning a full 9 months from the round of 32 to the top 4. Within 9 months, Zhou Junxun defeated Huang Yizu, Takao Shenlu, Sheikh, and Hong Minyu successively. It was time to go to the final.
Triple chess decider
In March 2007, the 11th LG Cup Final Trifecta was played in Seoul, South Korea, against Hu Yaoyu and Zhou Junxun. This is the first time that a Taiwanese chess player has reached the final of the World Series, the first time that players from both sides of the Taiwan Strait have met in the final of the World Series, and the third consecutive year that a Korean chess player has not entered the finals.
In the first game of sanban, Zhou Junxun played the next city first, but in the second game he lost the winning chess piece, giving Hu Yaoyu a chance to breathe. In the decider, Zhou Junxun narrowly won the half-eye victory and won the LG Cup championship without any danger. This championship not only has great significance for Zhou Junxun personally, but also opened a new chapter in the cause of Go in Taiwan.
Zhou Junxun won the championship
Born in 1980, Zhou Junxun began to contact Go at the age of 6, made a name for himself in the amateur chess world at the age of 11, and became a professional chess player at the age of 14. He is the first professional nine-dan player in Taiwan since the establishment of the professional Go system in 1979, and the first World Champion of Go in Taiwan.
(Gu Yao)