The first round of the 8th Fujitsu Cup consisted of eight sets of matches, five sets were previously recommended, and the remaining three sets were relatively low in attention, so let's put them together to make a brief introduction.
The first round of the 8th Fujitsu Cup
Black: Guo Juan 5 dan
White: Zhang Xiuying Nine dan
Black paste 5 1/2 mesh
A total of 264 lots
White 32 eyes half wins
Date of the match: 1 April 1995
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Born in 1952, South Korean chess player Jang So-young is a chess player of the same generation as Cho Hwan-hyun and Seo Bong-so, and was promoted to dan in 1971 and ninth dan in 1992. In the Korean chess industry, Zhang Xiuying has long been at the top of the list, but the impact on the top chess players is insufficient. As the leader of the "Challenge Top Five", he repeatedly attacked Cho Hwang-hyun's title, without exception ending in zero wins. In 1989, Jang So-young eliminated Liu Chang-hyuk and bravely reached the final of the first Toyo Securities Cup, but was reversed by Liang Zaihao 3-1 in the case of five wins and losses.
With the rise of Lee Chang-ho and Yoo Chang-hyuk, Jang So-young was gradually marginalized in the Korean chess world, and the Fujitsu Cup was not played for the first time until the eighth edition. In the first round of the draw, Zhang Xiuying had good luck and drew the European representative Guo Juan.
Kuo is also participating in the Fujitsu Cup for the first time, becoming the third female player in the history of the Fujitsu Cup to compete in this tournament. Born in 1960, Guo Juan entered the Sichuan Provincial Training Team at the age of 17, and was designated as a fourth dan in 1982 and promoted to five dan the following year. Guo Juan had a good record in China, winning the sixth place in the women's national individual competition in 1981 and 1982. In 1990, Guo moved to the Netherlands, became a Dutch citizen in 1994, and qualified for the Fujitsu Cup as a European champion the following year.
Although Guo Juan has the ambition of winning the Fujitsu Cup for a European chess player, she is still unable to face the Korean stalwart and have been estranged from the professional chess world for a long time. In the end, Zhang Xiuying won with 32 and a half eyes and broke into the second round.
European players are still struggling to win in the Fujitsu Cup.
Zhang Xiuying played against female player Xu Ruiying
Guo Juan
Black: Wang Senfeng 6 paragraphs
White: Cha Min-so four-dan
A total of 154 lots
White wins in the middle of the game
In the first round of the 7th Fujitsu Cup, North American representative McReymond and South American representative Achiruer met in a narrow way, staging the first PK of Western chess players in the professional Go World Series. A year later, south Andean representatives from North America met again in the first round of the Fujitsu Cup, but the candidates were replaced by Cha Minsu and Wang Senfeng.
The best performers in Europe and the United States at the World Series are North American chess players because they have two professional masters, McReamount and Cha Min-so. Cha Min-so exploded in the second and third Fujitsu Cups, reaching the quarterfinals in a row, eliminating three strong men, Hiroshi Yamashiro, Shuzo Daihei, and Cho Ji-hoon, shocking the world chess world. In the next four Fujitsu Cups, the North American representative quota was won by McRemont, who also reached the quarterfinals. In the eighth Fujitsu Cup, Cha Minsu made a comeback and vowed to create another miracle, and the first round draw to South American representatives was the weakest opponent he faced in the Fujitsu Cup.
Wang Senfeng is an amateur chess player, and the specific information lao Xiao has not yet been implemented. He was a top player in South America and repeatedly qualified for the Fujitsu Cup. In the first round of the fourth edition, he lost to Peng Jinghua, a representative of Taiwan, and in the first round of the sixth edition, he lost to another Taiwanese chess player, Lin Shengxian, and his competitiveness was indeed relatively weak.
There is no suspense in this north-south Confrontation, and the fierce gambling king Cha Min-so won the 154-hand slaughter of dragons, easily advanced, and won the Fujitsu Cup three times.
Gambling king Cha Min-so
Black: Liang Zaihao Eight Dan
White: Hideki Komatsu Eight Dan
A total of 289 lots
White 3 eyes and a half win
The first round of the 8th Fujitsu Cup had two Japan-Korea battles, and the top match between the two sides was the japanese new chess piece Saint Kobayashi Kyaw Hanmo defeating the Korean king Seo Bong-so, and the other was a battle of backbone, by Hideki Komatsu vs. South Korea's Liang Jae-ho.
Liang Zaihao is an old acquaintance of the Fujitsu Cup, he has played four times before, the third elimination of Ishida Yoshio, the sixth elimination of Lin Haifeng, the performance is not bad. After the formation of the four kings of South Korea, Liang Jae-ho is regarded as the fifth person in the Korean chess industry, and he has won the first Toyo Securities Cup championship, and he is looking forward to a breakthrough in the Fujitsu Cup.
Hideki Komatsu is participating in the Fujitsu Cup for the first time, but he is not smallly famous, and Chinese chess fans are no strangers to him. Born in 1967, Hideki Komatsu was once regarded as the star of hope in Japanese Go, once on a par with Noriki Ieda. Komatsu won the rookie Wang Zhan and the Rookie Knockout Tournament, and in 1994 he won the championship by defeating Zhao Zhixun in the final of the NEC Quick Chess Tournament. He has competed in the 6th to 8th Sino-Japanese Ring matches, defeating Liu Jing, Wu Zhaoyi, Chen Linxin and Ma Xiaochun.
This is not the first time the two have met, in the first round of the fifth Toyo Securities Cup in 1993, Hideki Komatsu defeated Liang Zaihao. This time, it was still Hideki Komatsu who played better, winning 3 and a half eyes and winning the Fujitsu Cup.
Hideki Komatsu competed in the Samsung Cup
Liang Zaihao
In the first round of the 8th Fujitsu Cup, Chinese chess players performed well and won all three games. Japanese players won two wins and two losses, Korean players won two wins and three losses, North American players won one, and Taiwan, South America and Europe lost one. In the Sino-Japanese war 2-0, the Sino-Japanese (mainland) Korean war 1-0, the Japan-South Korean war 2-0, the Two-Row South Koreans did not make a good start, and the Chinese army was ambitious.
There are 5 Chinese players, 6 Japanese players, 4 Korean players and 1 North American chess player who play in the second round of 16. How will the top eight places be allocated?