The territory of China's treasure island Go in 2020 was spliced together with the finale of the 13th Chess King Tournament on December 24, and Xu Haofeng, born in 2001, rose rapidly, winning the four crowns of chess king, ten dan, national hand and zhonghuan. In addition, the newly founded celebrity battle returned to Lin Juntan, the United Power Cup was Lai Junfu, the fast chess tournament belonged to Wang Yuanjun, and Lai Junfu and Wang Yuanjun were respectively crowned Haifeng Cup and Tianyuan Tournament. In terms of women, the strongest battle flower fell to Yu Lijun, and the female celebrity was picked up by Yang Zixuan. Li Wei won the Rookie King Championship. If it were not for the devil's schedule at the end of the year, Xu Haofeng's achievements in 2020 might not be more than that.
In the world chess world affected by the epidemic and other factors, the game has been reduced, the Taiwanese Go community has worked hard and added three new tournaments on the basis of maintaining the existing scale. Because the Taiwan Go tournament mostly adopts the round-robin circle after the seven-time challenge system, and the five tournaments are finalized at the end of the year, Xu Haofeng, who has excellent results, has entered the final stage, and at the same time, he also played in the Chinese Go League, making him play eighteen official matches in the twenty-six days from November 26 to December 21, which is a shocking record, and in 2020, when Go competitions are scarce, it is even more unique.
The first winner of the 2020 Taiwan chess industry is the 12th Haifeng Cup, which is an event funded by haifeng chess academy. As an important town in Taiwan's Go industry, Haifeng Chess Academy is named after the super-first-class chess player Lin Haifeng, Lin Haifeng's relative Lin Wenbo provides financial support, and Lin Haifeng's son Lin Minhao serves as the president. The competition was the first large-scale qualifier since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and it was the first to propose the disinfection of the venue, the measurement of body temperature, and the prohibition of participation in excess of the standard. Xu Lost to Lin Shuyang in the Round of 16 in March, with Lin Juntan, born in 1997, and Lai Junfu, born in 2002, reaching the final. The three final wins and losses ended on March 30, and Lai Junfu won the first crown of his life in two consecutive cities, and the championship prize was NT$600,000 (about 140,000 yuan).
Using a double-elimination match to determine challenger Lin Lixiang, the 10th Youshi Cup 10-dan battle ended on May 18, Xu Haofeng defeated Lin Lixiang 3-1 to achieve a three-consecutive championship, and the championship prize was NT$700,000 (about 160,000 yuan).
After seven rounds of round-robin round robins, Wang Yuanjun won the challenge and won the challenge on May 26, 4-0 clean sheets against Tian Yuanlin Juntan, winning the championship for the fifth time, winning the prize money of NT$1 million (about 230,000 yuan).
On July 2, 1998, Li Wei, born in 1998, defeated Chen Qirui, born in 2000, 2-1 in the three-win final to win the Rookie King's Championship. The Newcomer King Tournament is sponsored by Wang Yuhui's Founding of Aiqi Dao, and the format of the tournament is that professional chess players under the age of 25 are pre-selected to produce sixteen players, divided into two groups for a circular circle, and the two groups of top three winners and loses. Yang Zixuan and Yu Li are two female chess players in the circular circle, which is a fairly difficult record. The winner's prize is NT$200,000 (about 46,000 RMB).
On August 21, the 6th Women's Go Championship, which was named "Jianqiao Cup" for the first time and collided with the "Jianqiao Cup" of the China Women's Open, came to an end. Four-time champion Hei Jiajia was tragically "double killed" by Lu Yuhua in the format of double defeat and elimination, and in the final Yu Li defeated Lu Yuhua for the second time to be crowned, and the champion prize was NT$400,000 (about 90,000 yuan).
On September 18, after the 3rd Omori Cup Women's Celebrity Battle was eliminated to produce finalists, Yang Zixuan defeated Bai Xinhui to win the first crown of her career, and the championship prize was NT$150,000 (about 35,000 yuan). Hei Jiajia did not participate in this competition.
Sponsored by UMC Electronics Co., Ltd., the format of the new competition UMC Cup is completely similar to the Tianyuan Competition, starting in the preliminary round in May, Xu Haofeng accidentally appeared and lost to Niu, and Niu, who is the same age as Xu Haofeng, continued to work hard to enter the round robin, and the top two wang yuan in the loop circle and Lai Junfu competed for the championship after seven wins and losses. Born in 1996, Wang Yuanjun, who once had the first appearance of Taiwanese Go, is now also suffering from the impact of his descendants, and on November 6, Lai Junfu defeated Wang Yuanjun 4-2 and won the NT$1 million championship prize in the United Electricity Cup.
In 2020, Haifeng Chess Academy launched the Celebrity Championship Tournament, with a championship prize of up to NT$1.8 million (about 420,000 yuan), the highest number of chess battles in Taiwan. The tournament commemorates Lin Wenbo winning the inaugural celebrity nearly half a century ago, investing the prize money from the chess tournament into entrepreneurship and returning to the Go community. The first time amateur chess players were invited to participate, the newly married Yan'er's Zhan Yidian 7 Duan Li Ke Chen Feng five dan reached the top 16. At the opening ceremony, the organizers invited the world's previous Taiwan Celebrity Champions to take a group photo together, which is extremely rare in the Taiwanese Go community.
From left, Zhou Junxun, Peng Jinghua, Chen Shi, Lin Wenbo, Chen Changqing, Chen Guoxing, lin Shengxian. Among them, Chen Changqing, Chen Guoxing, Peng Jinghua, etc. are all representatives of Chinese Taipei at the beginning of the founding of the World Series, and they have not appeared in public for many years. Unfortunately, Zhou Xianheng, who could have been among them, passed away in 2019.
In 2020, Hei Jiajia, who participated in the acting industry and attended the award ceremony of the film festival and participated in the film awards, only participated in the ten dan battle, the women's strongest battle and the celebrity competition.
After the qualifying round, preliminary round, this tournament and the semi-finals of the three wins and losses, Lin Juntan and Xu Haoxun reached the seven-time final of the 1st Celebrity Championship. The final was held precisely at the end of the year during the intensive time slot of Xu Haofeng's schedule, with Lin Juntan, who was waiting for work, to get the match point 3-1 in advance, and Xu Haofeng won back a point in the fifth set, but in the sixth set, Lin Junchen completely broke off his opponent with a mid-set victory, preventing the young Xu Haoxun from winning the most valuable championship title.
However, Xu Haofeng's revenge battle soon arrived, and the 8th Central Qiao Shengsheng Tournament hosted by the Taiwan Chess Academy, Xu Haofeng and Lin Juntan won all the way in the upper and lower half of the district, and both passed five levels in a row and met in the final of the three wins and losses. The first inning of the final was also played during the final of the Celebrity Championship, and in the second round, Xu Haofeng had already relieved his burden, and by December 18, he defeated Lin Junyan 2-1, winning the championship prize of NT$400,000 while achieving the second consecutive championship.
Three days before winning the Battle of Theaurus, on December 15, Hsu also defeated Chen Qirui's challenge 3-1 in the 16th National Hand Battle, also achieving a second consecutive championship and winning a championship prize of NT$500,000 (about 116,000 yuan).
The new UMC Cup Quick Chess Tournament, also sponsored by UMC, also ended in December, with the tournament played in the evening from the Quarterfinals. Zhou Junxun, the "red-faced chess king" who has not participated in an official competition in the past three years, has made a comeback and reached the quarterfinals, which is really amazing. In the semifinals, Xu Haofeng was trapped by the devil's schedule and lost to Lin Juntan, while Wang Yuanjun defeated newcomer Wang Liwei. The three final wins and losses ended on December 19, and Wang Yuanjun won two consecutive half-eyes to keep a clean sheet Lin Juntan, and won the championship prize of NT$600,000 (about 140,000 yuan).
The final battle in the Taiwan Go industry in 2020 is the 13th Chess King Tournament hosted by Haifeng Chess Academy. The winner of the Chess Championship has a prize of NT$1.2 million (about 280,000 yuan), which was the first chess game in Baodao before the birth of the Celebrity Championship, and the championship was in the hands of Wang Yuanjun. This year's Chess Championship first set a new record for Xu Jingen to enter the circle of loop at the age of 13, and Xu Haofeng swept the circle of champions with the momentum of seven victories to win the right to challenge. The seventh round of the challenge was planned to be played on December 31, the last day of the year, but the fifth game ended early on December 24, and Xu Haofeng defeated Wang Yuanjun 4-1 and was crowned the king of chess.
In 2020, Xu Haofeng showed his glory on the world stage, defeating Chinese and Korean celebrities including Shi Yue, Chen Yaoye, Bian Xiangyi, etc., to reach the top eight of the Chunlan Cup and Ying's Cup, thus rising to the seventh stage, and will meet Ke Jie in the Chunlan Cup Quarterfinals in January 2021.
In addition, in 2020, there are also fresh blood in the Taiwan Go community, Zhang Tingwei, born in 2003, Li Hanxiao, born in 2006, from the social group dingduan, Lin Hanzhang, born in 2004, and Sun Weixun born in 2005.
In 2020, Baodao Chess Launch launched the theme folders of Xu Haofeng and Yu Lijun.
Attached: List of Xu Haofeng's devil's schedule at the end of the year
November 14 UMC Cup Quick Chess Quarterfinals defeated Siu Zheng-ho
November 16 The first set of the Celebrity Finals lost to Lin Juntan
November 19 The second game of the Final of the Celebrity Tournament won against Lin Juntan
November 23 The third set of the Celebrity Final lost to Lin Juntan
November 26 The fourth set of the Celebrity Final lost to Lin Juntan
November 27 The first set of the national hand match final lost to Chen Qirui
November 28 UMC Cup Quick Chess Semifinals lost to Lin Juntan
November 29 The first set of the final of the Qisheng Tournament won against Lin Juntan
November 30 The fifth game of the Final of the Masters tournament won against Lin Juntan
December 1 National Hand Match Final Second Set Victory over Chen Qirui
December 3 The sixth set of the Celebrity Tournament final lost to Lin Juntan
December 6 Chinese Go League Defeat Hu Yaoyu
December 8 National Hand Match Final Third Set Victory over Chen Qirui
December 9 Chinese Go League first division victory over Chen Xian
December 10 The first game of the final of the Chess Championship lost to Wang Yuanjun
December 13 The second set of the final of the Shengsheng Tournament lost to Lin Juntan
December 14 The second game of the final of the Chess Championship won against Wang Yuanjun
December 15 National Hand Competition Final Fourth Set Victory over Chen Qirui
December 17 The third game of the final of the Chess King Tournament won Wang Yuanjun
December 18 The third set of the final of the Qisheng Tournament won against Lin Juntan
December 20 Chinese Go League victory over Ding Shixiong
December 21 The fourth game of the final of the Chess Championship won against Wang Yuanjun
December 24 The fifth game of the final of the Chess Championship won against Wang Yuanjun