On October 26, Beijing time, the quarterfinals of the 26th Samsung Cup ended. Two of the three Chinese players who advanced to the quarterfinals reached the semifinals, with Cho Chen-woo beating South Korea's Lee Dong-hoon and Yang Dingxin beating South Korean chess player Lee Chang-seok. In the match with Park Tinghuan, Lian Xiao was stubbornly overtaken by his opponent at the official stage under the obvious advantage, and by the 306th hand Lian Xiao was defeated by his opponent with two eyes and a half eyes. The Samsung Cup semi-final matchup: 27th is Cho Chen-woo vs Park Ting-hwan; 28th is Yang Dingxin vs Shin Jin-chan.
According to the original match plan of the Samsung Cup, the match between Shin Jin-jin (Han) vs Han Seung-joo (Han) and Lee Chang-seok (Han) vs Yang Dingxin (center) in the quarterfinals should have been played yesterday, but the South Korean side had a large network problem yesterday, and the game was postponed to 12 o'clock, but after the start of the game, it was seriously malfunctioned again, resulting in the inability to continue the game. After consultation between China and South Korea, the two sets of matches were postponed to today to resume, but without re-guessing, it is still Yang Dingxin who is white and Lee Chang-seok is black.
In today's game, Chinese chess player Zhao Chenyu defeated South Korea's Lee Dong-hoon, Shin Jin-chan defeated compatriot Han Seung-joo, and Yang Dingxin defeated South Korea's Lee Chang-seok. The match between Chinese chess players Lian Xiao and Park Tinghuan is the focus of everyone's attention in this round, and the black chess pieces that laugh at the beginning of the game actively seize the field, and Park Tinghuan mainly seizes the external position. Park Ting-hwan's 122nd hand made a mistake in the fierce mid-game battle, and then maintained an advantage of more than 10 meshes on the laughing plate. Park Tinghuan struggled to catch up in the stage, and there were several places where he was more conservative in the case of laughter advantage, and later Park Tinghuan overtook with a slight advantage of half a purpose. Lian Xiao's black chess piece was forced to make trouble in the lower left corner in the hope of an opportunity, but Park Tinghuan responded correctly, and the two fell to the 306th hand Lian Xiao lost with two eyes and a half eyes.
Since then, the Chinese team Zhao Chenyu and Yang Dingxin have advanced to the semi-finals of the Samsung Cup, and the two will face South Korea's Park Tinghuan and Yang Dingxin respectively.
The Samsung Cup was founded in 1996 and held annually, and has a history of 26 years. Japanese players won only the first in 1996 and the 8th in 2003, respectively, by Ita Noriki and Cho Ji-hoon, and the rest of the championships were divided between Chinese and Korean players (South Korea won the championship 12 times and the Chinese team won the championship 10 times). Since Ke Jie won the Samsung Cup in 2015, Chinese chess players have monopolized the championship of this tournament, followed by Ke Jie (2015, 2016, 2018), Gu Zihao (2017), Tang Weixing (2019), Ke Jie (20220), this year's tournament Chinese team will hit the seventh consecutive championship.
According to the publicly announced format, the start time of the Samsung Cup match is 11:00 noon (China time), each side has a 2-hour retention time, and five times one minute to read the second. The prize money is 300 million won for the champion, 100 million won for the runner-up, 50 million won for the top 4, 25 million won for the top 8, 12.5 million won for the top 16, and 5 million won for the top 32.
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