Special correspondent Guca reported that on July 17, the opening ceremony of the fourth "Wu Qingyuan Cup" World Women's Go Tournament was held at the Rongqiao Sedberg School in Changle District, Fuzhou, and attended by Lin Jianchao, chairman of the China Weiqi Association, Nie Weiping, secretary of the party group of the Fuzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, and 9 Chinese mainland players participating in the competition.
This year's Wu Qingyuan Cup has a total of 24 chess players from all over the world, and a total of 16 players participated in the first round of the competition, including 3 Chinese chess players. In the lottery ceremony held in the afternoon of the same day, Lu Minquan's sixth dan, Fang Ruoxi's fourth dan and Li Xinyi's three dan participated in the lottery, and Taiwanese chess players and foreign players could not come to the scene due to the epidemic situation, and their signatures were drawn by the staff.
As a result of the draw, three Chinese mainland players played against: Lu Minquan 6 dan vs Xie Yimin 6 dan (Japanese), Fang Ruoxi 4 dan vs Yin Mingchu duan (Us), Li Xinyi 3 dan vs Mannola 3 dan (De), other matches: Hei Jia Jia 7 dan (Taiwan) vs Cao Chengya 3 dan (Han), Zhongyi 2 dan (Japanese) vs Jin Caiying 6 dan (Han), Suzuki Bu 7 dan (Japanese) vs Fengyun 9 dan (Us), Wu Youzhen 7 dan (Han) vs Natalia 5 dan (Russia), Ueno Ai Yumi 4 dan (Japanese) VS Lu Yuhua 3rd Dan (Taiwan).
The last champions and runners-up, Including Zhou Hongyu 6 Dan, Yu Zhiying 6 Dan, Rui Naiwei 9 Dan, Li He 5 Dan, Wang Chenxing 5 Dan, Tang Jiawen 4 Dan, Cui Jing 9 Dan and Fujisawa Li Cai 4 Dan, were bye in the first round.
At the opening ceremony held that evening, the leaders and guests present were: Lin Jianchao, chairman of the China Weiqi Association, Wang Runan, former chairman of the China Weiqi Association, Nie Weiping, vice chairman of the China Weiqi Association and chess saint, Hua Yigang, former vice chairman of the China Weiqi Association, Chang Hao, vice chairman of the China Weiqi Association, Hua Xueming, vice chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association and leader of the Chinese national Weiqi team, Yu Bin, head coach of the Chinese national Weiqi team, Dai Binhui, chairman of the Fujian Weiqi Association, Chen Zhukai, secretary of the party group of the Fuzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, and Zhang Xuan, the world champion of women's Weiqi. Huang Yi, member of the party group and deputy director of the Fuzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, Chen Hangxing, deputy governor of the People's Government of Fuzhou Changle District, Yu Min, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Fujian Strait Bank, and Lin Xin, principal of Rongqiao Sedbergh School.
Lin Jianchao, chairman of the China Weiqi Association, praised the Wu Qingyuan Cup, which played five important roles: "First, it has successfully attracted the attention of women's Go to people around the world who love to know Go and those who don't know much about Go. This tournament has become a central women's Go tournament in the world today; second, it has successfully promoted the promotion and hosting of various types of domestic and international women's Go competitions. In recent years, a number of new tournaments have been added to the Chinese women's chess scene, all of which were largely inspired by the Wu Qingyuan Cup World Women's Go Tournament. ”
"Third, it has managed to become the city's golden calling card. We have seen that the World Heritage Conference, which began yesterday, has made this event one of its representative contents, adding color to the city and glorifying the country; fourth, it has promoted the popularity of Go in the city and elsewhere. We saw that the women's Go salon that first appeared here was getting better and better, more representative, and they were going to perform for us today. Such outstanding women, they are now also integrated into the women's Go sport, which is a new thing and new trend in the popularization and development of women's Go in society; fifth, the high technical content embodied in this competition makes the combination of Go and contemporary artificial intelligence have a new model. When the epidemic spread last year, our two competitions showed everyone what is called the artificial intelligence Go game under huawei's 5G technology. This year, they continued to play this advantage, while conducting Huawei's 5G technology support go competition in many countries and places, and at the same time held the World Artificial Intelligence Go Competition with the largest number of participating teams so far, from these two competitions, they saw the new face of Go in the intelligent development of network data. ”
The first stage of the Wu Qingyuan Cup was held in three rounds, with the match days being July 18, 19 and 20, and the final four were decided, and each round of competition began at 12 noon on the same day. The first three winners of the competition were South Korea's Jin Caiying 6 dan, South Korea's Choi Seung 9 dan, and China's Zhou Hongyu 6 dan, and the prize money for the champion and runner-up was 500,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan respectively.