China's first eight-time champion, Gu Li, peaked in 2006-2010, when he won a total of seven gold cups at the World Go Tournament. However, from 2011 to 2014, Gu Li has reached the final of the World Series four times, all of which have suffered defeats, including two losses to Li Shishi, one time to Yuan Shengqin, and one to Mi Yuting. Luck is really backgammon!
As Gu Li will be crowned seven crowns, the 10th Chunlan Cup kicked off on March 26, 2014 in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. Gu Li, who got the quota, did not become a seeded chess player due to his recent record, and he did not become a seeded chess player, and he played in the first round of the round of 24, so can this Chunlan Cup bring good luck to Gu Li, who has long missed the world series laurels?
Gu Li's opponent in the first round is South Korean handsome Kim Young-hyun. From the layout to the mid-plate Guli is the advantage in hand, but then there is a big twist - the upper right is not concise robbery, giving the opponent a chance, fortunately, Kim Tingxian found a small robbery, Gu Li seized this rare opportunity, decisively eliminated the robbery through the crisis, the mid-game victory.
Coulee Nine Duan
Kim Young-hyun is only a stalwart of South Korea, And Coulee's victory doesn't mean much, and in the second round of the Round of 16 on March 28, Gully encountered a lifelong enemy, Lee Sedol. At this time, the Gu Li Juban Chess Battle has been carried out for the first two games, and Gu Li is behind 0:2. Therefore, this round is a major test for Coulee. In hindsight, the battle was thrilling. The two masters who once created the gu li era of the world chess world are all "fighting with each other", and the situation is very sticky. The key middle game fierce battle, the black Gu Li showed an accurate calculation in the left offensive and defensive battle, after taking off the first hand, Li Shishi also failed to kill the black chess dragon, thus being occupied by Gu Li, although Li Shishi chased after the official competition in the back, but seeing that the pattern of small defeats could not be recovered, Li Shishi had no choice but to concede defeat in the middle game.
After crossing the big river of Lee Sedol, Gu Lee met Zhang Xu, the first Japanese man, in the third round of the quarterfinals. The two are old rivals, and have met since 2005, and the historical record is roughly 5 wins and 1 loss of Coulee. Before the game, Zhang Xu had a somewhat mournful posture, he admitted: he only won one set of Guli, and he was the oldest in the quarterfinals, I am afraid that it was the last time to participate, and there was no pressure. Gu Li said: I hope that I can get out of the trough in Hefei. The actual battle of the two masters was very intense. During the mid-abdomen war, Gu Li made a fuss around Zhang Xu's left lone chess piece, not only failed to annihilate the other party, but Zhang Xu, as an expert on dead and alive problems, was also agility in the corner, and Gu Li suddenly lagged behind a lot. Under the advantage, Zhang Xu became shrinking his hands and feet, while Gu Li counterattacked in a big way, and gradually gained the upper hand in the second half of the set, at this time Zhang Xu knocked his head from time to time and sighed, but he had no choice. In the end, after the battle of the officials, Gu Li advanced to the level with the slightest advantage of 1/4.
The fourth round of semi-finals continued on December 27 in Hefei, Anhui Province, where Gu Li's opponent was South Korea's Crown Prince Kim Ji-seok, who had just won the Samsung Cup, which was another sparkling offensive and defensive battle. The previous record of the two sides is Guli 5 wins and 3 losses, slightly ahead. Kim Ji-seok, who was in charge of the black game, played the lower left dragon, and unexpectedly took the upper left field at a critical moment, and the spectators all believed that if Gu Li's white chess could not eat this black chess, the previous attack might be completely frustrated. A good Gu Li, seeing the flaws of the black chess dragon, first a stab, then a paste, followed by a move to break the blow, simply and rudely through the abandonment of the thick periphery, and then raised the dragon slaying knife to kill the black chess dragon to the left, bound to slaughter the dragon to win. In the face of Gu Li's small tip killing move all the way, Jin Zhixi held his cheeks and thought bitterly for a long time, sighed frequently, failed to find a way to live, adjusted his mood for half a day, and finally had no choice but to stop the clock and admit defeat.
The Samsung Cup Kim Ji Seok won
At this point, Gu Li has reached the final of the Chunlan Cup again after eight years, only one step away from his eighth crown. After the game, Gu Li said bluntly: Kim Ji-seok may be a light enemy, Hefei is indeed his own blessed land, and this two-game winning streak has given him great encouragement.
After three months, the first game of the 10th Chunlan Cup final sanban chess was opened on June 1, 2015, and it was Zhou Ruiyang who competed with Gu Li for the championship. The previous record of the two sides is roughly 21 wins and 8 losses of Guli, of which the three chess battles Guli have won, it should be said that Guli is the nemesis of Zhou Sheep. It is reasonable to say that Gu Li has a certain psychological advantage, but before the game, Gu Li said: The results only represent the past, seeing that Zhou Ruiyang has been losing weight for this competition, he has a premonition that the final will be very difficult. But judging from the actual combat process of the first set, Gu Li was completely downwind, almost leading all the way to victory. Some professional masters commented that Guli opened this round from a light handling and actively grabbed the short, and won a complete victory in strategy and tactics, which can be said to be The famous game of Guli. And Zhou Ruiyang didn't seem to play, and he was too restrained.
In the second game of June 3, the two sides fought fiercely, especially the battle in the center, which was extremely fierce, and the two of them came out of a big robbery. The backward Zhou Ruiyang did his best to make the situation complicated, and Gu Li tried to make the situation as simple as possible. However, the subsequent situation is no longer controllable by either side, and the robbery continues to escalate, eventually forming a great transformation like a sea of mulberry fields. Zhou Ruiyang's white chess piece was killed by the great dragon, but the bottom of Guli black chess was eaten back by white chess. The good news is that Gu Li got a valuable first hand, and the central government gained a lot after breaking the white chess piece, and the situation was very favorable. When the victory was close at hand, Gu Li suddenly changed his tune and was robbed of two big officials by the white chess piece, and the situation approached in an instant. When it came to the stage of small officials, the situation was very delicate, and Zhou Ruiyang's officials were very tenacious and pressed step by step, and it was likely to form a situation of half-eye victory and defeat. In the end, luck still sided with Gu li, and although the two sides were slightly different, they were not enough to change the outcome. In the finale, Gu Li zhihei defeated Zhou Ruiyang by a slight advantage of 3/4 of the sons and was crowned the eighth champion.
Chunlan Cup Guli holds the cup
After the game, a reporter asked: From the first round of this Chunlan Cup, which plate is the most difficult?
Gu Li: The game of chess with Lee Sedol is relatively big, it is indeed a situation to lose, and in the end, it is very lucky to survive. There is also the look of losing with Zhang Xu, it should have been said that Zhang Xu was passed, and good luck came.
Gu Li, born in 1983, was more than 32 years old when he won the chunlan Cup championship and was an uncompromising "veteran" in the Go world. He set the highest age for Cho to win the World Go Tournament after Zhao Zhixun reached the top of the Samsung Cup in December 2003, a record that has not yet been broken.
As China's first eight-time champion, Coulee is really good! Writing this, I can't help but think: If Ke Jie can do this, how good it would be! If this is the case, Ke Jie will not only be China's second eight-crowned champion, but also China's first nine-crowned, or even ten-crowned. Hopefully, it's not a dream!