Nanjing, 12 Sep (Xinhua) -- The final of the 13th Chunlan Cup World Professional Go Championship will be played online on 13 September, and Chinese chess player Tang Weixing Jiudan will compete with South Korean chess player Shin Jinchen Jiudan for a three-game chess match.
Both Tang Weixing and Shin Jin-hyun are reaching the final of the Chunlan Cup for the first time, and this tournament Tang Weixing has defeated South Korean chess players Shin Min-hoon, Park Yong-hoon and teammate Ke Jie in a row, while Shin Jin-hyun has won three consecutive Chinese chess players, Xu Jiayang, Fan Tingyu and Lian Xiao.
The final is played online in a three-game format. Shin Jin-hyun, who has topped South Korea's Go rankings for 20 consecutive months, is currently the first person in South Korea to win the championship for the Korean team with a wave of five consecutive wins at the Nongshim Cup World Go Team Championship in February this year, but the 21-year-old has only won an individual world championship once so far, and the goal of reaching the final this time is to reach the championship.
In contrast, the older opponent, tang Weixing, who is nearly 7 years old, is inferior in absolute strength, and the recent record of the two is also dominated by Shen Zhenchen. But Tang Weixing has always been jokingly called the "nerve knife" by many chess fans, and regarded it as the "big heart", and he has won the world championship three times before, and twice he defeated the first South Korean at the time (Lee Sedol in 2013 and Park Young-hwan in 2016).
The Chunlan Cup was co-founded by the Chinese Weiqi Association and Chunlan (Group) Company in 1998, and in the previous 12 tournaments, Korean players won the championship six times, Chinese players won five championships, and Japanese players won one championship.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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