In the first round of the Samsung Cup, Ke Jie was out. Photo: Chinese Go Association
Beijing News (chief reporter Sun Haiguang) On October 21, the first round of the 26th Samsung Cup World Go Masters Tournament was played online in the round of 32, and the defending champion Ke Jie Jiudan was half-eyed and lost to South Korean chess player Kim Ji-seok Jiudan. In the round of 16, Chinese chess players occupy 8 seats, South Korea occupies 7 seats, and Japan wins 1 seat.
Ke Jie, the first Person to score Chinese Go rankings, is the defending champion of this year's Samsung Cup, and he won 2-0 last year to become the youngest Chinese Go champion. In the first round of the competition, Ke Jie led the black to meet the South Korean world champion Kim Ji-seok Jiudan, and the two had a previous record of 7 wins and 7 losses. The most recent meeting between the two was in the first round of last year's Ying's Cup, when Ke Jie did not remember to win against Kim Ji-seok.
The game was full of twists and turns, with Kim Ji-seok dominating most of the first 150 hands, but Ko Jie then caught up. In the 193rd hand, Ke Jie walked out of defeat and fell into the downwind. At the official stage, both of them made some mistakes, but Ke Jie's black chess was always unable to save the situation, and finally lost to 250 hands and half eyes, stopping the first round.
In several other matches, Peng Liyao beat South Korean chess player Yoon Chan-hee with only 84 hands. Fan Tingyu and Xie Ke defeated Xu Jiayuan and Wei Xuanzhun respectively to advance to the round of 16. Lee Wei-ching, a post-00 chess player who has just been promoted to nine dan, is defeated by park Ting-hwan, the former south Korean first man. At this point, the first round of this Samsung Cup has ended, with Chinese players occupying 8 seats in the top 16, and Korean and Japanese chess players occupying 7 and 1 seat respectively.
Yang Dingxin will play Kim Ji-seok in the next round. Photo: Chinese Go Association
Immediately after the first round of matches, a draw ceremony for the Round of 16 took place. Kim Ji-seok Jiudan, who has just eliminated Ke Jie, will play against Yang Dingxin Jiudan, and the only remaining Japanese chess player in the round of 16, Keigo Yamashita, will face Chinese chess player Zhao Chenyu. The South Korean rank was divided into the first man Shin Jin-jin nine dan against Fan Tingyu nine dan, and the former Korean first Person Park Tinghuan nine dan against Mi Yu Ting nine dan.
The Samsung Cup is played against the round of 16
Dang Yifei vs Han Shengzhou
Xie Ke vs Lee Dong Hoon
Mi Yu-ting vs Park Young-hwan
Peng Liyao vs Lee Chang-seok
Zhao Chenyu vs Keigo Yamashita
Fan Tingyu vs Shin Jin-chan
Lian Laugh VS An Sung-joon
Yang Dingxin vs Kim Ji-seok
Beijing News reporter Sun Haiguang
Edited by Wang Chunqiu Proofreader Li Lijun