Although the 26th Samsung Cup final, which began today, is not a game for us, it is also a pleasure to enjoy the competition between the two most stable super chess players in the world today.
As the old rule goes, I'll predict the outcome of the Samsung Cup first, which will involve the World of Go to produce a new Triple Crown or a previously blank Five Crowns.
If Shin Jin-hyun wins the title, then he is a crown last year, this year's double crown, the upward trend is very obvious; if Park Tinghuan wins the cup, then he will become the only five crowns, and set a record since 2015 the age of winning the title is the third highest. In June 2015, Gu Li won the 10th Chunlan Cup when he was 32 years old and 4 months old, Chen Yaoye was 29 years old when he won the first Tianfu Cup final in December 2018, and Park Tinghuan, who was born in 1993, is 28 years old this year, and if he wants to win the championship, he is in the top three.
The historical record of the two sides has a total of 46 sets of each other, and Shen Zhenchen has won 26 sets, with a winning rate of 57%. At first, Park Tinghuan was far ahead, but after Shin Jin-chan broke through the cocoon into a butterfly last year, the situation suddenly changed, almost crushing the opponent. Xiao Shen kept a clean sheet in the 24th LG Cup Triple Chess Final and Park Shin Seven Chess Special Chess Battle, with the largest consecutive winning streak reaching a staggering 12 consecutive wins, and the two sides did not seem to be in the same level.
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Judging from the recent stability, both have performed very well, ranking in the top two in the world of Go. But in comparison, Shen Zhenchen, who won 16 consecutive wins in the World Series, is even better, not only winning the Chunlan Cup this year, but also reaching the final of the Ying Cup, counting the final of this three-star cup, theoretically he may become a four-time champion in the short term. Park Has underperformed the World Series since beating Park Yong-hoon to win the 12th Chunlan Cup in June 2019, and this Samsung Cup is the first time he has reached the final in more than two years.
Looking at the trip to the final of this Samsung Cup, Park Tinghuan seems to be bumpy, in the duel with Mi Yuting, Lian Xiao, and Zhao Chenyu, they all rely on the opponent's mistakes to reverse the victory; on the contrary, Shen Zhenchen is almost all the way to the top, easily and almost no resistance to take down Xie Erhao, Fan Tingyu, etc., the only crisis occurred in the semi-finals of yang Dingxin, the second person in the Chinese Go ranking, Yang Dingxin, if it were not for yang Dingxin's fatal defeat at the last moment, there would be no Xiao Shen on the stage of today's Samsung Cup final.
After a lap, I will give an answer: the final champion of this year's Samsung Cup is Shin Jin-chan. So Xiao Shen will jump to the eighth place in the world championship number list, and the seven places ahead of him are: Lee Chang-ho, Lee Se-seok, Cho Hyun-hyun, Gu Li, Ke Jie, Yoo Chang-hyuk, and Park Young-huan. It is expected that in the near future, Park Tinghuan and Liu Chang-hyuk will also be hidden behind Shin Jin-hyun.
What can we learn while watching the Great War of Pu Shen? Personally, I think there can be three aspects: First, there should be no opportunistic thoughts. In addition to talent, concentration and diligence are the only way to gain fame, and there is no other shortcut. Not only do you want to win the laurels of the competition, but also to win a university diploma, but also to open a classroom, be an Internet celebrity, do live broadcasts to get rich, and finally you can only end up in the competition.
Park Young-hwan and Shin Jin-hyun
Second, AI research needs to be deepened, not touched by the skin. Net chess with female chess players and other masters can be put a little bit, you may wish to play more games with the AI. How to understand the essence of AI tricks requires a lot of time and energy to study and discuss. The profundity of Go is that one person cannot understand it all, and collective research is indispensable. The three stinkers have competed with Zhuge Liang, and the collective strength is infinite, but the coaching staff of the Korean team understands this aspect very deeply, and we have always advocated this tradition.
The third is to focus on studying and solving weak links. My opinion is the following three main problems: 1. Poor psychological stress resistance. The classic example is Lian Xiao, who has more than 20 experiences in this tournament, nine times to reach the quarterfinals of the World Series, only one time to reach the final four, and no final experience. It's not just that the skills are inferior to people, but the more important reason is the heart demon. 2, reading seconds is very poor. In the two Sino-Korean matches in the semi-finals of the Samsung Cup, Yang Dingxin and Zhao Chenyu were counterattacked in the process of reading seconds. 3. The level of officials is average. Park Tinghuan's chess style is relatively close to Lee Chang-ho, that is, he has superhuman official skills, so he calls the wind and rain in the world competition, and wins gold and silver. Looking at the current Chinese Go world, which chess player has excellent official skills?
Fortunately, the Chinese Weiqi Association and the national team coaching team have taken action, and we also expect professional masters to echo the shouts of chess fans, regard Go as a pure main business, abandon the active mind and restless mentality, and single-mindedly seek Go.