Since the world Go world staged the Three Kingdoms Of China, Japan and South Korea in 1988, the Korean Go that no one paid attention to in the past has completed a wonderful counterattack, represented by Lee Chang-ho, Cao Xuan-hyun, Liu Chang-hyuk, Lee Sedol and other Heavenly King chess players, which has long occupied the throne of the world's number one Go power, and Chinese Go only ousted Koreans after winning the six major tournaments in 2013.
After several years of wind and fire, the dividends of the Chinese chess world have finally been nibbled. In last year's two World Series, our first person, Ke Jie, relied on Shin Jin-chan's sliding mark in the Samsung Cup final to barely win a World Series Gold Cup, equal south Korea's Shin Jin-chan's LG Cup. But good flowers do not often bloom, this year's four world competitions, with the loss of Yang Dingxin today, Park Tinghuan and Shin Jin-jin will meet the new three-star cup final, in the number of champions South Korea led China 3:1, and finally reversed the decline of eight years. On the contrary, in this beautiful late autumn season, Chinese Go harvest is the cold winter that has arrived in advance.
Reviewing today's Samsung Cup semi-final Yang Dingxin's battle against Shen Zhenchen, it should be said that it is a rare recent match between the two sides, both sides have played a super high level, mainly in three points: First, both of them are very wonderful, there are many unexpected clever hands, the match rate between the selection points and AI is very high, especially Yang Dingxin's white 76 hand off the first touch, which makes Xu Jiayang, who speaks chess, solemnly respected, and Shen Zhenchen's official tricks are also jaw-dropping. Second, there are no major mistakes in the whole, only some minor differences, if you really want to find out if the game is lost, it should be the white 188 hand sticky in the reading of the seconds stage, which is a slow hand and a back hand, missing the last big official of the whole world. Third, the situation between the two sides is very tight, and it is not until more than 200 hands that a significant gap is opened, which shows that the chess strength of the two sides is very close, and they are the world's top chess players.
Shen Zhenchen nine paragraphs
Before the game, I was very much looking forward to Yang Dingxin's ability to turn the tide, but the ending was still in line with my premonitions. The importance of this game is that this defeat is not only yang Dingxin's personal defeat, but also another proof that Chinese Go has been declining all the way since it reached its peak stage in 2013.
I have long asserted that Shen Zhenchen is already the first person in The world today to play Go, which has met with many opposition voices, but the trend of history cannot be changed. Since 2020, Shen Zhenchen has won two championships in the 24th LG Cup and the 13th Chunlan Cup in all seven world competitions, reaching the 9th Ying Cup and the Samsung Cup in the two finals, and in the final of last year's Samsung Cup due to an unexpected sliding, ke Jie was the runner-up, and only the fourth Dream Lily Cup and the 25th LG Cup failed to reach the final. The feat of five finals in the seven major competitions was that Lee Chang-ho had never had in his heyday. In addition, there is a big competition that cannot be missed is the Nongshim Cup, and Xiao Shenhao won five consecutive victories to win the cup for the Korean team.
And our Ke Jie, lying on the merit book of the Eight Crowns, played live broadcasting, became an Internet celebrity, and by the way, he also had to get a diploma from Tsinghua University. So what about his record at the World Series in the last two years? Last year's Samsung Cup final was won by Shin Jin-chan's slider, and the LG Cup final at the beginning of this year was unexpectedly defeated by Maicheng, and he never got a ticket to perform on the stage of the final. This championship and one-asia results, compared with Shin Zhenchen's two championships, one asian and two finals, are obviously small and big. It goes without saying who is currently the world's first person. In addition, this year's Samsung Cup Ke Jie's round of travel means that his decline has not stopped. The master who replaced him has not appeared at present.
Yang Dingxin Nine Duan
In terms of achievements, no one in China can compete with Shin Jin-chan; on stability, no one in the Go world can compete with Shin Jin-chan and Park Ting-huan. One is a zero-zero post-general, and the other is a 28-year-old veteran, and the combination is perfect. In contrast, in the Chinese chess world, there are 28-year-old people, such as Tang Weixing, who lost to Shen Zhenchen in the final of the Chunlan Cup; there are 24- and 5-year-olds who play at the age of Bo Er rabbit, such as Ke Jie and Boss Fan; and there are young people who enter universities, such as Ding Hao. In this way, the gap between the Chinese and Korean chess circles will not be a little.
Looking at the Chinese chess players born before 2005, except for Ke Jie two years ago, they have not yet found a good player who can compete with Shen Zhenchen. Some people assert that the once raging Korean Wave has been restored, and Shin Jin-chan will monopolize the chess world for 8-10 years in the future.
Obviously, Chinese Go needs to be rethinked and needs to tap new seedlings. But we don't have to be too sad, after all, the trend of history is always repeated and tortuous, and it is not normal to always make a country dominant. If China, Japan, and south Korea take turns to "govern" as bosses, and even other countries outside the region take the lead, this is a good thing for the United States and a great fortune for Go. Only in this way can the world of Go blossom and flourish.