Ke Jie withstood the pressure and defeated his old rival Park Tinghuan. Photo: Hua Xueming
Beijing News (chief reporter Sun Haiguang) The 26th LG Cup World Chess King Championship Quarterfinals ended online today, and Ke Jie Jiu Dan defeated The Korean chess player Park Tinghuan Jiu Dan, who just won the Samsung Cup. After the end of the quarterfinals, Ke Jie, Yang Dingxin, and Mi Yuting all advanced to the top 4, stopping the decline of no one in the previous Samsung Cup entering the final.
This year's LG Cup started online in May, and Chinese chess players occupied 3 of the top 8 seats, namely Ke Jie, Yang Dingxin and Mi Yuting. The focus of the Quarterfinals is the duel between Ke Jie, the first person in the Chinese Go ranking, and Park Tinghuan, the second person in Korean Go. On November 3, 28-year-old Park Young-hwan had just won his fifth career world title by defeating Shin Jin-chan 2-1 in the Samsung Cup final.
Ke Jie fought hard. Screenshot
In the battle with Park Tinghuan, Ke Jie's situation in the first half of the set was not good, and he also entered the reading seconds early in time. However, in the official stage, Ke Jielian made a clever hand to stabilize the situation, and finally won with 210 hands, and also changed the record of the match with Park Tinghuan to 15 wins and 14 losses.
In the other two games, Mi Yuting Jiudan, who won the Dream Lily Cup this year, won the 190-hand victory over South Korean chess player Bian Xiangyi Jiudan. Yang Dingxin Jiudan, in the case of a winning rate that once fell to only 2%, made a big reversal to eliminate the Korean chess player Shin Minjiudan.
Mi Yuting in the match. Photo: Hua Xueming
In the just-concluded Samsung Cup, the performance of Chinese chess players was not satisfactory, Ke Jie was out early, and Yang Dingxin and Zhao Chenyu also stopped in the semi-finals. In the end, the Korean chess player won the final seat again after 14 years, and Park Tinghuan finally won the championship. In the LG Cup Round of 8, all 3 Chinese chess players advanced to the top 4, stopping the recent decline in the World Series.
Yang Dingxin staged a super reversal. Photo: Hua Xueming
According to the LG Cup schedule, the final quarterfinals will be played tomorrow, with South Korean chess player Shin Jin-jin against Japanese chess players.
Beijing News reporter Sun Haiguang
Edited by Wang Chunqiu, proofread by Wu Xingfa