Yang Dingxin took the lead in reaching the final of the LG Cup. Photo: Hua Xueming
Beijing News (chief reporter Sun Haiguang) The 26th LG Cup World Chess Championship ended the first semi-final on November 9, Yang Dingxin Jiudan 162 hands to defeat Mi Yuting Jiudan, the final will wait for the winner between Ke Jie and Shen Zhenchen.
In this year's LG Cup, Chinese chess players changed the previous decline in the Samsung Cup, and the 3 Chinese chess players who advanced to the top 8 all reached the semifinals. According to the schedule, the semi-finals of Yang Dingxin and Mi Yuting took the lead today. The two have met 21 times before, with Yang Dingxin winning 12 and losing 9. In the 20th Southwest Chess Championship this year, Yang Dingxin defeated Mi Yuting to win the championship.
There were not too many twists and turns in the whole game, and Yang Dingxin had the advantage after 60 hands. With 101 hands, Mi Yuting lost again, and Yang Dingxin's white chess winning rate continued to rise. After playing to 162 hands, Mi Yuting announced that he had conceded defeat, and Yang Dingxin had reached the final of the LG Cup again after 2019. In the 23rd LG Cup in 2019, Yang Dingxin defeated Shi Yue in the final 2-1 and won his only world championship so far.
Another semi-final will be played tomorrow morning, and the first Chinese and Korean Go players Ke Jie and Shin Jin-chen will meet directly. If Ke Jie wins, the Chinese chess players will lock in the championship of this year's LG Cup in advance.
In several Go World Championships that ended this year, the performance of Chinese chess players was slightly sluggish. At the beginning of the year, Ke Jie unexpectedly lost to South Korean chess player Shin Min-woo. In the subsequent Nongshim Cup, The first Korean Go player Shin Jin-chan won consecutively against Tang Weixing, Yang Dingxin, Ke Jie and others in the final stage, helping the Korean team to win the cup for the 13th time.
In the past two months, Shin Jin-hyun and Park Young-hwan have won consecutive Chunlan Cup and Samsung Cup, and the last time a South Korean chess player won two consecutive individual World Series titles was back to Baek Hong-mi and Lee Sedol in 2012, when they won the BC Credit Card Cup and the Samsung Cup.
The only World Series winner of the Chinese chess players so far this year comes from the 4th Dream Lily Cup, and Mi Yuting defeated Xie Ke to win the championship.
Sun Haiguang, chief reporter of the Beijing News
Edited by Han Shuangming, Proofreader Li Lijun