Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 16 (Reporters Wang Jingyu and Wang Haoyu) The 25th World Go Team Championship opened in Beijing on the 16th. The Chinese team, composed of five generals including Gu Zihao and Ke Jie, aims to end the Korean team’s three consecutive championships.
The Nongshim Cup event adopts an arena format in which chess players from the three countries take turns to appear, which is unique in the world chess world. In the last three competitions, Shin Jin-seok 9th Dan ended the competition as the leader of the South Korean team three times, achieving 10 consecutive victories across the competition.
In this competition, Shin Jin-seok was exempted from selection and shortlisted for the Korean team lineup. Park Jung-hwan 9th-dan, Won Sung-chin 9th-dan, and Ha Hyun-jun 8th-dan were selected to participate in the competition. Chunlan Cup champion Byun Sang 19th-dan received a wild card.
The Chinese team’s lineup is also selected through free selection and selection. The five members are Gu Zihao, Ding Hao, Ke Jie, Xie Hao and Zhao Chenyu. The Japanese team’s lineup is composed of chess master Ichiriki Ryo, celebrities Shimono Toramaru, Throne Iyama Yuta, Xu Jiayuan, and Yu Zhengqi.
The head coach of the Chinese team, Yu Bin, said at the pre-match press conference that the Chinese team and the Korean team generally had back and forth in the Nongshim Cup. The Korean team’s recent three championships were related to the strong performances of Park Ting-hwan and Shin Jin-soo. If the Chinese team wants to defeat the Korean team in such an arena competition, it needs to defeat their top players.
Koo Zihao, who lost to Shin Jin-seok in the final game of the last competition, also believed that the reason why the Korean team won consecutive championships was that Shin Jin-seok performed very well and Park Ting-hwan was very stable. “Hopefully we will do well this year,” he said.
Shin Zhenzhen said that the Chinese, Japanese and Korean chess players are all in good condition at present, and he hopes that the Korean chess players will perform better and make it easier for the captain.
The four-set match in the first stage of this competition will be held in Beijing, and the second and third stages will be held in Busan, South Korea and Shanghai, China respectively. In the previous 24 games, the three countries won the championship in order: South Korea 15 times, China 8 times, and Japan 1 time.
In addition, the first Nongshim Baishanshui Cup World Go Veterans Competition will also start in Beijing on the 17th. The competition will also use the Three Kingdoms chess players to compete in the arena, except that each team has four participants, and the age limit for participating players is 1970 Born before January 1st of the year. The Chinese team’s lineup is composed of the famous Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun, Liu Xiaoguang and Cao Dayuan. The Korean team is composed of Cao Xunxuan, Xu Bongzhu, Liu Changhyuk and Choi Gyubing. The Japanese team is composed of Takemiya Masaki, Yida Noriki, Hikosaka Naoto and Yamashiro Hiroshi. .
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2023-10-17 02:40:00
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