Original title: Dream Lily Cup semi-finals: Xie Ke defeats Fan Tingyu Mi Yuting wins Xu Jiayang
On December 31st, Beijing time, the 4th Dream Lily Cup World Go Open began the semi-final competition for triple play. In the first game of today’s triple play, the post-00 player Xie Ke beat the 24-year-old Ying’s Cup champion Fan Tingyu in the middle of the game, and the 24-year-old Mi Yuting, the first Dream Lily Cup champion, beat the 1999-born Xu Jiayang in the middle of the game.
Fan Tingyu became the youngest world champion in the history of Chinese Go after winning the Ying’s Cup in 2013. At the 20th Nongshim Cup last year, Fan Tingyu played a miracle of seven consecutive victories as the pioneer of the Chinese team. In September this year, the teenager Xie Ke knocked out Ke Jie in the quarter-finals of the Ying’s Cup. In 2017, Xie Ke reached the third semi-finals of the Dream Lily Cup. At that time, he lost 1-2 to the first brother of South Korea. Park Tinghuan failed to qualify for the finals. In this year’s Meng Lily Cup quarter-finals, Xie Ke eliminated Japan’s Yili Liao, Fan Tingyu defeated Ke Jie, who was in poor condition.
In the first game between Xie Ke and Fan Tingyu, Fan Tingyu took the black first after guessing before the game. During the layout stage, Fan Tingyu’s pace was a little better, entering the mid-game fierce battle, Fan Tingyu gained something from the battle in the lower left corner. After that, Xie Ke launched a challenge in the middle abdomen. Fan Tingyu’s 129th move hit the right side, which was regarded as a slow move. Xie Ke made a calculation error and made the situation quite passive, but Fan Tingyu failed to grasp the opportunity. Xie Ke robbed and found the opportunity to switch and finally won the game.
Mi Yuting was the champion of the first Dream Lily Cup. This time, Mi Yuting won Wu Zitian, Yin Canxi (South Korea) and Shen Caiyuan (South Korea) in the qualifiers of the Dream Lily Cup. In this round, he won Zhou Hongyu and Tao Xinran in the top 32. The round of 16 defeated Bian Xiangyi (Korea), and the day before yesterday’s quarter-final match Mi Yuting eliminated Xie Erhao. Xu Jiayang, born in 1999, won Chen Yichun, Niu Shite (Taiwan), Zhang Yabo and Han Shengzhou (Korea) in the qualifiers of the Dream Lily Cup. In this tournament, the top 64 beat Yang Yi, the top 32 beat Wang Yuanjun (Taiwan), and the top 16 beat Tong Mengcheng. The day before yesterday, Xu Jiayang defeated the 33-year-old veteran Meng Tailing in the quarterfinals.
The game was relatively stalemate from start to finish, and Xu Jiayang, who was in black at the last moment, failed to grasp the final chance to give it a go. In the end, Xu Jiayang saw that the disk was not enough, and he accepted the mid-cap. According to the schedule, there will be a day off on New Year’s Day tomorrow. On December 2, the second game of the two pairs of chess players will continue, and CCTV-5 will broadcast the game live.
In addition, two days ago, the Korea Chess Academy selected various Go awards this year. Shen Zhenzhen won the Best Chess Player Award (MVP) at the 2020 Go Grand Awards with a total of 88.95% of the votes. Shen Zhenzhen also won the Multi-Win Award (76 wins and 10 losses), Win Rate Award (88.37%), and Streak Award. (28 consecutive victories) and popularity award. Liu Changhe’s 9th dan won the veteran chess champion, and Cui Jing won the female chess champion for four consecutive years. (Red)Return to Sohu to see more
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