[Epoch Times, May 23, 2022](Hong Kong Epoch Times Ye Chengyun Comprehensive Report) On May 22, the opening match of the “2022 HOBAN Cup Seoul News World Women’s Go Championship” was held online. China’s Wu Yiming defeated Japan’s Zhongyi Jin 2nd dan in the middle set and got a good start. The next day, Wu Yiming will accept the first stage attack of South Korean pioneer Li Sezhu.
China’s 16-year-old Wu Yiming and Japan’s 13-year-old Zhong Yijin are regarded as the stars of hope in the Go world between China and Japan. The confrontation between the two can be described as a direct “dialogue” between the future leaders of women’s Go between the two countries. In the 2019 “China-Japan Women’s Go Supernova Invitational Tournament”, Wu Yiming defeated Zhong Yijin 2:0. This time the two fought again, and Wu Yiming had more psychological advantages.
In this game, after guessing first, Zhong Yijin took the black first. In the layout stage, the two faced each other early in the upper left corner and fought together. White’s 60th hand leaned on the weakness of Black’s chess shape, breaking Black’s eye position, making Black’s chess passive, and had to consider his own safety in battle.
In the mid-game stage, although Zhong Yijin stubbornly grabbed the middle number of White’s chess pieces and stabilized his position, however, Black’s chess itself was still not stable, and the situation was not optimistic. After that, White made 132 moves of “Three · Three” and searched for the empty space in the lower right corner of Black, forcing Black to win only by making a profit in attacking White.
However, Zhongyijin entered the countdown at this time and had no time to make calculations. In the hasty attack on White, several black stones were captured by White. Zhongyi Jin had no intention of fighting so far, and when the game reached 162 moves to White, he conceded defeat in the middle game (with chess score).
The Chinese team won the battle between China and Japan, and Wu Yiming will continue to fight. On May 23, South Korean pioneer Li Sezhu will go on the field to fight against Wu Yiming. The two have never met before.
This tournament is sponsored by the Korea HOBAN Group, and co-hosted by the Seoul News Agency and the Korea Chess Institute. Using the Korean Go rules, the black square sticks to 6.5 meshes, and the basic time for each side is 1 hour. When counting the seconds, one move is made within one minute.
The team champion of the cup will receive 100 million won (about 78,000 US dollars) in prize money, and the runner-up and third runner-up will receive no prize money. The fee for each game is 1.2 million won (about 937 US dollars), and the individual three-game winning streak will receive a 2 million won (about 1,560 US dollars) winning streak bonus, and each additional game after that will receive an additional 2 million won bonus. .
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