Ke Jie holds the black mid-game and loses to Shen Zhenzhen Nongshim Cup, South Korea and Japan’s main player Ming competes for the championshipFly into the homes of ordinary people
Ke Jie in competition
The 13th game of the 23rd Nongshim Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament will be played online this afternoon. In the eye-catching battle between the leaders of China and South Korea, Ke Jie won the black 228 and lost to Shen Zhenxuan at the 9th dan. In this way, the Chinese team of this year’s Nongshim Cup will be eliminated ahead of schedule, and the leaders of South Korea and Japan will compete for the championship tomorrow.
The process of this year’s Nongshim Cup was ups and downs. In the first stage, Chinese, Japanese and Korean chess players took turns to attack successfully. In the second stage, Japan’s Iyama Yuta was in outstanding condition and completed a wave of four consecutive victories. The third stage started. Chinese deputy general Mi Yuting attacked Jingshan and knocked out the 9th dan, and forced out the 9th dan of South Korean general Shen Zhenzhen. However, the battle between Mi Yuting and Shen Zhenzhen was finally ruled to be a rematch due to a “timeout failure” in the countdown stage. As a result, Mi Yuting lost to Shen Zhenzhen in the mid-table. After that, Shen Zhenzhen completely defeated the Japanese deputy general Yu Zhengqi, the eighth dan. So far, China, Japan and South Korea have only the main generals left.
After Mi Yuting lost the game, the main general Ke Jie said, “It’s time for me to play.” In the final stage of the 17th Nongshim Cup in 2016, South Korean leader Lee Sedol won the 8th dan of Japanese deputy Daisuke Murakawa, the Chinese deputy 9th dan, and the Japanese leader Iyama Yuta 9th dan, and rushed to the Chinese leader Ke Jie. In the end, Ke Jie captured a strong enemy and won the championship for the Chinese team. In the final battle of the 22nd Nongshim Cup in 2021, Ke Jie, the main general, lost to Shen Zhenzhen, who lifted the championship trophy for the 13th time for the South Korean team. The Chinese team’s hope of winning this competition once again fell to Ke Jie. Before the game, the chess master Nie Weiping encouraged his disciples: “This year’s Nongshim Cup has reached the final critical moment. I hope our main player Ke Jie can withstand the final pressure.”
South Korea’s Shin Jin-seo
Shen Zhenzhen was also well prepared for the battle between the leaders of China and South Korea: “The Nongshim Cup is not a hasty competition, the schedule has been determined long ago, and a lot of preparations have been made before. Now there is one person left in China and Japan, I will do my best. He also said, “Ke Jie has never won two games in the Nongshim Cup, so it should be the same this time.”
In this afternoon’s game, after guessing, Ke Jie will be the black first. However, Ke Jie was not in the state of this game. There was a small mistake in the layout stage, and he entered the middle game. In the battle between the upper right and the upper side, Shen Zhen made a lot of money for White. After that, White completely controlled the situation, and Black failed to find a reversal. chance to concede defeat to 228 hands. South Korea’s Shin Jin-hee won the third straight victory in this year’s Nongshim Cup. In the World Series, this is Ke Jie’s third consecutive defeat in the dialogue with Shen Zhenzhen, following the semi-finals of the previous Nongshim Cup and last year’s LG Cup.
With Ke Jie’s defeat, the Chinese team ended the trip to the Nongshim Cup ahead of schedule and won the third place. The last time the Chinese team was eliminated early in the Nongshim Cup was in the 7th competition 16 years ago. Tomorrow, Shen Zhenzhen, who has won three consecutive victories, will have a dialogue with the Japanese leader Ili Liao Jiuduan to compete for the final championship of this Nongshim Cup. (Jin Lei, chief reporter of Xinmin Evening News)
Editor: Lu Weixin