On November 10th, Beijing time, the 26th LG Cup World Chess King Championship semi-finals will continue online. In the other semi-finals that took the lead yesterday, Yang Dingxin quickly defeated teammate Mi Yuting to qualify for the finals. Today’s second semi-final is South Korea’s first player Shin Jin Jie against China’s eight-time champion Ke Jie. This is a crucial battle concerning the fate of China and South Korea Go. If Shin Jin can win the Korean Go game, it is likely to be in the 2021 season. To completely suppress the Chinese team, if Ke Jie can defeat the opponent Chinese chess player, he will take the championship and runner-up in this game ahead of time. Prior to this, Ke Jie had 11 wins and 5 losses against Shen Zhenzhen. In recent years, he has maintained suppression of Shen Zhenzhen.
Ke Jie was born in August 1997 and is currently 24 years old, a student at Tsinghua University. Shin Jin-jeong was born in March 2000 and is currently 21 years old. Unlike the top chess players we are familiar with, Shin Jin-jeong had a girlfriend early on. Her girlfriend is 19-year-old Xu Rui-hyun, a professional chess player in the Korean chess academy. Ke Jie has won 8 world championships so far. Shen Zhenzhen won the 24th LG Cup at the beginning of last year, and won the Chunlan Cup by defeating Tang Weixing in September this year. The LG Cup is dubbed the “Husband Cup” by Chinese chess players. Although Ke Jie has won the Samsung Cup four times, he has not yet reached the LG Cup finals, and the LG Cup has not been able to continue since the first game in 1997. Chess player who won the championship in two games, although Lee Chang-ho won the championship three times, there was a gap in between.
The first official match between Ke Jie and Shen Zhenzhen is generally considered to be the 2014 Limin Cup World Go Star Tournament. Ke Jie defeated Shen Zhenzhen in the qualifiers, but Ke Jie lost half-heartedly in the first round of the match. Shen Zhenzhen. After a lapse of three years, the two talents met again in the 2017 season. In the 22nd round of the siege, Shen Zhenren defeated Ke Jie, but in the 22nd LG Cup quarter-finals, Ke Jie defeated Shen Zhenzhen. At the beginning of the game, Ke Jie started a six-game winning streak against Shen Zhenzhen.
On March 7, 2018, in the first round of the 2nd World‘s Strongest Chess Fighter, Ke Jie defeated Shen Zhenzhen again. In the 23rd Samsung Cup quarterfinals on October 2, 2018, Ke Jie defeated Shen Zhenzhen to advance to the semi-finals. In the 4th Bailing Cup final in January 2019, Ke Jie won the championship 2-0 and won his seventh world championship. On May 6, 2019, in the fourth round of the Siege, Ke Jie defeated his opponent again. In the LG semi-finals on October 30 of that year, Shen Zhenzhen defeated Ke Jie with a black mid-game. He stopped losing six straight against Ke Jie, and was in the first place. In the finals at the beginning of the second year, Park Ting-hwan won the world championship for the first time.
In the top 16 of the LG Cup in 2020, Ke Jie once again defeated Shen Zhenzhen to advance to the quarter-finals. In the same year, the Samsung Cup finals Shen Zhenzhen easily won the first round of the skating Ke Jie, and Ke Jie won the second round and won the opponent 2-0. Won the eighth individual crown. In the Nongshim Cup at the beginning of this year, the head coach between China and South Korea was finally played. Shin Zhenzhen defeated Ke Jie to help the South Korean team win the championship. However, in the third round of the encirclement on May 10, Ke Jie defeated Shen Zhenzhen and immediately “revenged”. Not long ago, the two met in the Wild Fox Popularity Ranking Tournament, and Ke Jie won again.
In recent years, Ke Jie has kept the competition suppressing Shen Zhenzhen in general, but Shen Zhenzhen has gained a strong momentum after winning his first World Series title at the beginning of last year. In addition, Ke Jie’s performance in the competition has declined in the past two years after studying at university. , The state of comparison between the two has slightly changed. At the beginning of this year, Shin Jin-jeong once said that he would win the World Series and he was not allowed to lose a game. However, Shin Jin-jeong lost 1-2 to Park Ting-hwan in the Samsung Cup final earlier this month. Three days ago in the LG Cup quarter-finals, Ke Jie said after knocking out Pu Tinghuan: “Although you (chess fans) say who is so good, I have never thought of it like this. You can only use chess to prove yourself. It’s useless.” Today’s battle between the two will be very worth looking forward to. (Red)Return to Sohu to see more
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