Ke Jie’s three consecutive defeats in the World Championship, Shen Zhen’s chess move was predicted to be difficult to turn the tideFly into the homes of ordinary people
Data map of Ke Jie (left) and Shen Zhenzhen
The 13th game of the 23rd Nongshim Shin Ramen Cup World Go Team Championship was played online yesterday followingnoon. In this eye-catching first-person battle between China and South Korea, Ke Jie finally lost to Shen Zhenxuan’s 9th dan in the black 228 hands. China was eliminated early from this year’s Nongshim Cup, and South Korea’s Shen Zhenzhen and Japan fought for the championship.
The Nongshim Cup meets Xiao Shen once more
The process of this year’s Nongshim Cup has been ups and downs. In the first stage, neither China, Japan and South Korea had a winning streak. In the second stage, Japan’s Iyama Yuta 9th dan was in outstanding condition, winning the 9th dan of China Fan Tingyu, South Korea’s Bian Xiangyi 9th dan, China’s Li Qincheng 9th dan and South Korea’s Shin Minjun 9th dan. The third stage started. Chinese deputy Mi Yuting attacked Jingshan in the ninth dan, and ended the latter’s four-game winning streak while forcing the South Korean leader Shen Zhenzheng into the ninth dan. 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 defeated the Japanese deputy general Yu Zhengqi, the eighth dan. So far, the three teams of China, Japan and South Korea have only the main player left. This is the fifth time in the history of the Nongshim Cup that the Three Kingdoms will join forces in the final stage.
Ke Jie in competition
After Mi Yuting lost the game, Ke Jie, the Chinese general, said, “It’s my turn 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 Muragawa, the Chinese deputy 9th dan, and the Japanese leader Yuta Iyama 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 22nd Nongshim Cup in 2021, Ke Jie, who served as the main general, lost to South Korean deputy general Shen Zhenzhen, who completed a five-game winning streak and lifted the championship trophy for the 13th time for the Korean team. The Chinese team’s hope for the championship this year has once once more fallen to the main player 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.”
Anticipating Ke Jie’s chess move
Before the war, Shen Zhenzhen had won 18 consecutive games once morest Chinese players in the World Series. The last time I lost chess was to Ke Jie in the second game of the Samsung Cup final in November 2020. Shen Zhenzhen revealed that he had made preparations for the match once morest Ke Jie this time: “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, and 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.”
Shin Jin in the match
Yesterday followingnoon’s game, following guessing, Ke Jie took the black first. 20 minutes before the game, Ke Jie prepared the layout with superb skills in the national team training room. As a result, Shen Zhenzhen had obviously studied Ke Jie’s plan. Black 7 was in a high clip on the right, and White 8 was re-folded to take a solid ground. Entering the middle game, in the competition between the upper right and the upper side, the black chess moves are somewhat stagnant, and the white chess opens the situation. After that, Black wanted to force the mid-bellies, but White’s response was solid, and the right side was solid. Black can’t catch the white stone with a strong attack, and can only hold the empty space on the left. White made the first move, and then grabbed the big field below, with an obvious advantage entering the end. Although Black chased following him with all his strength, he failed to find an opportunity. At 228 moves, Ke Jie reluctantly threw his stones and conceded defeat. Shen Zhenzhen won three consecutive victories.
Shen Zhenzhen revealed following the game that he expected Ke Jie’s chess moves, and everything he had prepared came in handy. In the World Series, this is Shen Zhenzhen’s third consecutive victory in the dialogue with Ke Jie following the last Nongshim Cup and last year’s LG Cup semifinals.
Following the defeat of Ke Jie, 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 was the 7th Nongshim Cup 16 years ago. This followingnoon, Shen Zhenzhen, who has won three consecutive victories, had a dialogue with the Japanese general Ili Liao Jiuduan to compete for the final championship of this Nongshim Cup. (Jin Lei, chief reporter of Xinmin Evening News)
Editor: Lu Weixin
