Cui Jing defeated Zhou Hongyu and won the 5th SENKO CUP World Women’s Go Championship
On March 5th, the 5th SENKO CUP World Women’s Go Championship and Runner-up Final was held in JapanSouth Korea’s “Queen” Cui Jing won the championship for the first time by defeating China’s Zhou Hongyu 6th dan with 198 hands in a white 198. At the same time, she won the championship bonus of 10 million yen (regarding 508,000 yuan).
Zhou Hongyu won the runner-up and a bonus of 3 million yen. Japan’s Ueno Aisaki won the third dan and a 1 million yen bonus following defeating the Japanese genius girl Nakao Sumire in the third dan.
Cui Jing VS Zhou Hongyu in the final of the 5th SENKO CUP World Women’s Go Strongest Championship and Runner-up
In the final of the championship and runner-up, Zhou Hongyu played black once morest Cui Jing. The situation in the first 100 moves was very tight, and no one opened the gap. Entering the second half of the game, the situation began to heat up. Zhou Hongyu’s lower right step “retreat” seemed loose. Cui Jing took advantage of the situation and launched a entanglement attack on the black chess following pulling out from the middle abdomen. The black chess situation fell into a disadvantageous position.
Zhou Hongyu 6th Duan
Cui Jing Jiuduan
After that, although Zhou Hongyu caught Cui Jing’s problematic hand twice to narrow the gap in the situation, he was finally defeated by the attack of the Queen of Korea. The dragon on the lower right was slaughtered, and he lost his hatred. Cui Jing also won the championship trophy following winning two runner-ups in this event.
Ueno Aisaki defeated Nakao Sumire in the third and fourth place finals
In the finals of the third and fourth place, Ueno Aisami and Nakao Sumire, who held white, also struggled for regarding 120 moves before White gained the advantage, and finally won the middle game and won the third place.
(Qujiang)
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