Special correspondent Coca reported that on May 22, the second round of the 19th LG Cup World Chess Championship, the top 16 game, was held in South Korea. Three Chinese players won 2 and lost 1, and the other six seats were all occupied by South Korean players.
This LG Cup competition is composed of 24 people. The quota allocation is: 2 winners and runners up of the previous championship, 11 hosts from South Korea (4 seeds+7 candidates), 6 Chinese (2 seeds+4 candidates), 3 Japanese (2 seeds+1 candidate), 1 Chinese Taipei (1 candidate), and 1 wild card. Six Chinese chess players, Ding Hao Jiuduan and Xie Erhao Jiuduan, were selected as the seed players. Mi Yuting Jiuduan, Ke Jie Jiuduan, Fan Tingyu Jiuduan and Gu Zihao Jiuduan were selected.
The first round of the game was held on May 20, and three Chinese players were eliminated. Fan Tingyu's ninth round, Gu Zihao's ninth round and Xie Erhao's ninth round were respectively blocked by South Korea's Li Zhixian's ninth round, Li Changxi's ninth round and Yuan Shengqin's ninth round, which was also a bad first round performance that had not been seen for many years.
In today's top 16 competition, Ke Jiejiuduan and Li Changxi Jiuduan had only fought once before in the 15th round of the regular season of the year beginning, and Li Changxi won a quarter of the time in the white. This time, Ke Jie, who is white, seems to have miscalculated when he was forced to count the black chess pieces on the left. The black chess pieces could just arch out after "bending over". White chess can't help it.
As a result, the two sides formed a big transformation. Although white chess also gained a strong external force in the midbelly, the upper left counter was killed, and the upper white chess had to work hard. Generally speaking, it lost a little and fell behind.
Later, Li Changxi showed his true nature of "nerve knife" again. Of course, Ke Jie's series of excellent hands on the right side of the board were really wonderful. A few hands pierced the black side of the right side of the board. He also became extremely thick and strong by drawing flowers, which reversed the situation.
Once he regains his composure, Ke Jie shows his talent in the move. Starting from the lower plate, he is closely linked and intimidated step by step, and then the lower plate is completely ransacked, further expanding the victory advantage. Not only that, he also forced Heiqi to compromise in the upper right corner, but Heiqi had no way to retreat, so he had to go ahead and rob. The two sides formed a big transformation again. After Ke Jie swallowed the whole upper right corner, he completely killed the suspense and won the middle game.
Ding Haojiuduan played white against Jin Zhenhui Qiduan, the strength gap between the two sides was obvious, and the winning rate of white chess rose to more than 90% after winning the last battle on the left. When Black Chess releases its winning hand and seeks to live out a piece in the appearance of the left board of White Chess, Ding Hao raises his sword and cuts it down to win easily.
Mi Yuting's Jiuduan and Bian Xiangyi's Jiuduan, the last runner up and the third ranking South Korean, have played against each other frequently in the last two years. In the semi-finals of the LG Cup in 2023 and the top 32 battle of the Lance Cup in 2024, Mi Yuting has suffered two consecutive defeats. In this battle, the white Mi Yuting was attacked by the sword at the bottom left, and the winning rate dropped to single digits. However, Bian Xiangyi was attacked by the Mi Yuting when he invaded the right side. After some magic operations, the Mi Yuting successfully reversed the situation.
However, when White Chess expanded its success in the upper round and broke the potential of Black Chess to become empty at last, Mi Yuting refused to go back alone, and insisted on dealing with it with the strongest method, giving Black Chess the only chance to make a fortune. As a result of the scramble, the white chess was able to return, but the white space in the upper right corner was damaged, and the black chess reversed the situation again until the end.
In the other five sets, the last champion Shen Zhenxu's Jiuduan was defeated by Han Xiangchao's Liuduan in the cold. In the middle set, when it was time to abandon his son, he "entrusted big" to cure the orphan. As a result, he became more and more serious, and the dragon's tail was cut off and he was defeated at one fell swoop; Shen Minjun's ninth section is better than Lai Junfu's eighth section, Park Tinghuan's ninth section is better than Zhiye's ninth section, and Li Zhixian's ninth section is better than Xu Haoxuan's ninth section.
The competition between the top eight: Ke Jie's ninth section vs Han Xiangchao's sixth section, Ding Hao's ninth section vs Li Zhixian's ninth section, Park Tinghuan's ninth section vs Bian Xiangyi's ninth section, Yuan Sheng's ninth section vs Shen Minjun's ninth section. The top eight and semi-finals will be held on September 30 and October 2, respectively, and the three rounds of chess showdown will be held from January 20 to 23, 2025. The LG Cup winner and runner up prizes were 300 million won and 100 million won respectively.
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