Chinanews client, Beijing, August 22 (Reporter Yue Chuan) The brave wins when meeting on a narrow road. In the last game of the 21st Nongshim Cup World Go Team Championships just concluded, the Chinese leader Ke Jie withstood huge pressure and defeated the Korean leader Park Ting-hwan in the middle of the game, and helped the Chinese team successfully defend the title for the eighth time. Nongshim Cup.

Data map: photo by Ke Jie and Zhong Xin

　　The World Go Team Championship represents the highest level of team competition in the world, and its importance needless to say. In addition, the current Nongshim Cup is the most important Go tournament since the outbreak of the epidemic, which naturally makes it more concerned by chess fans in China, Japan and South Korea.

　　The champions of the previous World Go Team Championships are generally produced in February. This year, due to the epidemic, the second half of the game was postponed for nearly half a year. Good things are hard to come by. The Chinese team composed of Ke Jie, Fan Tingyu, Xie Erhao, Mi Yuting and Yang Dingxin finally succeeded in defending the title as desired.

　　Although the Japanese team has been relatively weak in recent years, the South Korean team is strong, with four world champions among the five players. In particular, Shin Jinjo, the top ranked player in South Korea, has become increasingly optimistic about his prospects since winning the LG Cup. Therefore, it is not easy for the Chinese team to defend their title.

Data map: photo by Yang Dingxin, China News Agency reporter Zhang Lang

　　The progress of the game is also as expected, the Chinese team won it hard. The ability to defend the title as desired is first attributed to the brilliant performance of pioneer Yang Dingxin.

　　In the first stage of the Nongshim Cup, Won Sung Kyung, Yamashita Keigo and Kim Ji Suk were defeated by Yang Dingxin; in the second stage, he eliminated Yili Liao, Li Dongxun, Shen Zhenzhen and Xu Jiayuan one after another. At this point, Yang Dingxin, who has won seven consecutive victories, has played the Japanese and Korean teams with only the main players left, and the Chinese team has not lost one.

　　In the history of the Nongshim Cup, players including Hu Yaoyu, Lee Changho, Peng Quan, Jiang Dongyun, Xie He, and Dang Yifei have completed five consecutive victories in a single game, while Shen Minji has won six consecutive victories. In the 18th and 20th games, Fan Tingyu, who played as a pioneer, won seven consecutive victories twice, laying a solid foundation for the Chinese team to win the championship, which is also the previous record of consecutive wins in the Nongshim Cup.

　　Therefore, Yang Dingxin of "Seven Cities in a Row" not only tied the winning streak set by Fan Tingyu, but also copied the story of the "Pioneer Club Master" once again.

Data map: South Korean leader Park Tinghuan and Zhongxin photo

　　However, in the final game of the second stage at the end of last year, Yang Dingxin regretted losing to Japanese leader Yuta Iyama. Although he failed to break the record, his amazing performance opened the door to the championship for the Chinese team.

　　The main player Ke Jie also contributed. When Pu Tinghuan was getting better, Ke Jie, who appeared on the finale, ended his dream of championship.

　　As a world champion, although Park Ting-hwan seems to be inferior to his teammate Shin Jin recently, he has been playing as the main player of the South Korean team for many consecutive years, and this time is no exception. Piao Tinghuan also proved that he could be a major task. He retreated four times without retreating, and finally hired the Chinese leader Ke Jie.

Ke Jie and Park Tinghuan are old rivals. The picture shows the 2020 8th CCTV Lunar New Year Cup China-Japan-Korea Chinese New Year Go Tournament Finals Photo by Zhong Xin

　　Although Mi Yuting, Fan Tingyu, and Xie Erhao lost to Park Tinghuan, Ke Jie, who had a lasting fight today, put an end to the suspense. So far, in the last 9 World Go Team Championships, the Chinese team has won 7 times, once again showing the strong team strength and talent thickness in the Go game.

　　Looking back on this tournament in the future, in addition to the wonderful performances of Yang Dingxin, Ke Jie and others, the rematch between Park Tinghuan and Fan Tingyu will also be an impressive memory point.

　　In online games, the worst thing is to encounter accidents such as network dropouts, machine failures, etc. Similar emergencies also occurred in this Nongshim Cup competition. The game between Park Tinghuan and Fan Tingyu the day before yesterday announced a rematch after a long break.

Park Ting-hwan's timeout moment

　　Park Ting-hwan has a habit. He likes to place his son when the countdown reaches the 9th second or so. This is also brought by him from face to face to online games.

　　The accident happened at hand 157. Prior to this, the white player Piao Tinghuan had a stable performance with a strong chess shape, while Fan Tingyu was at a disadvantage. But until the countdown time for this hand, the chess fans watching the game have not been able to wait for Pu Tinghuan to settle.

　　From the video provided by the Korean Chess Institute afterwards, it can be seen that Park Ting-hwan had clicked the mouse at the 8th and 9th seconds, but there was no feedback on the screen until the timeout.

　　Afterwards, Park Ting-hwan signaled to the staff that the Korean Chess Academy concluded that the server was normal and the problem might be the mouse. However, some netizens thought after watching the video that it was Park Tinghuan who clicked the wrong position. In any case, the result of the timeout cannot be changed.

Ke Jie's finalized picture. Photo by reporter Zeng Nai

　　Regardless of whether it is stopping a hand or directly losing, overtime means a loss for Park Ting-hwan, and also means that the South Korean team is annihilated. However, after negotiation between the relevant organizations of the two parties, the game of Fan Tingyu and Park Tinghuan was sentenced to a rematch.

　　Hua Xueming, vice chairman of the Chinese Go Association, said: "Sports must first follow the rules, but sports should also have its'temperature' and'spirit'."

　　In this year's Nongshim Cup, the Chinese team won a big victory on and off the board. (Finish)