Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 29. According to the China Go Association, the first day of the first round of the 27th LG Cup World Chess Championship was held online on the 29th. The three Chinese players who played 1 win and 2 losses, only Zhao Chenyu advanced on the 31st. the round of 16.

  Four Chinese chess players, Ke Jie, Mi Yuting, Ding Hao and Yang Dingxin, entered the top 16 directly as seeds, and the Chinese team will have a total of 5 players in the second round.

  In the game on the 29th, Zhao Chenyu defeated South Korean chess player Park Kian-ho in the black mid-table, and the other two Chinese chess players Shi Yue and Gu Zihao lost to Korean chess players Shin Min-hyun and Kim Ji-seok respectively.

The other two games of the day were played between Korean and Japanese players. As a result, Park Ha-min lost to Yu Jung-ki, and Park Jin led to victory over Sada Atsushi.

  On the 30th, there will be a contest on the second match day of the first round, and the Chinese team has no one to play.

  In the round of 16 on the 31st, Ke Jie played against Shen Minjun, Zhao Chenyu against Mi Yuting, Ding Hao and Yang Dingxin's opponents were Jin Zhixi and Park Jinsu respectively.

  The number of participants in the LG Cup has been reduced from 32 to 24 since the last session. In the first stage, there will be two rounds of competition, and each round will be held on two days.

This event adopts Korean rules, with 6 and a half black stickers, and the time is 5 times of 40-second countdown after 3 hours for each side. The championship prize is 300 million won (about 1.59 million yuan).