Report from this newspaper (Reporter Jin Lei) The 38th Tongli Cup China Tianyuan Tournament produced the top eight in the Chinese Go Association in Beijing yesterday. In the fierce competition, 5 world champions were eliminated. In the strong dialogue, Ding Hao, who ranked first in level, eliminated Gu Zihao, who ranked second.
Ding Hao 9th Dan and Gu Zihao 9th Dan encountered each other in this round (see the picture below). The former ranked first in the latest rating last month, while the latter is currently ranked first in real-time rating. Last year, Ding Hao won two world championships in the LG Cup and Samsung Cup. Gu Zihao defeated Shen Zhenzhen in the first Quzhou Lanke Cup to win the championship. , this 1/8 finals of the Tianyuan Competition can be described as a strong dialogue in advance.
In this game, it is guessed that Gu Zihao will take the black lead first. In the prologue, the two players were occupying each other's orphans in the upper right and lower right, and the situation was somewhat stalemate. The fierce battle took place in the center. Black moved from the lower right, but after being separated by white, the black chess became thinner. The lone chess on the lower left was entangled and attacked by white. The situation was urgent. Although Gu Zihao did the job in the end, the peripheral white chess was already quite strong, and black was besieged on all sides. At move 185, black had no choice but to stop the clock and admit defeat. Ding Hao won the middle game with white, and changed the record of the duel with Gu Zihao to 9 wins and 4 losses. .
In other competitions, Xu Jiayang beat Wang Shiyi 7th dan in 9th dan, Li Weiqing beat Xie Ke 9th dan in 9th dan, Liu Yuhang beat Xie Ke 9th dan in 7th dan, Lianxiao 9th dan beat Wang Xinghao 9th dan, Xue Guanhua 6th dan Dragon Slaying beat Yang Dingxin 9th dan, Yang Kaiwen beat Fan Tingyu 9th dan, Fan When Yin wins the 8th dan, he surpasses the 9th dan. In this way, 5 of the 6 world champions were eliminated in this round, leaving only Ding Hao in the quarterfinals. The two national individual competition champions Wang Shiyi and Xue Guanhua continued to move forward, and Liu Yuhang and Fan Yin, who came up from the qualifiers, did not stop either.
Today will be the quarter-finals of this year's Tongli Cup Tianyuan Competition to determine the top four. The specific matchup situations are: Lian Xiao vs. Xue Guanhua, Yang Kaiwen vs. Fan Yin, Ding Hao vs. Xu Jiayang, and Li Weiqing vs. Liu Yuhang.