Recently, Ding Hao got a new name, specializing in killing elites.
Ding Hao, as the main player of the Hangzhou team in the Weijia League, won the fifth round of Victory over South Korea's foreign aid Shin Jin-chan in June 2021. Especially from the seventh round to the tenth round, Ding Hao won consecutively against Mi Yuting, Gu Zihao, Yang Dingxin and Tao Xinran, four chess players in the top ten. In the latest ranking of grade points, Ding Hao has ranked fifth.
How did the word "kill elite" come about? Gu Zihao, currently ranked second in the Chinese Go ranking score, is inferior to Ding Hao.
Yang Dingxin, currently ranked third in the Chinese Go ranking score, is inferior to Ding Hao.
Ding Hao
In July 2021, Ding Hao participated in the 16th Weifu Fangkai Cup Go Tournament, and as a result, he continued his magical journey of killing elites in the first two rounds, winning Tang Weixing in the first round and Winning Shi Yue in the second round, making the two post-90s world champion winners his background board. Ding Hao's winning chess is full of gold.
Ding Hao continued to work hard, and this momentum was getting stronger and stronger.
In the fifth Wild Fox Go Popularity Tournament, Ding Hao also defeated Dang Yifei to enter the final in the name of the wind and bone, and then won yuan Shengqin 2:0 in the final, winning the championship and 500,000 prize money, some people will wonder Ke Jie, Shen Zhenchen did not participate? Of course, Ke Jie was the winner of the third and fourth Wild Fox Go Popularity Tournaments, and he eliminated Shen Zhenchen in the 5th round of black, and then lost to Gu Zihao, who lost to Yuan Shengqin in the semifinals.
Ding Hao won the Champion Chess Cup
In the 17th Advocate Chess Cup, Ding Hao won Zhou Hongyu's sixth dan, Han Yizhou's eighth dan, Tang Weixing's nine dan and Huang Yunsong's eighth dan in a row, and in the final 2-00, Yang Dingxin jiudan became a popular student in the Chinese Go industry.
Ding Hao won the CCTV Quick Chess Championship as early as 2019, and he also won the 2019 China Go League Most Valuable Chess Player Award, at that time, Ding Hao was only a six-dan chess player.
In August 2020, Ding Haosheng and Chen Xian's seven dan, the promotion section points reached the standard, and was promoted to the professional seven dan.
In May 2021, Ding Haosheng Xie Erhao's ninth dan, the promotion points reached the standard, and he was promoted to the eighth career dan.
In October 2021, Ding Hao's grade points reached the standard again, and Ding Hao became a Master of Nine Dan in China.
In the past year, Xie Ke, Xu Jiayang, Tao Xinran, Li Weiqing, and Zhao Chenyu have all been promoted to the ninth dan, and the Chinese Go world has been full of talents for a while, and Ding Hao is undoubtedly an outstanding person.
Yang Dingxin
Since it is so excellent, then contribute more to the country, the strange thing is that Ding Hao's best World Series result is actually the top sixteen of the World Series, this result is really shabby to the extreme, people can't help but compare him with Lian Xiao.
However, time is on the side of Ding Hao, because he is a new chess player after 00.
Speaking of post-00s chess players, the first thing that comes to mind is Xie Ke, Li Weiqing, and Liao Yuanhe. Then there is Ding Hao, in fact, the post-00 chess players also include Yi Lingtao, Chen Zijian, Jiang Qirun and others.
There is nothing special about chess players in this age group, but South Korea's latest level score first person Shin Jin-chan also happens to be born in 2000, so it is inevitable to be compared with Shin Ching-chan's two world championship titles, three world championship runners-up, and two major tournament final rights, even China's strongest group of chess players have also overshadowed, let alone the dismal results after 00.
World Series results Sheiko's best, a world championship runner-up, a major tournament finalist, a world finalist,
Li Weiqing, Yi Lingtao, Liao Won-hyuk and others who beat Park Tinghuan are good results, and can only be regarded as assassins in the Go World Series.
Liao Yuanhe
In 2009, he won the CCTV Cup, the runner-up of the 31st Asian Cup Quick Chess Tournament (the final defeated Shen Zhenchen), and in 2021 he won the 5th Wild Fox Go Popularity Tournament and the 17th Champion of the 17th Advocate Chess Cup.
For his career goals, Ding Hao made no secret of it: "My goal is to be the world champion."
Not only has the strength, but also has high ambitions, but the reality is that he can't even pass the Nongshim Cup selection competition, and the qualifications for the international competition are pitiful, and Shen Zhenchen is in South Korea, the international competition qualification is double digits, and there are data that show that the total number of qualifications for all the new chess players after the Seven 00s in China can barely compare with Shen Zhenchen.
If you don't give you a chance, what will I give you?
Therefore, going with the trend, there is already a voice in the Go world: such a strong chess player can win Tang Weixing, can win Yang Dingxin, can win Shen Zhenchen, why can't he give a world series free quota and let him play elite?
When the words come out, there are many who agree.
And the spearhead is directed at the Chinese Go selection system is unreasonable, Chinese Go has a strong thickness, so many excellent players are mostly injured by internal friction, can not afford to hurt ah.
However, giving Ding Hao an exemption quota is a good intention, but there are also two major drawbacks, one of which is not fair to other chess players, which is easy to dampen their enthusiasm. Second, once the players who are exempted from the qualification are not good, they will encounter greater criticism and bear greater pressure.
Tell a real example of Korean Go, Nongshim Cup Selection Tournament, Lee Chang-ho, once the king, has super strength, which is beyond doubt, but then Lee Chang-ho's dominance in the country declined, by Lee Sedol, Choi Chul-han and a group of young chess players who were greatly impacted, often could not pass the Nongshim Cup Selection Tournament, so the Korean Go community repeatedly awarded the wild card to Lee Chang-ho Nine Dan, because Lee Chang-ho Stone Buddha is the real trump card of Korean Go.
Lee Chang-ho
Was this initiative successful? Of course, it succeeded, in 2005, the sixth Nongshim Xin Ramen Cup China-Japan-Korea Go Tournament was held in Shanghai, and Lee Chang-ho's nine-dan consecutive victory over Luo Xiehe eight-dan, Zhang Xu-jiu-dan, Wang Lei-ba-dan, Wang Ming-wan-nine-dan, Wang Ming-wan's five-dan, with five consecutive victories, won the championship of this tournament for the Korean team for the sixth time. He set a stunning record of "fourteen consecutive wins" in the Nongshim Cup China-Japan-Korea Go Tournament. South Korean media praised Lee Chang-ho Jiudan as an "undefeated stone Buddha."
Even if he often loses chess in China, the chess that Lee Chang-ho is determined to win will definitely win. That's strength.
Wang Minghuan sighed: Want to win him? Go and practice a more powerful skill than him.
Lee Chang-ho delivered a winning speech: "I hope that the winning streak in the ring will be good for the recovery of my form." As soon as these words came out, the listeners were in an uproar.
It seems that as long as Lee Chang-ho is there, the South Korean team will have a strong competitiveness because he is the real trump card. So Lee Chang-ho was called a Korean steel gate.
In the past, the title of Steel Gate belonged to Nie Weiping, who won consecutive victories against Japanese chess players in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament.
What is less well known is that Lee Chang-ho paid the price of marrying at the age of 35.
Lee Sedol
Even if Lee Chang-ho is so powerful, there are still people who will have an opinion, who? His compatriot Lee Sedol.
In 2003, Lee Sedol made another abstention that caused a big uproar in the chess world. After learning of the nongshim company's decision to determine Lee Chang-ho as a chess player to participate in the Nongshim Cup competition, Lee Sedol announced that he would not participate in the Nongshim Cup selection competition.
He said: "I did not abstain because I did not become a special chess player, but I resented the format of giving Lee Chang-ho a nine-dan one-man special. It is fair that all 5 places are selected equally. It is said that the purpose of setting up preferential quotas is to form the strongest delegation, but even if Lee Chang-ho was selected in nine paragraphs, the delegation that was selected was also very strong. Besides, even if it's not the strongest delegation, so what? ”
However, Lee Sedol's abandonment of the Nongshim Cup selection competition is also limited to this session, and since 2004, the organizers of the Nongshim Cup have still given Lee Chang-ho the right to avoid the right to choose, but Lee Sedol still participated. Perhaps he understood the rule that the collective interest, the national interest above the individual interest.
In fact, it is no accident that Lee Sedol became another king of Go, and the price he paid for Go was not to go to junior high school, because the minimum requirement for academic qualifications in the South Korean army is to graduate from junior high school, and he only went to elementary school and could be exempted from military service.
Ke Jie
Let's imagine that if Ding Hao represents China in the international competition, others are selected, and Ding Hao is exempt from the election, waiting for work, but the task of sniping a strong hand you will be able to complete? For example, if you win, many melon eaters will think that you should be so, if you lose, then sorry, it is estimated that the saliva will drown you.
For example, Ding Hao won the first few rounds, drew with Ke Jie, did not draw with Shen Zhenchen, and as a result, Ding Hao eliminated Ke Jie and lost to Shen Zhenchen, what would be the situation? It is estimated that people who call him "internal" will have it.
In 1996, in the first Samsung Cup semi-final, Yoo Chang-hyuk eliminated Lee Chang-ho, and lost to the Japanese chess player Kiki Ieda in the final, letting the champion fall by the wayside, South Korean public opinion was in an uproar, and there was a lot of noise.
In 1998, the second LG Cup, Liu Chang-hyuk once again eliminated Lee Chang-ho in the semi-finals, but in the final he lost 2:3 to Taiwanese Chinese chess player Wang Licheng, which almost drowned Liu Changhe in the saliva of Korean chess fans, giving him the title of "traitor".
In 2000, the fourth LG Cup, or Liu Changhe, he crossed the knife. Leaving Lee Chang-ho out of the final, Yoo Chang-hyuk continued to drop the chain in the final (Korean perspective), and in the final, Yoo Chang-hyuk lost 1:3 to Yu Bin. Yu Bin connected with Cao Xuanxuan and Liu Changhe, winning the championship trophy, and Chinese chess fans smiled happily, praising Liu Changhe for having an international spirit (Chinese perspective).
Guess how Korean chess fans behave? This time they upgraded Liu Changhe, because South Korea was in the midst of the Asian financial crisis at that time, they said that Liu Changhe wasted valuable foreign exchange resources, I went to ask How big is The psychological shadow area of Liu Changhe?
Shen Zhenchen
Therefore, to give Ding Hao a chance to avoid the qualifications, we must be cautious, because this is a double-edged sword, which may be successful or pounce on the street.
Two years ago, when Ding Hao first began to produce results, his results were not stable, both in the fourth Dream Lily Cup Thirty-two Rounds (October 2019) and in the fourth Dream Lily Cup Sixteen Finals (October 2019).
Gu Zihao
Ding Hao can persist to this day, and is still full of enthusiasm for Go, first of all because of his love for Go, the famous Go player once said: If our results are not good, it just means that our team does not love Go enough.
Compared with Shen Zhenchen's nearly ten hours of research every day, compared with the hard work of AI playing thousands of games, Ding Hao said: "I can't be regarded as a particularly hard worker, and my level of work is probably only moderate." I have hardly received one-on-one coaching since I was a kid, and even if I did, I wouldn't have done it more than five times. My chess strength can reach this point today, and in the process of reviewing the game alone or with the help of AI research, there is often a feeling of flashing and suddenly opening up. On the contrary, if you discuss together, I can't find that kind of epiphany, there are more people talking about it, and the seminar goes astray. ”
Interpreting this passage shows that Ding Hao attaches more importance to the efficiency of studying Go.
Sheiko
Ding Hao knows his post-00 teammates better: "Xie Ke can enter the two World Series finals, not because his strength is particularly strong, but because he has excellent psychological quality, strong self-confidence, full of tenacity, and often flips, of course, this is the embodiment of strength;
Li Weiqing's chess style is steady, there are few mistakes, if he follows his rhythm, he will most likely lose, and if he wants to win, he can only disrupt his rhythm;
Liao Yuanhe is very similar to Xie Ke, tough and strong, and in the 2019 Samsung Cup quarterfinals, he reversed his victory over Shin Jin-chan's game of chess that best reflects his style. ”
China's Nongshim Cup has one or two free places, the current probability is not yet Ding Hao, but as long as there is strength, it will soon be his turn, as for participating in international competitions, you need to become a seeded player to qualify, the world champion or domestic champion title winner is eligible, I am glad that Ding Hao has taken a gratifying step.
Wait patiently, in 2022, Ding Hao is worth looking forward to.