Special correspondent Coca reports On August 5, the final of the 10th National Champion Mountain Cup International Go Tournament hosted by Korea ended in Yeongam County, Jeollanam-do, Korea, and Chinese Taipei Lai Junfu defeated Shin Jinzhen Jiudan with 296 hands and a half dan in the nine-dan, and won the championship for the first time in the final.
In this year's National Champion Mountain Cup, the organizer has greatly increased the overall bonus, and the championship prize has been increased from 75 million won to 100 million won (about 526,000 yuan), officially entering the "era of 100 million yuan". The runner-up and semi-finals have also increased their bonuses, with the runner-up rising from 25 million won to 40 million won (about 214,000 yuan), and the top 16 to the semi-finals losing the prize money of 3 million, 7 million, and 15 million won respectively.
In the quarterfinals, Lai Junfu became the only non-Korean chess player to advance to the semifinals, and Shin Zhenzhen 9 dan, Shin Min Jun 9 dan, and Bian Xiang Yi 9 dan formed a "three Ying vs. Lü Bu" trend against Lai Junfu. In the semi-finals played in the morning and afternoon of the previous day, Lai Junfu 9th Duan and Shin Zhenzhen 9th Duan defeated Bian Xiangyi 9th Duan and Shin Minjun 9th Duan respectively to advance to the finals. This is also Shin Zhenzhen's third consecutive tournament finals, after he won one championship and one runner-up.
In today's final, the prologue is like going back to 30 years ago, starting from the bottom left, the two sides are entangled, and several black and white dragons are not alive, competing to come out of the midbelly. When the black piece broke the white piece on the lower board and investigated the loophole in the white chess shape, Shen Zhenzhen angrily took off the first place and resolutely turned to the upper board to forcibly seal the black dragon, wanting to hit the right shot.
Lai Junfu had a foreshadowing in this early morning, he clicked into the lower left white horn to hit the west, Xiang Zhuang sword dance was intended to Pei Gong, but the real intention was to eat the four white chess tendons on the side, but Lai Junfu was a little anxious, Shen Zhenzhen turned back in time, abandoned the four pieces, and let the black chess become a piece, but because the black chess lost too much in the white corner, the winning rate was still white chess.
The two sides moved to the right board, and Shen Zhenzhen showed his profound skills, and it seemed that the white pieces were scattered and unformed, but after a few moves, the white pieces were settled everywhere, while the black pieces were in danger of not being able to make real space. In the process, the black chess could have been robbed and killed by the right white chess, but in the actual battle Lai Junfu took the initiative to give up, Xu Haohong, who was watching the battle, judged that Lai Junfu may not be able to read the number of seconds in the middle, and mistakenly thought that his situation was acceptable, so he did not use the strong.
Entering the official stage, the winning rate of black chess is already in single digits, and there is no suspense about the outcome of the game, but Shen Zhenzhen, who has always been rigorous in the second half of the game, has made rare mistakes in a row. Then he "stabbed" a hand in the mid-abdomen, completely cutting off the chance of reversal.
After that, Lai Junfu continued to play in the countdown, but the number was almost perfect, and by the end of the game of 296 moves, black narrowly won by a half-eye.
It was Lai's first World Championship title, but he couldn't have been happier to beat Shin Jinjin in the final. The closing ceremony was held tonight in Sinan-gun.