On March 20th, the third world’s most powerful chess game final was held in Tokyo court of the Japanese Chess Academy. China’s Ke Jie’s 9th segment Zhibai 1.5 mesh lost to South Korea’s Park Jeong-hwan 9th segment, won the most powerful chess champion in Park Jeong-hwan, and won a prize of 20 million yen (about 1.2 million yuan), ke Jie, the runner-up, received 5 million yen (about 300000 yuan).
In the previous semi-final, Ke Jie was lucky to reverse the first person in Japanese go, Yutai Jing. In another semi-final, he defeated his compatriots Shen Zhenzhen Park Jeong-hwan steadily and won the final with Ke Jie.
Ke Jie fought 19 times before Park Jeong-hwan, Ke Jie won 9 and lost 10, and lost one more game. The last match between the two was in the final of the New Year Cup on February 2, 2019. Ke Jie made a low-level mistake and lost the good game in the win-win situation. This is the only time that Ke Jie lost to Zhibai in Park Jeong-hwan. The strongest chess game final met again, and Ke Jie was bound to hope to complete the “revenge”.
In this final, Ke Jie guessed White Chess. In the upper right corner, the two sides of the order set a three-and-three-shaped large-scale counterkill. Park Jeong-hwan, considering the layout direction, they chose the change of the abandoned son to take advantage of the trend. This part foreshadowed the whole chess battle.
In the middle disk stage, Park Jeong-hwan was reluctant in the setting treatment at the bottom left, and Ke Jie took the opportunity to take the lead. However, Park Jeong-hwan soon made a strong hand in the upper left to try to bring back the situation. After the conversion of the robbery between the two sides, Park Jeong-hwan ate the upper left corner, but Ke Jie ransacked the middle abdomen and provoked the upper right robbery. He still took the initiative slightly. In the process of the subsequent robbery, Ke Jie and Park Jeong-hwan both showed superb competitive standards. The robbery went in and out greatly, but the outcome was extremely subtle.
At 238 hands, Ke Jie seized the opportunity to dispel the right-to-right robbery and basically established a leading edge. However, in the subsequent official process, Ke Jie made a simple mistake, losing a few pieces of chess and handing over the advantages. Park Jeong-hwan did not give Ke Jie any chance among the subsequent officials, and finally he won the battle with 1.5 eyes. People can’t help thinking of the scene of the showdown between the two in Chunlan Cup.
In this way, Park Jeong-hwan won the world’s strongest chess champion and won three successive championships in this event. Ke Jie and Park Jeong-hwan record changed to 9 wins and 11 losses.
The world’s strongest chess champion is 20 million yen and the runner-up is 5 million yen. Use Japanese go rules, black stickers 6.5 mesh. It takes 3 hours per party and 5 times for 1 minute reading.
(Zhang Qi)