In the third stage of this competition, South Korea and Japan were left with only the nine sections of Park Jeong-hwan and the nine sections of Jingshan Yutai. The Chinese team had four world champions: Ke Jie, Shiyue, Gu Zihao and party Yifei.
Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, February 18 (Reporter Zhu Di, Guo Jingdan) on the 18th, the 20th Nongsim Cup world go team championship held a press conference in Shanghai, and the third stage of the competition also opened on that day. Since both the Japanese and Korean teams had only the final main generals and immediately fought against each other, while the Chinese team still had four players such as Shiyue and Ke Jie, the third stage of the competition became the drama of the confrontation between China and South Korea or between China and Japan. The famous Korean Go player who appeared at the press conference on the same day said on Lee Chang-ho that although the Chinese team had a great hope of winning the championship, they still hoped that South Korean players would strive for a winning streak.
As an old Go Team Championship, the Nongxin Cup has entered its 20th year. The Nongxin Cup kicked off in Beijing in October, 2018. The first battle was played by the South Korean team pioneer an Guoxuan in the ninth stage against the Japanese team Pioneer Zhi WILD-TIGER pill in the seventh stage. The Japanese team took the lead. After the debut of Fan Tingyu, the pioneer of the Chinese team, first in Beijing station, Lian Shengzhi WILD-TIGER pill 7th stage, Shen Xiaoxiao 9th stage, bmdm G mi 8th stage; Then in Busan Station, he continuously won Cui Zhehan 9th stage, xu Jiayuan’s eighth section, Lee Se-dol ninth section and Yili Liao’s eighth section, Hao won seven consecutive victories and tied up his seven consecutive victories record in the 18th Nongxin Cup competition.
Similar to the 18th Nongxin Cup process, the South Korean team leader successfully blocked Fan Tingyu again Park Jeong-hwan, ending the latter’s seven-game streak. That game was a cliff battle for Park Tinghuan and South Korea. The pressure was huge. Once the Park Jeong-hwan fails, the South Korean team will face the embarrassment of five players for the first time. Fortunately, under the heavy pressure of Park Jeong-hwan, it turned the tide, defeated Fan Tingyu in the middle session, and dragged to the final Shanghai station in the “Three Kingdoms War.
In the third stage of this competition, South Korea and Japan are left with only the nine sections of Park Jeong-hwan and the nine sections of Jingshan Yutai. The Chinese team has four world champions: Ke Jie, Shiyue, Gu Zihao and the party Yifei. Since the first round of the 10th game was a duel between South Korea and Japan, the theme of the Shanghai railway station became “China-South Korea confrontation” or “China-Japan confrontation”.
For such a situation, Yu Bin, the chief coach of the Chinese team, said at the press conference that although there were still four players in the Chinese team, it was not likely that the First World War would succeed and win easily. In the 19th agricultural Cup, the Chinese team in the four consecutive championships lost a good game in the final stage, allowing the Korean team to win the agricultural Cup again after four years. Yu Bin also revealed that Ke Jie had not rushed to Shanghai due to the schedule, “but his rating is the highest, and his desire for war is also very strong”.
On that day, the famous Korean go stone Buddha appeared in Shanghai Lee Chang-ho years later. He said that he had never given up go, just because young players are very powerful now and he has not been promoted from the qualifier. In the face of the upcoming final decisive battle, Lee Chang-ho said that the Chinese team has the largest number of players and has a great hope of winning the championship. “But for chess players, it is normal to have pressure, and the pressure is good or bad, I hope that he (Park Jeong-hwan) can turn the pressure into motivation, and it is also possible that the five-game winning team will win the championship.”