Globis Cup World Go U20 Tournament is hosted by the Japanese chess institute and sponsored by globis. It was founded in 2014 and invited sixteen players under the age of 20 from all over the world to participate. China's Huang Yunsong, Li Qincheng , Xu Jiayang , South Korea Shen Zhenxing , Shen Minyi, and Japan's Yili Liao are the winners of the first six championships. Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, the 8th globis cup could not be held in Tokyo, Japan as scheduled. The organizer changed the form of online competition, changed the previous double-elimination system to single-elimination in the first round, and the competition time was also changed from three days. reduced to two days. Correspondingly, the competition bonus and the game fee are all halved. This year's first, second, and third place bonuses are 1.5 million, 250,000, and 100,000 yen (about 100,000, 16,000, and 6,000 yuan).
The age limit for participating in this competition is limited to those born in 2000 and later. For new competitions, China, Japan and South Korea have tacitly agreed not to send world champions, and China has not sent domestic champions to a greater extent in recent years. Korean Shen Zhenzhen and Chinese Ding Hao , who were originally age-appropriate, failed to catch up with the "last train" because they were LG Cup champions and Chinese CCTV Cup champions. But even so, China's Liao Yuanhe, Xie Ke , Li Weiqing are the main players in the Weijia league for many years, and South Korea's Park Jong-hoon, Park Chang-jin and Wen Minzhong are also up-and-coming talented players. In contrast, Ryuping Onishi, the number one post-00s generation in Japan, was unexpectedly eliminated in the domestic qualifiers. What is not surprising in this competition is the pattern of China and South Korea competing for hegemony. The
competition was based on the first two rounds of draws, and the semi-finals were drawn again. The three Chinese players were divided into three areas. The first round of draws was good. Liao Yuanhe and Li Weiqing faced off against Japanese players Kan Hangtaro and Ueno Aisaki. , Xie Ke selected Gao Jiyang, the amateur 4th Duan representing Singapore. The distribution of 16 participants in the Globis Cup is as follows: six from host Japan, three from China and South Korea, one from Chinese Taipei and one from Europe, North America and Southeast Asia.
At 9:00 am Beijing time (10:00 Tokyo and Seoul time), the competition started in five places in the world at the same time. There are many computers in the arena of the Chinese Chess Academy, which is a standard layout for international online games. The world competition is held on the Internet. The first is the quarter-finals of the 4th Dream Lily Cup at the end of April. The party involved is Xie Ke. But after three months, Xie Ke came to the game room and still said he was nervous. Indeed, if online competitions encounter chess players from non-East Asian traditional top three regions, it will become big news if they are upset. However, Singapore's small opponents can't pose a threat to Xie Ke yet, and Xie Ke, who finished playing black at the beginning of a corner, has reached a certain winning rate. After only half an hour of the game, Xie Ke won in the middle.
After another half an hour, the Japanese teenager Kan Hang Taro failed to withstand the profound skills of Liao Yuanhe and was defeated. Kōtaro Seki is the first player in the Japanese Go world to win the World Junior Championship, and he is also a rookie who has high expectations. He played well in the first half of this game, and the winning rate is about 100 moves. When it comes to fighting, it's still not enough. Interestingly, since Japan has two chess players named "Air Taro", namely Kan Hang Taro born in 2001 and Fukuoka Air Taro in 2005, Liao Yuanhe always thought his opponent was a smaller Fukuoka before the game. Air Taro didn't realize it until he came to the arena to chat with his friends.
Li Weiqing is the highlight of the first round against Japanese female chess player Ueno Aizumi. Previously, female masters , Cui Jing, and Fujisawa Rina have both played in the GLOBIS Cup, and Fujisawa Rina even defeated one of the contestants of this competition, Xie Keda into the quarterfinals. Because Ueno Aisaki won the runner-up in the Japanese Dragon Star War in 2019, the three players also mentioned the story of Ueno's loss in the final due to a rare "Dragon Eye". Not to be taken lightly, this game was set up diligently. In the pre-game stage, he caught Ueno's unreasonable hand and ate a piece and withstood the heavy counterattacks, maintaining the victory to the end.
Results of the first round: Group A: Liao Yuanhe 8 dan (China) won the 143 hand set against Kanataro 3 dan (Japan), Lai JunfuFifth dan (Chinese Taipei) beat Naoki Hachiman 2nd dan (Japan) with 161 hands in Black Group B: Wen Min Zhong 2nd dan (South Korea) played 207 hands over time to beat Otake Yu 4th dan (Japan), Xie Ke 8th dan (China) ) in the black 209 hand to beat Gao Jiyang 4 dan (Singapore)
Group C: Li Weiqing 8 dan (China) white 190 hand to win the Ueno Aisaki 3 dan (Japan), Park Jong Hoon 4 dan (South Korea) white 190 hand set wins Lin Evan 6th dan (North America)
D group: Park Changzhen 4th dan (South Korea) won 196 hands in white, Hirose Yuichi 4th dan (Japan), Tanaka Kangyong 2nd dan (Japan) won 167 hands over Anton The second round of the 7-dan (Russia)
started at 12:00 (Beijing time) on August 1. The winners of the first round met each other to determine the semi-finalists.
