Tang Weixing and Gu Zihao missed the quarter-finals in the Samsung Cup Go competition jqknews

The top 16 of the 27th Samsung Cup World Go Masters Tournament played four games on the 31st. Two Chinese players, Gu Zihao and Tang Weixing, both lost their 9th Dan and missed the quarter-finals.

Gu Zihao won the Samsung Cup in 2017. In this match against South Korean chess player Bian Xiangyi 9dan, Gu Zihao, who played with white, was quite active in the layout and preface phase. However, in the mid-game battle, Gu Zihao made a mistake and the white dragon was killed unexpectedly.

Tang Weixing, who has won the Samsung Cup twice, failed to go any further this time. In the 9-dan match with South Korean chess player Jin Mingxun, Tang Weixing lost the game to black 269.

In the other two games of the day, South Korean chess players Kim Ji Suk and Cui Jing nine dan respectively defeated their respective opponents, including Cui Jing eliminated the famous Japanese player Ili Liao and became the second player of the World Championship after Rui Naiwei. and Hua Xueming of China, the chess player who made it to the quarter-finals. Korean chess players occupied half of the top eight in this tournament.

The other four matches of the round of 16 will be played on November 1st. Chinese Fan Tingyu and Tan Xiao will face South Koreans Shen Zhenzhen and Park Tinghuan respectively, while another Chinese Yang Dingxin will face Japanese Xu Jiayuan.