[Sports Today reporter Lee Sang-pil] Six Korean players, led by 9-dans Park Jeong-hwan and Byun Sang-il, advanced to the main draw of the 4th Quzhou Lanke Cup.
The combined preliminaries for the 4th Quzhou Lanke Cup World Go Open were held in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, China, from the 8th to the 12th.
A field of 375 competitors entered the qualifiers — professionals and amateurs rated 7-dan or higher from Korea, China, Japan and Chinese Taipei. After intense play, 32 players earned spots in the main event: 28 from the open section, three from the women’s section and one from the seniors.
Korea sent 44 players overall — 36 in the open (29 pros, seven amateurs), six women and two seniors — and six of them reached the main draw. In the open division, Park Jeong-hwan, Byun Sang-il, Lee Ji-hyun and Lee Won-young (all 9-dan) and Sim Jae-ik (7-dan) claimed tickets to the main event, while Han Jong-jin (9-dan) qualified from the seniors. All six Korean women, including Kim Eun-ji (9-dan), were eliminated in qualifying.
The main event will be a 48-player single-elimination tournament: the 32 qualifiers plus 16 seeded players.
Korea also has three players who drew automatic entry. Last year’s runner-up Shin Jin-seo (9-dan) received a defending seed; Shin Min-jun (9-dan) earned an international-tournament seed; and Kim Myung-hoon (9-dan) entered with a national team seed. China’s seeded list includes last year’s champion Dang Yifei (9-dan) along with Wang Xinghao, Ding Hao, Liao Yuanhe and Yang Kaiyuan (all 9-dan).
Japan’s seeds are Sakai Yuki (7-dan) and Miura Taro (5-dan), and Chinese Taipei’s seed is Wang Yuanjun (9-dan). Wild cards went to China’s Dan Boyao (7-dan) and Zhang Xinyu (5-dan). Europe’s Stanisław Frejlak (2-dan), North America’s Lin Tianyu (1-dan) and Southeast Asia’s Xu Xiaopan (6-dan) advanced through regional qualifiers to join the main field.
The main event’s opening ceremony is set for the 13th, with the round of 48 on the 14th and the round of 32 on the 15th. Play will resume with the round of 16 on October 9.
Now in its fourth year, the Quzhou Lanke Cup World Go Open has produced two Chinese champions so far (Gu Zihao and Dang Yifei) and one Korean champion (Shin Jin-seo).
The winner’s prize is 1,800,000 yuan (about $263,466), and the runner-up prize is 600,000 yuan (about $87,822). The tournament uses Chinese rules with a 7.5-point komi. Each player receives two hours of main thinking time, followed by five one-minute byo-yomi periods.
[Sports Today reporter Lee Sang-pil sports@stoo.com]
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The combined preliminaries for the 4th Quzhou Lanke Cup World Go Open were held in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, China, from the 8th to the 12th.
A field of 375 competitors entered the qualifiers — professionals and amateurs rated 7-dan or higher from Korea, China, Japan and Chinese Taipei. After intense play, 32 players earned spots in the main event: 28 from the open section, three from the women’s section and one from the seniors.
Korea sent 44 players overall — 36 in the open (29 pros, seven amateurs), six women and two seniors — and six of them reached the main draw. In the open division, Park Jeong-hwan, Byun Sang-il, Lee Ji-hyun and Lee Won-young (all 9-dan) and Sim Jae-ik (7-dan) claimed tickets to the main event, while Han Jong-jin (9-dan) qualified from the seniors. All six Korean women, including Kim Eun-ji (9-dan), were eliminated in qualifying.
The main event will be a 48-player single-elimination tournament: the 32 qualifiers plus 16 seeded players.
Korea also has three players who drew automatic entry. Last year’s runner-up Shin Jin-seo (9-dan) received a defending seed; Shin Min-jun (9-dan) earned an international-tournament seed; and Kim Myung-hoon (9-dan) entered with a national team seed. China’s seeded list includes last year’s champion Dang Yifei (9-dan) along with Wang Xinghao, Ding Hao, Liao Yuanhe and Yang Kaiyuan (all 9-dan).
Japan’s seeds are Sakai Yuki (7-dan) and Miura Taro (5-dan), and Chinese Taipei’s seed is Wang Yuanjun (9-dan). Wild cards went to China’s Dan Boyao (7-dan) and Zhang Xinyu (5-dan). Europe’s Stanisław Frejlak (2-dan), North America’s Lin Tianyu (1-dan) and Southeast Asia’s Xu Xiaopan (6-dan) advanced through regional qualifiers to join the main field.
The main event’s opening ceremony is set for the 13th, with the round of 48 on the 14th and the round of 32 on the 15th. Play will resume with the round of 16 on October 9.
Now in its fourth year, the Quzhou Lanke Cup World Go Open has produced two Chinese champions so far (Gu Zihao and Dang Yifei) and one Korean champion (Shin Jin-seo).
The winner’s prize is 1,800,000 yuan (about $263,466), and the runner-up prize is 600,000 yuan (about $87,822). The tournament uses Chinese rules with a 7.5-point komi. Each player receives two hours of main thinking time, followed by five one-minute byo-yomi periods.
[Sports Today reporter Lee Sang-pil sports@stoo.com]
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