On the morning of March 3, the third round and semi-finals of the 23rd Southwest Chess Championship of the "Sichuan Airlines Panda Road Cup" in 2024 were held in Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage.
In the quarterfinals the day before, the four world champions gathered in the semifinals, which was also the fourth time after 2018, 2021, and 2023 that the world champions swept the semifinals of the Southwest King. Among the four world champions, only Ding Hao Jiudan has never been crowned the king of the southwest before.
Semi-final matchups: Ke Jie 9th Duan vs Ding Hao 9th Duan, Yang Dingxin 9th Duan VS Fan Tingyu 9th Duan. Previously, Ke Jie fell behind Ding Hao with 6 wins and 11 losses, and this time she fought again, but the chess situation was one-sided. After Ke Jie, who was holding white in the lower left, broke the battle, the black chess piece immediately fell into trouble, and the black dragon came out in an embarrassed shape, but it was still attacked by the white chess stern card, and the black chess piece suddenly couldn't move.
In desperation, Ding Hao broke his arm to survive, and the left dragon was killed early, and the winning rate fell to single digits, and the chess game process was less than 60 hands at this time. Ding Hao, who was at a big disadvantage, tried to kill the white dragon in the lower right, and after forming a robbery, white retreated a little and survived on the spot.
Black misses a single hit, and then makes various attempts in many places, and it seems that the situation is treacherous and suspenseful, but after all, black is reluctant. Ke Jie coped safely, maintained the advantage until the endgame, won to 192 hands, and advanced to the final for the third time.
On the real-time rating ranking list, Ke Jie, who won all the way in the Southwest King Competition, rose sharply, surpassing Gu Zihao for nine sections and returning to the top of the list.
Defending champion Fan Tingyu Jiudan and 15th, 16th, and 20th Southwest Kings Champion Yang Dingxin Jiudan have played 18 times before, and the battle is exactly 9-9. Yang Dingxin, who was in charge of white in this game, forced Fan Tingyu to form a conversion between potential and ground after entering the black corner on the left, and after the white chess cut off two black pieces on the periphery to become a potential, the situation was dominant and the winner was the leader.
Fan Tingyu, who is extremely good at clearing the air, began his "infiltration flow", drilled into the upper left white chess shape, and lived a tricky way to reverse the situation in one fell swoop. After that, Fan Tingyu played so old that he simplified the situation while entangled in the white solitary chess game on the top. In the process of escaping from orphans, the upper right white piece suffered the scourge of pond fish, and after being slaughtered, it was already defeated.
Yang Dingxin launched the final blow in the midbelly, but the move was extremely reluctant, and Fan Tingyu did not accept it when he saw it, and directly disconnected the white chess and annihilated it, and the chess game ended.
Ke Jie and Fan Tingyu competed for the championship this afternoon, after the two fought for 32 sets, and Ke Jie led 19-13. The prize money for the champion and runner-up of the Southwest Chess Championship is 250,000 yuan and 120,000 yuan respectively.