On November 28, Beijing time, the final of the 28th Samsung Auto Insurance Cup World Go Masters was held at the Samsung Training Institute in Goyang, South Korea. Ding Hao narrowly defeated Xie Erhao, won the Samsung Cup for the first time 2-1, and won the world championship after the LG Cup, becoming the only double champion this year.
Ding Hao defeated Hong Xingzhi, Kim Seung-jin, and Kim Myung-hoon in this Samsung Cup, and stubbornly reversed Park Tinghuan in the semifinals, eliminating 4 Korean masters in a row. Successfully met Xie Erhao in the finals, helping China win the championship and runner-up of the Samsung Cup for the sixth time.
In the first game of the finals, Ding Hao won quickly. In the second game, Xie Erhao reversed and equalized, and the two sides ushered in a tiebreaker. In the end, Ding Hao was superior and won the championship.
Ding Hao is a 21-level journalism student in the School of Humanity of our university, and has made many achievements since entering the school. In China, he has won the championship of the Advocate Chess Cup, the National Chess Battle, the Grand Chess Tournament, and the CCTV Rapid Chess Tournament. On the world stage, he won two world championship trophies in a year, the LG Cup and the Samsung Cup, and is the only chess player to win two championships this year, and he has also become a new generation leader of Chinese Go.
