Satorian wrote:Can anyone here tell us more about Zhao Chenyu 5p? Seems like a great performance. Any background on him?
Zhao Chenyu (赵晨宇) was born in June 1999 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Started to study go at 6, won national children's tournament in 2011 and was promoted to amateur 6d. Made pro same year at age 12(he was youngest pro in China at the time). Participated in C-League in 2012 and won 7 in a row (C-League only has 7 rounds so he was undefeated at second board), including beating world champion Zhou Junxuan. In 2014 he joined A-League team Daliang Shangfang as a back up. His team mates included Ke Jie, Park Jungwhan, Mi Yuting and Tang Weixing (as you would probably expect team Daliang won the championship that year). In 2015 Daliang team moved to Jiangsu and he has been a member of Team Jiangsu since then.
In 2014 he was involved in the famous 'illegal ko capture' incident in the 4th round of the 19th LG Cup prelims. Zhao complained to referee that his opponent Hong Kipyo captured a ko without making a ko threat move. Hong insisted that he did make ko threat move and refused to go over the game, claiming that review of game would unduly delay the ending time of the game. Zhao eventually agreed to continue the game as was and won the game by 1.5 points.
In 2017 Zhao beat Shi Yue in the first round of A-League at board 4 and was moved to captain's board in the next two rounds. He beat Ke Jie in the 2nd round and Zhou Ruiyang in the 3rd round. In round 4 he was moved back to board 4 and lost to Liu Xing 7p ( If stayed at captain's board he would have played Lee Sedol 9p.).
Zhao's teachers think he has very solid fundamentals and favors thick moves.
Zhao Chenyu 5p
