South Korea has won six times in its career until the 9th tournament, when Shin Jin-seo 9 dan won the championship, continuing its status as the most winning country. China has won three times so far, and Japan and Taiwan have never held the trophy. 스포츠토토핫 At the time of the establishment of the Ngsi Cup, no one could imagine that South Korea would win the most championships.
Taiwanese tycoon Ying Chang-chi is said to have created the world's highest go competition in 1988 in hopes that his favorite Chinese Go star Nie Wei-ping will win. In terms of nationality, the first drivers to participate in the Ngsi Cup, in which 16 people were invited, were five from China, five from Japan, three from Taiwan, two from South Korea and one from the United States.
However, when classified as affiliated origin, the number of articles from Japan was the highest with 10, the number from China was five, and the number from Korea was only one from Cho Hoon-hyun 9 dan. The championship was expected to be contested by Chinese and Japanese knights, and South Korea was virtually the best man.
However, Cho Hoon-hyun, who played alone as a representative of the Korea Baduk Association, won the surprise championship by defeating Nie Weiping with three wins and two losses after reaching the final. South Korea, which gained confidence, won the second time Seo Bong-soo, the third time Yoo Chang-hyuk, and the fourth time Lee Chang-ho, achieving the feat of winning four consecutive tournaments.
In the fifth tournament, Chang Hao 9 dan, who became the chairman of the China Crisis Association, beat Choi Chul-han 9 dan to win his first championship, but in the sixth tournament, Choi Chul-han beat Lee Chang-ho to win the championship. Since then, Park Jung-hwan, a 9th grader, has advanced to the finals twice in a row in the 7th and 8th tournaments, but lost to Fan Ting-yu and Tang Wei-hsing, respectively, and handed over the trophy to China.
It was Shin Jin-seo who regained the pride of Korean Go, which lost the trophy to China for the second time in a row. Thanks to Shin Jin-seo's performance, South Korea regained the Eungsi Cup hegemony for the first time in 14 years, continuing its feat of winning six times, the most in its career.