2023 Senior vs Women’s Baduk League Champions Cup
Seogwipo Chilsimni, Goyang Special City won 2-1

(Hangame Baduk = Reporter Han Chang-gyu) The women’s league was strong this time too. The match between the senior Go League champions and the Women’s Go League champions, which is held every year under the name of the Champions Cup, has been won by the women’s league for six consecutive years.

At the 2023 Senior vs. Women’s Baduk League Champions Cup held at the Baduk TV Studio from noon on the 29th, the 2022 NH Nonghyup Bank Women’s League winning team, Seogwipo Chilsimni, defeated the 2022 Pyeon Gangbae Senior League winning team, Goyang Special City 2-1.

In the two games that started simultaneously according to the pre-submitted order, the captain of each team took the victory. First, Seogwipo Chilsimni’s No. 1 Cho Seung-ah, 6th Dan, defeated Goyang City’s No. 4, Lee Young-shin, 6th Dan, and 10 minutes later, Goyang City’s No. 1, Kim Seung-joon, 9th Dan, won a complete victory over Seogupo Chilsimni, No. 2 Nomination Lee Min-jin, 8th Dan.

In the midst of a 1-1 confrontation, the final order announced on the spot was Seogwipo Chilsimni’s 3rd place Kim Yun-yeong 5th Dan and 2nd place Kim Chan-woo 6th Dan from Goyang City. In Baduk, which was the most competitive among the three games, Kim Yun-young, 5th Dan, finished with a 2-and-a-half victory in 250 moves.

In this tournament, which started in 2018, Posco Chemtech, SG Golf, and Buan Gomso Salt of the women’s league defeated KH Energy 2-0 in turn. In the women’s league, Boryeong Mud defeated Wonbong Ruhens 2-1 in 2021, and Samcheok Marine Cable Car defeated Bucheon Fantasia 2-0 in 2022.

This season, Goyang City has a young and strong appearance by significantly lowering the senior league participation age, but it is one step short of winning the first championship of the senior league team.

Seogwipo Chilsimni coach Kim Hye-rim said after the game, “First of all, I am very happy, and it was nice to see the faces after a long time.”크크크벳

Kim Yun-young, 5th Dan, who is about to give birth to her second child, said, “Before I left, I desperately hoped it would end 2-0.”

In addition, Cho Seung-ah, 6th dan, expressed her determination, saying, “I quit playing the national team for a long time and now I am studying at home. Just looking at what Instructor Yoon Young is doing today, I think I can achieve a second consecutive victory in the women’s league.”

The prize money for the 2023 Daebang Construction Cup Champions Cup is 7 million won for the championship and 3 million won for the runner-up. The time limit is 20 minutes for each sale, and the countdown is 40 seconds 5 times. In the meantime, the method of competing for men and women with 3 consecutive matches of 3 out of 2 wins in every game was changed to a single season (3 out of 2 best wins) this year.