Yang Dingxin

Yang Dingxin (Chinese: 杨鼎新; pinyin: Yáng Dǐngxīn; born 19 October 1998[2]) is a Chinese professional Go player.

Yang Dingxin
Full nameYang Dingxin
Chinese杨鼎新
Born (1998-10-19) 19 October 1998
Zhengzhou, Henan, China[1]
ResidenceChina
Turned pro2008
Rank9 dan
AffiliationChinese Weiqi Association

Biography

Yang Dingxin was born in 1998 in Zhengzhou, Henan.[1] As a young child, he lived in Bingcha in Rudong County, Nantong, Jiangsu and in Zhengzhou, and moved to Beijing when he was 6.[3] His father, an amateur Go player, introduced him to Go when he was 5 years old.[1] He earned professional status through the qualification tournament in 2008, when he was 9 years and 9 months old, breaking the record for the youngest professional Go player.[4]

He won the 12th Ricoh Cup in 2012 at the age of 13 years and 6 months, which broke the record for the youngest player to win a Chinese professional tournament.[5][6] He also won the Weifu Fangkai Cup in 2013, and the Changqi Cup in 2014.

He was the winner of the South-West Qiwang in 2016 and again in 2017.[1]

In 2019, he won the 23rd LG Cup, his first international championship, defeating Shi Yue 2–1 in the finals.[1] He was promoted to 9 dan for the victory.[7]

He won seven consecutive games for China in the 21st Nongshim Cup (2019–2020). He was finally eliminated in his eighth game by Japan's Iyama Yuta.[8] China went on to win the tournament.

He won the Tianyuan in 2020.[9] In 2021, he was the South-West Qiwang winner for the third time.[10]

Promotion record
Rank Year Notes
1 dan 2008
2 dan 2010
3 dan 2012
4 dan
5 dan
6 dan 2017 [11]
7 dan 2018 [12]
8 dan 2019
9 dan 2019

Career record
  • 2010: 28 wins, 11 losses[13]

Titles and runners-up
Domestic
TitleWinsRunners-up
RICOH Xinxiu Cup20112012
Ricoh Cup2012
Total21

References
  1. "21岁的杨鼎新：仍是当年最值得期待的少年棋手", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2019-11-26
  2. "国内赛最年轻四强棋手诞生 杨鼎新：老天眷顾我", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2010-09-27
  3. "南通如东小将杨鼎新获第23届LG杯世界围棋冠军", cri.cn (in Chinese), 2019-02-19
  4. "2008定段赛新初段一览 9岁杨鼎新打破年龄最小记录", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2008-07-24
  5. "中国围棋，又多了一位世界冠军（体育大看台）", people.com.cn (in Chinese), 2019-02-15
  6. "13 year old Yang Dingxin wins 12th Ricoh Cup", Go Game Guru, 2012-04-09, archived from the original on 2016-12-29
  7. "LG杯世界围棋棋王战收盘 中国棋手杨鼎新首获世界冠军", xinmin.cn (in Chinese), 2019-02-14
  8. "The Power Report: Nong Shim Cup: Yang wins seven in a row; Hane wins 1,000th game; Shibano leads in Oza", American Go E-Journal, 2019-12-04
  9. "天元赛决胜局连笑告负 杨鼎新成第9位"天元"", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2020-12-03
  10. "杨鼎新第三次加冕"西南棋王"，盛赞成都是"福地"", sohu.com (in Chinese), 2021-04-26
  11. "2017年8月中国围棋协会职业棋手升段公告", qipai.org.cn, 2017-09-07, archived from the original on 2018-01-27
  12. 最新职业棋手等级分柯洁连续33个月第一 下月恐失榜首 (in Chinese), Tencent Sports, 2018-06-01
  13. "Chinese win-loss 2010". igokisen.web.fc2.com. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
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