Twenty-two year-old Liu Shizen upset the odds to take the 7th Xinren Wang title - China's equivalent to Japan's Shinjin O, or King of the New Stars - in two games on 20 and 21 February 2000. His opponent was Ding Wei 7-dan, two years younger but destined to become an "old star" soon with promotion to 8-dan.
In the semi-finals of this quickplay event, Ding beat Qiu Jun 5-dan (still only 17) and Liu beat Wang Yuhui 6-dan.
Here are the final games in downloadable sgf format.
This is a quickplay tournament based in Shanghai and Beijing, being sponsored by the Chinese Go Association (Zhongguo Qiyuan) in the capital and the Shanghai Go Association (Shanghai Qiyuan).
First prize is 10,000 yuan and second prize 5,000 yuan.
It is for men and women players under 30 and 7-dan or below, including amateurs. It is the only completely open tournament in China.
The final stage is now a 32-person knockout tournament, and the final is now a best-of-three (from Term 2 onwards). In the first two terms the final stage was for just 24 players, being a knockout in which 16 players played in Round 1 and were then joined in Round 2 by 8 seeds.
Komi is 2.75 points.
Xinren Wang is the same as the Japanese Shinjin O and means King of the New Stars.
