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
Medal record
Men's Go
Representing  China
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou Men's team

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

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]

In a controversial incident in December 2022, Yang publicly suggested that Chinese Go player Li Xuanhao cheated using AI. Yang made the cheating allegation at the time of a Chunlan Cup semifinal game between Li Xuanhao and Shin Jinseo, which Li won. Li had also defeated Yang himself in the quarterfinals of the same tournament. The Chinese Weiqi Association ruled that there was no evidence of cheating, and penalized Yang with a six-month partial suspension from competition. As a notable exception to the suspension, Yang was still allowed to play in the LG Cup final in January–February 2023, which he lost to Ding Hao.[11][12][13]

Promotion record

Rank Year Notes
1 dan 2008
2 dan 2010
3 dan 2012
4 dan
5 dan
6 dan 2017 [14]
7 dan 2018 [15]
8 dan 2019
9 dan 2019

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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. ↑ "无证据公开质疑李轩豪作弊 杨鼎新被停赛半年", The Beijing News (in Chinese), 2022-12-30 – via sina.com.cn
  12. ↑ "中 바둑 2위, AI 치팅 썼나… "직 걸고 붙자" 양딩신의 분노", The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean), 2022-12-23
  13. ↑ "22岁丁浩LG杯夺冠！00后棋手也是时候担起大任了", Xinmin Evening News (in Chinese), 2023-02-02
  14. ↑ "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
  15. ↑ 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
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