This year due to the COVID-19 outbreak some of of the international professional tournaments, such as Chunlan Cup and Ing Cup, decided to change the format to online games.

On July 29, Ilya Shikshin 3p (Russia) played against Yu Zhengqi 8p (Japan) in the first round of the 13th Chunlan Cup. The game took place on the Fox Go Server.

Although Ilya seemed to have a promising position at start, his opponent outplayed him in the following complicated middle-game fight.

Report by Artem