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Special correspondent Gu Ke reported that on August 12, the first game of the five-game final of the 10th Yingshi Cup World Professional Go Championship ended at the Chongqing Niccolo Hotel. Ichiri Ryo, 9th dan, played with black and won by 1 point in 341 moves against Xie Ke, 9th dan. The two sides will rest tomorrow and will play the second game on August 14.

There are 58 participants in this year's Yingshi Cup. The runner-up of the previous year, Xie Ke, directly entered the top 16, and entered the semi-finals again after winning consecutive games against Jin Zhenhui, Yuan Shengzhen, and Xu Haohong. In the three-game semi-final, he defeated Xu Haohong 2-0 and advanced to the finals for two consecutive competitions; Ichiri Ryo, started from the first round and won consecutive games against Wang Yuanjun, Tu Xiaoyu, Liu Yuhang, and Xu Jiayang, and then reversed the game to defeat Ke Jie 2-1 in the three-game semi-final to reach the final of the world championship for the first time.

The two had met four times before, with Xie Ke leading with an absolute advantage of 4-0; in the semi-finals of the last Yingshi Cup, Xie Ke defeated Ichiri Ryo 2-0.

Xie Ke, who guessed the odd and even numbers correctly, asked if he would guess the first move again in the third game. After receiving the answer that he would not guess the first move in the first four games, he decisively chose the white pieces. In the early stage, Xie Ke made agile moves, striving for the first move everywhere. After leaving some lingering moves in the upper left and upper right corners, he built a big pattern in the lower part of the board, luring the black pieces to invade and eliminate.