The final game 4 of the 22^nd Chinese Mingren Title was held on Jan. 7^th, Gu Li 9p (B) defeated Gu Lingyi 5p by 1.5 points after 311 moves and successfully defended his title by 3:1, this is also Gu Li's 6th consecutive Mingren Title. It is also Gu Li's 33^rd Title.

In the 22^nd Chinese Mingren title best-of-5 final, Gu Li 9p lost the game 1 but he won the games 2, 3 and 4 consecutively, breaking Gu Lingyi 5p's spirit.

As he defended the Mingren Title, Gu Li 9p smiled and said "I think I am comparatively lucky in the Mingren title matches. I won a losing game over Pao Wen Yao at the last time. In this game, there was also a hopeless moment but I was lucky to win as Gu Lingyi fortunately made a small endgame mistake. I won the international baduk championships three times in the first half of the last year but my records in the second half were not very good. I feel good because it ended well as I defended the Mingren Title. I will play even better in 2010."

As defeated, Gu Lingyi 5p said "there were a lot of differences between me and my opponent in terms of skills and experiences. I hope I can make it to the finals again."

After taking the 17^th Mingren Title from Qui Jun 8p, Gu Li 9p won his 6^th consecutive Mingren Title. His opponents were Qui Jun 8p (3:0), Yu Bin 9p (3:0), Zhou He Yang 9p (3:0), Ding Wei 9p (3:0), Pao Wen Yao (3:2) and Gu Lingyi (3:1) and each challenger in each title match was different from one another.

Gu Li 9p played 37 best-of-many-games series in total and he is called ¡®the king of best-of-many-games series' with his records of 30 victories and 7 defeats. He has not done very well in the second half of the last year but as he defended the Mingren Title, it appears that he will recover from a slump.

The Mingren title is sponsored by People's Daily and 3 hours and 60 seconds overtime counting for 5 times are given to each player. The champion and runner-up prize are 100,000 Yuan and 50,000 Yuan respectively. The Longest Winning Record Was Set by Ma Xiao Chun 9p, Winning his 13^th Consecutive Mingren Title (the 2^nd to 14^th).

- Kyungdong Kim, Cyberoro.com