Qian Yuping, who is flourishing
Qian Yuping (born October 6, 1966) was born in Shanghai and was praised as a "genius teenager" by Hideyuki Fujisawa, a Japanese chess player. Qian Yuping's chess style is thick and solid, and he is a late-mover, and is nicknamed "blunt knife" by the Chinese chess world. Qian Yuping began to learn chess with his father at the age of 4, followed the famous teacher Qiu Bairui at the age of 6, was selected for the national team at the age of 13, becoming the only special junior chess player in the national team, winning the Shanghai Adult Group Go Championship at the age of 13, and winning the National Go Individual Championship in 1988.
In 1989, he was awarded the first "Chess King".
In the fifth Sino-Japanese ring, he won consecutive victories over Sakata and Takemiya, and personally ended this ring. At this time, Qian Yuping's Go career can be described as a high song.
In 1990, Qian Yuping defeated Zhao Zhixun, Cao Xuanxuan, Kobayashi Jue and other top masters in international competitions.
Hewu Palace resumed after the war
In April 1990, in the 5th China-Japan Go Tournament in tokyo, Qian Yuping faced Einan Sakata Kudan in Japan. Sakata's chess style is extremely sharp, good at attacking and curing orphans, and is known as a "razor". In the competition, Qian Yuping took the battalion step by step, competing for the field in various parts, and the knife cut the meat and generally continued to raid Bantian. In the end, Qian Yuping won with four and a half eyes. The headline of China Sports News also changed to "Qian Yuping blunt knife slash Bantian".
The Fujitsu Cup defeated Cho Hyun's Qian Yuping
But on July 30, 1991, Qian Yuping went out to compete in the fourth Fujitsu Cup World Go Championship, 24-year-old Qian Yuping defeated a number of super-first-class chess players in a row, all the way through the level, in the semi-finals to defeat Koichi Kobayashi, to reach the final, when everyone thought that Qian Yuping was likely to become China's first Go world champion, Qian Yuping suddenly found Nie Weiping, the head coach of the Go team, said that he was not in good health and gave up the game. The leaders and teammates were shocked and surprised and incomprehensible.
After a two-year recuperation, Qian Yuping defeated Lee Chang-ho in the middle of the 1994 Asian Cup TV Go Tournament to enter the final, but his condition recurred, he gave up the game again, and completely withdrew from the professional chess world. Li Changhao later said in an interview, "Qian Yuping's chess style is unique, soft and thick, and the calculation of attack and killing is very accurate, and I have thought about this game for a long time and I can't see any flaws in him, which makes me feel that I can't start."
In 2018, Qian Yuping suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage
Over the years, the Chinese Go community has been lamenting a topic, if Qian Yuping is still in the chess world, a group of Korean chess players led by Lee Chang-ho will not be so rampant, but why not... how.......
For older Go lovers, the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament is far more exciting than the current Nongsin Ramen Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament. In the first tournament, Wang Jianhong was defeated by Japan's Noriki Iida, and nosebleeds gushed out under unfavorable circumstances, which was a bloody game in the history of Sino-Japanese Go. After five consecutive wins by Jiang Zhujiu, Koichi Kobayashi was invited, and after Kobayashi defeated Jiang Zhujiu, it was Qian Jiudan's turn to play. This game can be said to be a painful game in the center of Qian Jiudan's Go career, although the whole game is subject to people, but Qian Jiudan's style of fighting at that time still caused a great impact on Xiaolin, and in the second half of the chess game, the research room has studied the best moves, as long as Qian Jiudan is right, Xiaolin will be knocked out of the ring, but the result is that Qian Jiudan admits defeat. It is said that Jiang Zhujiu, who lost at that time, was the first to break into the game room, gave Qian Jiudan the well-researched moves, and then questioned him why he conceded defeat. Qian Jiuduan did not answer, and later he disclosed this matter in the book "Qian Yuping Go Self-Combat Hundred Games", giving the explanation that he really did not find the means to win the game at that time, plus the overall disadvantage, and did not expect to have a chance to win. My understanding is that this naturally shows Qian Jiuduan's deep disappointment and even despair at that time, and there will be such a move, but I prefer to believe that it is this incident that gives Qian Jiuduan a deep stimulus, which on the one hand may make him work hard and eventually become a generation of masters, but on the other hand, it may also leave an indelible shadow in his heart, and perhaps the beginning of the tragedy of his life.
Now Qian Yuping teaches Go online
But what exactly caused Qian Yuping to suddenly collapse when his personal Go career was at its peak? The world of Go has a variety of opinions, which has become a difficult mystery in the chess world.