In the history of the development of Chinese Go, Ma Xiaochun is a top master and famous figure that cannot be bypassed. I personally believe that its outstanding contribution to the development of Chinese Go is second only to Nie Weiping and Chen Zude among chess players.
Ma Xiaochun, born on August 26, 1964 in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province (now Shengzhou City), was promoted to Jiudan in November 1983 at the age of 19, becoming the fourth Chinese Go player after Chen Zude, Wu Weisheng and Nie Weiping, and the youngest nine-dan player in China at that time, serving as the head coach of the Chinese Weiqi team from 2005 to 2009.
Ma Xiaochun nine paragraphs
Ma Xiaochun's most significant record, and the greatest contribution to Chinese Go, is undoubtedly the 6th Toyo Securities Cup and the 8th Fujitsu Cup in 1995, becoming China's first Go world champion and double champion. Since the inception of the World Series in 1988, we have been looking forward to the stars and the moon for seven years, looking through the autumn water, before looking forward to the first world championship title, so Ma Xiaochun can be described as a great achievement and irrefutable. And Ma Xiaochun's record for the double was not broken by Coulee until 13 years later, in 2008.
Ma Jiudan's outstanding achievement also lies in taking over Nie Weiping, becoming the head coach of the Chinese national Go team, and achieving breakthrough achievements in office. In July 2005, Ma Xiaochun was appointed as the head coach of the Chinese Go team through competition. The coaching team includes Liu Xiaoguang 9 dan, Zhang Wendong 9 dan, Wu Zhaoyi 9 dan, Shao Weigang 9 dan and Wu Yulin 6 dan. Ma Xiaochun proposed a new training plan and regulations: the players of the national team will be divided into three groups for training according to the needs of the grade and the recent competition; the training time is also fully arranged, monday morning self-study, afternoon nongshim cup competition; Tuesday three-hour package dry system confrontation per side; Wednesday morning group study, afternoon nongshim cup format competition; Thursday morning fast chess competition, afternoon collective research... In order to adapt chess players to playing against Japanese and Korean players, all training matches adopt the Japanese and Korean competition format.
Ma Xiaochun and Luo Xiehe were apprentices
At that time, the Chinese chess players' achievements in the world championships were not satisfactory, he took this as a breakthrough point to deeply explore the potential of chess players, Chang Hao, Luo Xihe, Gu Li in his tenure in the world competition successively won, so that Chinese Go once again raised its eyebrows, and Ma Xiaochun as the leader of the national team played an immeasurable role. In 2006, his gaozu LuoChahe won the championship with the first victory over Lee Chang-ho in the three-star cup final three pieces of chess; Gu Li won the LG Cup chess championship; and the first China-Korea Go Tournament won the Chinese side. In 2005 and 2006, the Chinese women's Go team won the second consecutive championship of the China-Japan-South Korea Women's Go Tournament. In 2007, Chang Hao won the Samsung Cup and Gu Li won the Chunlan Cup. In 2008, the Chinese team won the Nongshim Cup China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Go Tournament for the first time. In February 2009, Ma Xiaochun lost to Zhejiang compatriot Yu Bin in an secret ballot and ceased to be the head of the coaching team of the national Go team.
Ma Xiaochun left a record for consecutive hegemony in Chinese chess battles: 13 consecutive championships in celebrity battles, which have not been broken so far. From the 2nd in 1989 to the 14th in 2001, he defeated Liu Xiaoguang (4 times), Nie Weiping, Yu Bin, Cao Dayuan, Zhang Wendong, Luo Xianhe (2 times), Chang Hao (2 times), Shao Weigang and other masters in a row, winning the Celebrity Battle laurels a total of 13 times. This record has never been recorded in China, and I am afraid that it is difficult to have any comers. In the world chess world, it is second only to the record of 16 consecutive championships of Cao Xuanxuan's overlord battle, and the number of consecutive championships ranks second. The second domestic lianba is Chen Yaoye's Tianyuan Zhan Eight Lianba, which is far from Ma Xiaochun's terror record.
Ma Xiaochun Chang hao fought fiercely
In addition to facing Li Changhao, a bitter hand who is both Born Yu and He Shengliang, it should be said that Ma Xiaochun is generally full of sails in chess battles, but his marriage is full of thorns and bumps. Ma Xiaochun had three marriages before and after, and his first wife was an amateur chess player. In 1985, Ma Xiaochun met Xu Yan, a 16-year-old female chess player from Nankai University, in the summer of 1991 Xu Yan just graduated from college and the two married, and in 1995 Xu Yan graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and went abroad to study at New York University. Because the two people are strong people, coupled with the gathering of less and more, and finally helpless to break up. In 2006, Ma Xiaochun secretly remarried, and his second wife was from Chengdu and did not play Go, but this second marriage ended. On August 18, 2013, Ma Xiaochun ushered in the third spring, and married Duan Yuhan, a bride from Guiyang, in Beijing, Duan Yuhan is an outsider in the Go circle, and the two are harmonious and love each other.
Finally, let's talk about the external image of Ma Xiaochun. Generally speaking, chess players are mostly not good at words, and the most typical ones, such as Lee Chang-ho, give people an impression of mu ne. Ma Xiaochun is no exception, there is a feeling of rejection of people thousands of miles away, very cold, inaccessible. To this end, people in the chess circles have commented on him, and we will look at Chen Zude's evaluation of him: Ma Xiaochun's personality is very prominent, like playing Go, he likes to be free; Rui Naiwei's view is that he seems to be more affected by emotions; there is an article in the Beijing Evening News that says: Ma Xiaochun is nicknamed "Demon Knife", his chess style is strange and changeable, and he is a maverick.
Mr. and Mrs. Ma Xiaochun
Today, Ma Xiaochun is 57 years old, but he is still working in the chess world, but mainly as a coach. Occasional participation, but also some invitational competitions, exchange competitions, multiplayer competitions and other non-first-line competitions. We look forward to his continued efforts for China to remain at the top of the world of Go, and we wish him a happy family and a happy life!