Netflix is on the table again.
The reason is that there is a scene in the hit drama "The Queen's Gambit" in which Georgian chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili is described as a Russian, and even the first female chess player to receive the title of Grandmaster is magically changed to "never play chess with a male chess player".
However, in 1968, the New York Times reported that Predashvili had defeated seven male players
Netflix's disregard for facts, gross sexism and demeaning of the characters made Prudashvili very angry and decisively took him to court.
In fact, it is not easy for a female chess player to obtain the title of Grandmaster, and in China, there is also a very powerful chess player, "the world's first female Go nine-dan player" - Rui Yiwei (often falsely referred to as Rui Naiwei).
She is the first female chess player in ancient and modern times, but in the golden period of her career, she encountered the "Three Gorges Incident" that is now outrageous, helpless to leave the roots after 21 years, and the 57-year-old is still playing for the national team, and her life is worthy of a legend.
Rui was born in Shanghai in 1963.
He began to learn chess at the age of 11, and at the age of 15, he and his brother were selected for the Shanghai Go team. In 1980, at the age of 17, Rui Yiwei successfully entered the national team with a good result of 4th place in the women's group of the National Go Individual Competition.
But in the first few years of the national team, Rui's go road was not easy.
Externally, the only international competition at that time was the "China-Japan Go Match", according to the rules of the game, each side sent 7 men and 1 woman a total of 8 players to compete. As the only female chess player, Rui Yiwei won 7 consecutive matches in the 1982 tournament.
However, the following year, Japan no longer sent female players to play, and Rui Alsouwei also lost the only female chess player.
Internally, the national women's team in the 1980s was full of talents, and in the women's group of the national individual competition from 1982 to 1985, Rui Yiwei lost to his teammates for four consecutive years and was jokingly called "the second oldest of the millennium".
Under the internal and external difficulties, is it "lying flat"? Or do you jump out of the "inner roll" to compete with male chess players for a place?
Rui chose the latter, and she decided to fight "not just as a female chess player, but as a male chess player or a genderless chess player."
Twenty-something is the age when girls love to dress up, but Rui Weiwei is partial to "not love red makeup and love arms", and has stuck himself in Go. As a female chess player with the longest training time every day, Rui Yiwei trained during the day and played chess with male chess players at night, which can be said that where there is a chess game, there is her figure.
Other female chess players are thin-skinned, and they can't stand being scolded for "stinky chess", but Rui Weiwei is not only not annoyed, but also chases after the coach and asks what to "scold" her, which move can be improved.
Not only is the training on par with the male chess players, during the break time, Rui Yiwei also began to play with the male chess players, even if she could only help keep the goal at the beginning, even if she was only one hundred or sixty-three, less than a hundred pounds, she often could not grab the ball, and she could exercise her perseverance from this process.
Rui Weiwei and her husband
Finally, in 1986, Rui Yixue was humiliated by the "Millennium Old Two" and won the national individual championship in the women's group. It was also from that year that she won four consecutive championships.
In June 1988, in the dan competition against male chess players, Rui Yiwei passed the pass and was about to rise to the ninth dan (the highest rank of professional players, there are very few chess players who can reach this position), and at the age of 25, she became the only female nine dan in the world, which also marked the entry of Chinese women's Go into the "Rui Wei era".
However, Rui Yiwei, who has achieved unprecedented achievements, has encountered a turning point in his career.
Rui Qiwei, who fulfilled his wish, spent a long period of uncertain time and finally decided to leave the national team, and all this began with the famous "Three Gorges Incident".
In the 1987 Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, there was a rule that now seemed outrageous — female chess players could not go to the male chess player's room.
However, on a rest day during the game, Rui Andiwei and Zhang Xuan gathered in the room of a Japanese male chess player to play chess, and the door of the door and the opposite room were open, and several chess players were watching them play chess.
"One afternoon, when Zhang Xuan, Noriki Iida, and Toshiya Imamura returned from a tour, Ita suggested playing badminton. It was too hot for everyone to be interested, so Itada suggested playing fast chess again. At that time, Zhang Xuan and I said, "Then go down in the corridor." But the light in the corridor was very dim, and Ida said, "How did this go?" "So we naturally went to their room and forgot about the rules of the team." ——Rui Yiwei, "Tianya Chess Player"
While several chess obsessives were playing, the phone rang suddenly, and Rui Yiwei suddenly realized that things were not good, and they had violated discipline. Rui Yiwei was disqualified from the national hand competition that year, and Zhang Xuan was disqualified from the preliminary round of the Chess King Tournament.
In the year-end summary report of the Training Bureau, this matter was more characterized as "female chess players misbehaving", and many people pointed fingers at them behind their backs.
This was an insult to the girls of that era, at that age, who attached great importance to their reputation.
I always thought that Zhang Xuan and I went to the Japanese male chess player's room just to play chess, and it was just a matter of being fair. Our fault was simply a violation of the rules of the chess team. Since the violation of the regulations, it is natural to be criticized, but I am not convinced by such a heavy punishment for this. The young girl is carrying such a burden, and she really feels that there is no way out.
In addition, the male players at that time had two opportunities to participate in the selection competition, while the female chess players only had one chance, which was far less than that of the male players of the same level. Under all kinds of pressure, Rui Qiwei had no choice but to leave the national team.
Because he had not yet left the Chinese Weiqi Association, when he was in Japan, Rui Could only participate in one or two official tournaments every year, and the rest of the time he could only watch others play chess at the Japanese Chess Academy.
27 to 36 years old is the most valuable career of a chess player, but in this long decade, Rui Has been in a state of loss without chess.
Finally, in 1992, the Ying Cup, the highest honor in the chess world and known as the "Go Olympiad", was held in Tokyo, and Rui Waswell was invited to participate. Rui Qiwei, who had waited hard for this opportunity, stopped teaching chess from ten months before the start of the game and concentrated on preparing for the game.
This time, Rui Weiwei lian ke ri and Han ming generals, achieved the results of the four finals. You know, to this day, this is still the best result achieved by a female chess player in the World Series.
It is said that "in the history of Go, there are many male players in the style of fighting, but all of them are obsessed with fighting and eager to win, and may not be as belligerent as Rui Qiwei." ”
Because of his fierce chess style, Rui Yiwei was once known as "Tattoo witch" and "Exterminator Tai".
The famous South Korean player Lee Chang-ho, who later dominated the world, that is, the prototype of the Korean drama "Please Answer 1988" Choi Taek, learned the power of Rui At the Ying's Cup , when he was only 17 years old, he was beaten in the rain of Tokyo and his father called and cried that he "didn't want to play Go anymore".
In 1999, Rui officially became a guest chess player at the Korea Chess Academy.
Eight months after returning as a professional chess player, Rui Yiwei achieved unprecedented good results: a record of 33 wins and 6 losses, a winning rate of 84.62%, and won the first place award of the Korean Chess Academy in 1999.
The following year, the longest and highest status of Korean Go was launched.
At the peak of the "Ten Years of Korean Wave" in the Go world, the younger brother Lee Chang-ho, who was beaten to find his father, had become the first master of South Korea who won 11 world championship trophies, but against Rui Yiwei, he was still beaten and conceded.
Two weeks later, Rui Yiwei defeated South Korea's "Emperor of Go" Cho Hwan-hyun 2-1, "the first female player to become the world chess hegemon", "the world's first female chess player to win an important chess championship", "the first female chess player to defeat the men's active world champion in the final of the game", this big news not only caused a sensation in the chess world, but even the then President of South Korea, Kim Dae-jung, rarely sent a congratulatory message to the Korean Chess Academy.
Rui Weiwei and her husband
Since 2005, Rui has occupied the title of South Korean women's celebrity champion for 7 years.
For Cho Hye-lian, a talented south Korean female chess player, the 14 runners-up in her life were all due to Rui Weiwei, and what was even more distressing was that she could not find any of Rui Weiwei's weaknesses at all - "I have to admit that she is the greatest chess player so far, she is ten times stronger than me." ”
During the interview, the reporter found that rui's bookshelf only had a runner-up medal. In this regard, Rui Qiwei only said, "All the championship medals are in the storage room." I only look at the runner-up medals when I play chess. ”
Such a legendary female chess player, after 21 years of exile, finally chose to return to the roots.
She said that when she competed in the next game of chess, she would be more stable in her heart when she competed for China.
In the 1980s, Yu Bin, the head coach of the national Go team, was only 42 years old, and he felt that he could only be a drag oil bottle and turned into a coach; now the weitan is the world of young people, and it is difficult to maintain the peak of his career at the age of 30.
And now that she is fifty-eight years old, she is still fighting on the field, which is not a great miracle.
From 2012 to 2017, Rui Yiwei won the championship four times in the top women's chess battles in China, such as the Wisdom Games, the Jianqiao Cup, and the National Games.
In 2014, 51-year-old Rui played against 22-year-old South Korean chess player Oh Jeong-eun. After two hours, or four hours of competition, each side entered a tense reading of one minute and one step. The reporter at the scene was almost dizzy just by watching the chess pieces on the side, but Rui Yiwei fought for 7 hours and finally won the game.
At the 2017 National Games, the 54-year-old Rui Became the oldest champion in the history of the National Games; in the same year, she won the Jianqiao Cup China Women's Go Open Championship, setting a record for the oldest professional Go tournament in China.
In 2018, Rui Yiwei was selected for the Chinese women's Go national team with the first place in the selection competition, and in the women's Go League, he killed the famous 97-year-old young player Yu Zhiying with only 140 hands.
A few days ago, at the 14th National Games, Rui Yiwei and teammate Hu Yaoyu defeated their opponents and won the first gold in the Go project of the National Games...
Looking back on this life, Rui Yiwei never thought of giving up playing chess.
As the first generation of female chess players in New China, Rui Yiwei has a calculation power and mid-game combat effectiveness that is not inferior to that of any male chess player of the same generation. At its peak, it remained at the top 30 or even the top 20 in the world, which is a gap that the strongest female chess players can only barely enter the top 100 and cannot be surpassed.
As a role model, she not only led the young people of China, but also led the sustainable development of Korean women's Go when she was in the Korean chess academy, and even became the strongest in the world for a time. A Korean female chess player who has never won a world chess championship before has won a total of 10 championships after Rui Yiwei came to South Korea.
Who is the strongest chess player in history is controversial, but the strongest female chess player in history is undoubtedly Rui Yiwei Jiudan.
The first female chess player in ancient and modern times broke through the shackles of the system and female identity and restored the purest World of Go.
Breaking out of the siege of male chess players, the old man is gradually declining, but she still maintains the momentum of cutting thorns and thorns, and competes in all directions in the chess world.
We look forward to Rui Lao continuing to write a legend.