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Hara: Scenery on board / 52 Go Toshiya Imamura 9th Dan Goethe's Maxim, Repeated / Osaka
From: Daily News
Author: Nishin ToiHimasa
Translation and Finishing: Making Excuses for Quiet Two Highlights tomorrow
Five years ago, he published his first book entitled "The Idea of the Thickest Chess in the World" ("Kokuichi Ichihouい碁の考え方"). With thick as the background, even if it is as thick as demolition, it will be dug into the battle, and even if it is considered a "foolish triangle", it is often seen in the "Imamura world". In 2018, Toshi Imamura also became the 23rd player in history to achieve 1,000 wins, while Chimyushi ranked third in terms of winning percentage. As one of the top chess players in the Kansai Chess Academy, Toshi Imabari also said: "In the future, I will play everything that I have accumulated before."
Born in Nara Prefecture, Toshiya Imamura is the fourth of my five children and the third son. When he was in the 4th grade of elementary school, his brother, who was a year older than him, began to teach him Go, and then played chess with his father who was an amateur 1 dan every day, and after 1 year, his level surpassed them. Then I went to the nearby high-dan chess player for guidance, and when I entered junior high school, my strength had reached the amateur 5 to 6 dan. However, there are strong middle players in the strong middle school, and they are ravaged by their opponents in the competitions in the area that they participated in in junior high school. At this time, the class teacher's sentence: "Do you try to become a professional chess player?" This sentence also changed his life. In the first year of junior high school, he became a student of the Kansai Chess Academy, and in March of the second year of junior high school, he became a professional chess player. "My teacher was also at level 4, but after seeing me become a professional chess player, he said, 'I'm relieved about this.'" Toshi Imamura also recalls the past of that year.
In 1984, at the age of 18, he became the first chess player in the Kansai Chess Academy to win the rookie King Battle. In the same year, in the fast chess tournament, he won the championship after defeating Noriki Iida in the final. When I asked, "I thought it was only a matter of time before I got the title," but Toshi Imamura laughed and replied, "That would be a big mistake." That year, Eda Kiki had already entered the celebrity war circle, and was the youngest chess player to enter the celebrity war cycle circle at that time, and since then won the celebrity game 4 consecutive championships, becoming a big chess player who has won a total of 12 titles. "It feels like the gap between me and Noriki Iida is getting wider and wider, and my mentality has become anxious." When he was less than 30 years old, he also experienced a period of lows.
But at this time, the coaching chess with amateur chess players gave him an unprecedented experience. When making sub-chess with amateur chess players, although the layout stage must be an unfavorable situation for starting, at this time, you will not choose to hang the corner but choose to play directly and play the chess you want to play the most. Even the timing of "eating" will be considered again and again. "In the past, my chess pieces were all written in one hand, but I didn't actually understand the true meaning of that hand. After everything started from scratch, I realized that I had not even laid a good foundation." On this basis, Imabari Toshi also said: "If you add another hand of chess to the live chess, it will be a loss." Even if it is the connection of the chess pieces, even if it is a short way after the contact battle, there will be a world of separation. So rather than talking about the layout, I think that in this kind of place, it will directly affect the victory or defeat. So when I started reinforcing that, I started to pay attention to the connection between the pieces, and then it evolved into the current style of chess."
There used to be one challenge each for the Holy War and the Battle of the Throne. In the circle of circulation, the Benyinfang War is 2, the Chess Holy War is 4, and the Celebrity War is 3. He also had two NHK Cup runners-up experiences. Although it showed the strength of the top chess players, it has not won a single title so far. "Facing Mr. Yoshio Ishida, who has a solid chess style, I have never won or lost 9 consecutive sets in a row, which is not a disagreement between me and him, I am very bad at facing a chess player who is not reluctant to play chess. I don't think that's why I can't get the title. My sense of chess still has a lot of likes and dislikes in it. Is this hand my favorite or what I don't like. Sometimes I assert that this chess type is not good or something. Alas, of course, this kind of thinking sometimes has good results." In this way, Imamura Began to analyze himself.
In March of this year, Toshiya Imamura was 55 years old. What are the goals ahead? Masaki Takemiya, who celebrated his 70th birthday on January 1 this year, reached a career 1,200 wins on January 14, but Toshiya Imamura said: "The number of wins really doesn't matter to me." Then he took out a book from his bag, and from the state of the book, he could see that it had been turned over by him.
"For people who like to think, the things that can climb to the top will be pursued to the end." If you can't reach the top, quietly respect them." (Goethe's Maxims)
"I kind of like that. I feel like Go has done what it can. When I was playing the chess piece of the book, I felt that when I was a child, the feeling of the pendulum score being now was completely different. In fact, the chess game itself has not changed, but it is only changing. I still think that's interesting. ”