The "record-breaking battle" that has attracted the attention of the Japanese Go community, the seventh game of the 76th Honinbo Final, ended on July 6 and 7 in the "Nine Heavy" match room of the Tokiwa Hotel in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Yuta Iyama, who had held Honinbo for nine years since 2012, won a complete set, achieving a big reversal in the absolutely unfavorable situation of falling behind 1-3 in the first four sets, repelling challenger Shibano Toramaru, who was ten years younger than him, killing the record of "the youngest Buninfang" that had been sealed for fifty years, and also equaling the ten consecutive championship record set by Cho Ji-hoon from 1989 to 1998.
An important game that has attracted much media attention.
In 2020, after losing the momentum but being challenged by the first blow, Shibano Tiger Maru defeated Toshi Sada, Ryuhei Ohnishi, Junshi Tsuruyama, Ichiri Liao, Huang Yizu and Naoki Hane in the 76th Honinfang Battle Cycle Circle, losing only one set to Xu Jiayuan and regaining the right to challenge with a score of 6 wins and 1 loss. On May 11 and 12, Yuta Iyama took the lead, giving people the feeling that "young people are young after all". However, on May 24 and 25, June 1 and 2, and June 10 and 11, in the second and fourth innings, Shino even ate three dragons from Iheyama, which made people suddenly feel "Iizan Laoyi", and the ownership of this year's champion began to tilt towards Shino Tiger Maru.
At the press conference after the game, Yuta Iyama, who posed two "ten" gestures.
But on June 12, Yuta Iyama made an unprecedented debut in the 2021 Huawei Mobile Cup China Go League A immediately after the two-day match, and in the absence of any favor, Li Kesheko became a turning point in his state. On June 21, 22 and 29 and 30, in just ten days, Yuta Iyama scored two consecutive points, during which he won the first set of the Qi Jihad Challenge, and in the blink of an eye, Shibano Tiger Maru changed from the dominant side to the inferior side.
Two chess players pose for a group photo in front of the hot spring inn "Tokiwa".
Group photo vista.
For many years, tokiwa Hotel has been hosting the finals of Japanese Go and Shogi title battles, and photos of the game have been collected and displayed at special counters.
The hotel room "Kuee" was converted into a match room.
Guess before the game.
Shibano Tiger Maru fell to the first son.
On the first morning snack time, Shibano Tiger Maru chose Yamanashi Prefecture's specialty "Shingen Cake" and orange juice. The name of shingen cake comes from the commemoration of Takeda Shingen, the lord of Kai Kingdom (the ancient name of Yamanashi Prefecture), which is actually glutinous rice cake with soybean flour and poured with brown sugar syrup, similar to Chinese rice dumplings.
Yuta Iyama asked for a cup of iced lemon tea, reflecting the beautiful scenery of the competition site.
On the first day, the lunch was the same for two people, including curry udon noodles, inari sushi, lotus root slices, watermelon, and grapes.
It is worth noting that the watermelon in the picture above, a small piece, also carved the watermelon skin into the logo of the Tokiwa Hotel to decorate it.
Day 1 Afternoon Follow-up.
On the first day of afternoon refreshments, Yuta Iyama continued to ice lemon tea, and the fruit plate was "sky-high cherry" Sato Nishiki, Sunshine Rose Grape, and Red Meat Melon.
Shibano Tiger Maru chose chocolate cake and oolong tea. This chocolate cake is exclusive to Tokiwa Hotel and is decorated with sugar-stained preserved fruit from the pear fruits in the hotel's garden.
Yuta Iyama's sealist White 64.
At the sumptuous breakfast at the Tokiwa Inn, Satoshi Kataoka, who spent his first year, could not help but sigh that the luxury level could rank among the top four Hotels in Japan.
Shibano Tiger Maru who actively wiped the chessboard for two consecutive days.
Led by a hotel attendant dressed in kimono, Yuta Iyama walked through the ancient and long corridor towards the beginning of his new chess record.
Yuta Iyama dropped his hand, and at the same time, Satoshi Kataoka, a member of the regent, showed the record of the sealing to Shibano Tiger Maru for confirmation.
The next morning Shibano Tiger Maru's snacks are strawberry cake and iced coffee. Yuta Iyama only needs iced coffee and is no longer pictured.
The next day for lunch, Shibano Tiger Maru eats tempura, soba noodles, inari sushi, salmon salad, fruit platter, and another cup of iced coffee.
Yuta Iyama is a red braised beef rice, mixed salad, corn soup, fruit platter, and oolong tea.
The last food picture of this year's Benyinfang Battle: Both of them chose iced coffee, sunshine rose grapes, giant peak grapes, golden kiwi fruit, oranges, and raspberries for afternoon tea.
In the decider, Yuta Iyama grabbed seventeen white seeds, and Shibano Tiger Maru guessed correctly. Although a long game of chess was played for two days, the content of the game was clearly one-sided. In the opening game, Iyama Bai 36 dug the remnants out of the black array, and the zhigu on the right was completely anti-guest-oriented. At the beginning of the second day of the game, Shibano Black 67 retracted to do the work to make the situation retreat, because the white chess piece was almost unconditionally relegated, in any case it was not a dead shape, the suspense of victory and defeat quickly disappeared, and when it reached 180 hands, Shibano Tiger Maru conceded defeat.
The two sides resumed the game after the game.
The video commentary of the Japanese Chess Academy Network Channel at the same time reached nearly 8,000 people online, ranking third on the whole platform, making people feel that the essence of Japanese Go is still there.
Although he had repeatedly lost chess at the Tokiwa Inn, In 2021 Yuta Iyama won a very important set here.
Iniyama, who attended the press conference after the game, said: "Ten consecutive hegemons are unbelievable", and the image of the lonely master of the Japanese chess world has become more and more intense.
This year's commemorative folding fan of the Battle of Benyinfang.
Zhao Zhixun, who once said, "Even if God tells me that after getting the Ten Leagues, the next day I will suffer a tragic disaster and die, I will not hesitate to take down the Ten Leagues", responded when he heard that Ieyama Yuta was leveling his own record:
"Three consecutive defeats are already shocking, and they are all complete defeats, and the impact on me cannot be expressed in words. What happened to Jingshan? Is it the little tiger (referring to Shibano Tiger Maru) who finally shows its fangs? I was thinking about it, and Inoyama had found himself perfectly in a very short time. All along, Inoyama has been winning steadily in the center of the ring, and now he is forced to the edge of the ring, but he shows the new charm of Iyama. My ten consecutive masters are already the terminal station, but Jingshan, your ten consecutive hegemons are still just passing through the station, and the next stop is the twenty consecutive masters? ”