In the past hundred years, the world's Go world has been starry-eyed and full of masters. They were either invincible in the Juban Chess War, or won the Toad Palace in the domestic title battle, or won gold and silver in the World Series, and achieved impressive results.
The question is, which top players can be shortlisted for the top 20 in the world chess world? For a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets. This is a topic of benevolence and wisdom, and I would like to comment on it reluctantly here, hoping to play a role in throwing bricks and leading jade.
The main basis is the results of domestic and foreign competitions, supplemented by contributions and influence to the development of Go. Because Japanese Go was thriving before the 1980s, the results of the early Japanese masters mainly looked at domestic competitions, and the later reference world competitions; Chinese and Korean masters looked at both aspects, mainly the performance of the world competition, and the two were among the best.
After much thought, and given that exactly ranking the seats is a very difficult task, I decided to divide the top 20 candidates into four tiers.
Showa Chess Saint Wu Qingyuan
The three in the first level are Wu Qingyuan, Li Changhao and Li Shishi.
Among them, Wu Qingyuan is almost indisputable. As a Showa chess saint, he is a grandmaster-level, god-like being; his invincible and unsuccessful achievements in Japan's Juban Chess War have made chess players of different eras look up to Takayama; his promotion of the new layout of modern Go and the perfection of The style of Go are unparalleled; and his influence in the world Of Go world is unparalleled.
Lee Chang-ho's second place should be a matter of course. He occupies the first place in the world championship list with 17 titles, creating the Lee Chang-ho era in the history of world Go; his influence in the World of Go is beyond the reach of most masters; his official level is unique, and his innovation in official technology dwarfs that of other top players.
The third is Lee Sedol. The 14 world champions, ranked second in the World Championship list, are the main reasons for Xiao Li's selection; in terms of Go techniques and tactics, his attack power and spoiler kung fu are absolutely outstanding, often eye-catching with other masters; his first defeat of intelligent Go, maverick style and outright retirement behavior have caused great repercussions in the chess world.
Lee Chang-ho nine paragraphs
The four in the second level are Cao Xuanxuan, Gu Li, Ke Jie, and Sakata Eiko.
The reason for The selection of Cho Hwan-hyun is that his performance of the nine world championships is second only to lee ko in the third place in the world championship list; after winning the first Ying's Cup championship, South Korea set off a Go boom, the population of Go soared, Cho Xuan-hyun contributed to this, and his domestic influence is extraordinary.
China's first eight-time champion Gu Li was naturally shortlisted. Together with Li Shishi, he created the ancient Li era of the world chess world, and the achievements are unquestionable; in the Guli era, Chinese Go was truly on an equal footing with the Korean Wave, reversing the previous backward and beaten misery, and its reputation in the Chinese Go community cannot be underestimated.
As for Ke Jie, China's current first person and eight-time winner of the World Series, his entry into the list is not surprising, and he and Gu li are currently tied for fourth place in the world championship list, which is a record that overwhelms many top players.
Sakata Eio also rises to this level. Nicknamed "Razor", Sakata Einan has an outstanding record, is the king of the unification of the Japanese chess world after Wu Qingyuan, and his record of winning the championship for many years was later broken by Zhao Zhixun; Sakata Einan's sharp chess style has a great influence on the Go world and is an absolute master.
Lee Sedol and Gu li
The nine in the third level are Kitani Shi, Cho Ji-hoon, Liu Chang-hyuk, Park Ting-hwan, Ma Xiaochun, Kong Jie, Chen Yaoye, Shin Jin-chan, and Kobayashi Koichi.
Together with Wu Qingyuan, Kitani shi created a new layout, and contributed to the innovation of Go techniques and tactics; his special contribution was to open a modern Go dojo training model and achieve rare results in the world, and the disciples in his dojo occupied five of the six great first-class Japanese masters: Hero Otake, Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya, Cho Zhixun, koichi Kobayashi, four of whom were world champions, and this number was unrivalled; although the results of the competition were not the best, their prestige was almost on par with Wu Qingyuan. Therefore, it is beyond reproach that Katorani is in the third level.
Zhao Zhixun, the first of Japan's six super leagues, created the first number of championships in the Japanese chess industry, plus two world championship titles, which was the basis for his election.
Yoo Chang-hyuk is one of the four kings of South Korea, and the honor of the world's grand six-time champion gives him good reason to be shortlisted.
Park Was elected as a leader in Korean Go after Lee Sedol with five world championship titles.
Ma Xiaochun is among the leaders after China's first world champion, the first double champion and Nie Weiping.
Kong Jie was selected as the Triple Crown of the World Series, and his record of this Treble was obtained by relying on the tiger's mouth to win the teeth at the peak of both Lee Sedol and Gu Li.
Chen Yaoye, like Kong Jie, is also a triple crown champion, and the fruits of his three victories are the three leaders of Li Shishi, Ke Jie and Shen Zhenchen, whose skills can be imagined.
Shin is currently only a double champion, but he is the first person in the world today after Ke Jie, and although it is still controversial, the trend is difficult to change.
Koichi Kobayashi was a representative of Japanese Go in the 1980s, and although he only had one world title, he was not much different from Cho Ji-hoon.
Masaki Takemiya and Lin Haifeng
There are 16 candidates in the fourth level, of which Japan is Hideyuki Fujisawa, Masaki Takemiya, Hayashi Haifeng, Masao Kato, Hashimoto Utaro, Takakawa Katsu, Noriki Ieda, Wang Licheng and other eight; South Korea is Park Yongxun, Choi Chul-han, Kang Dong-yun and other three; China is Nie Weiping, Chang Hao, Tang Weixing, Mi Yuting, Shi Yue and other five.
Among these 16 candidates, the four candidates I see as good to be shortlisted for the top 20 are Nie Weiping, Masaki Takemiya, Hideyuki Fujisawa, and Chang Hao.
The influence of the ring hero Nie Weiping is unparalleled in the world, the main record is the 11 consecutive victories in the Sino-Japanese ring, winning three consecutive championships for the Chinese team, and the biggest regret is that the three finals did not win the world championship title.
Set the first Go world champion, the first world championship double champion, the first consecutive world champion, the originator of the universe, the four major labels of The Mumiya Masaki, is a favorite object of chess fans; Hideyuki Fujisawa once said: After a hundred years, our chess has been forgotten, and only the cosmic flow of Masaki Takemiya can flow for hundreds of years.
Hideyuki Fujisawa has won Japan's first chess game jihad six times, and he was once a big chess player alongside Sakata Eio, but his overall results were not as good as Sakata Eio, nor as good as Cho Ji-hoon and Kobayashi Koichi.
Ren Sheng Changhao is a triple winner of the World Series and should be in the front, but because of his poor record of Lee Chang-ho, Lee Sedol, and Gu Li, I had to rank him last.
The above shortlist of the world's top 20 Go players is just my family's words. Overall, with the exception of Wu Qingyuan and Lee Chang-ho, the selection or ranking of other masters may be somewhat controversial, especially in the Go world in different countries. My purpose is to arouse the heated discussion of chess fans and friends, and propose a better selection method, such as professional chess players and Go enthusiasts voting separately, and determining after comprehensive evaluation and scoring.
Chess fans, what do you think?