On November 30, the second stage of the 23rd Nongshim Sim Noodle Cup World Go Team Tournament was concluded between Japan's first person, Yuta Iyama, and South Korean vice coach Shin Min-aki. Prior to this battle, Yuta Iyama had won three consecutive games in this nongshim Cup, helping japan gain a numerical advantage for the first time.
As the last barrier in front of the coach Shin Jin-chan, Shin Min-woo carries the huge expectations of the Korean Go community, which can be said to be a heavy responsibility - ending Jingshan's 3-game winning streak and avoiding Shin Jin-chan fighting alone in the third stage has become his biggest task in this battle. After all, in terms of historical records, Shin Min-min led Yuta Iyama 2:0 and never lost to his opponents.
Distressed South Korean team vice coach Shin Min-soo
However, in the end, it backfired, and Shen Minzuo, in the situation of the advantage in the middle game, had a fatal miscalculation and was overturned by Iyama Yuta slaughtering the dragon. At this point, after the first two stages of this Nongshim Cup, the South Korean team was left with only coach Shin Jin-chan, and the situation was the most dangerous.
Before the start of this nongshim Cup, the Korean team composed of Shin Jin-chan, Park Young-hwan, Bian Sang-il, Shin Min-hyun and Won Seung-jin was praised by the Korean media as "the strongest dream team in Korean history". Under such a high positioning tone, the three Korean chess players Park Tinghuan, Bian Sang-yi and Shin Min-min who played in the second stage did not win in 1 set, which is probably something that the South Korean side will never think of, and it is also difficult to accept.
The mood of the Chinese team may not be much better, although the first set of the second stage Fan Tingyu defeated Park Tinghuan is a hearty victory, but after that Fan Tingyu and Li Qincheng have been out, after the end of the second stage, only Mi Yuting and Ke Jie are left, the situation is also not optimistic.
Yuta Iyama, who is proud of the spring breeze
The frustration of the Chinese and Korean teams is due to one person - Yuta Iyama.
As the first person to actively play Japanese Go, the 32-year-old Inoyama made an early appearance at this year's Nongshim Cup and made a big kill, and a wave of 4 consecutive victories made the second stage a stage for Iyama to perform alone. And from the content of the 4 games of chess, almost all the games are "big wins".
Crazy Jingshan also set a number of records in one fell swoop, let's take a look:
Average net win of 30 mesh per game? Jingshan is like an AI possession, and Chinese and Korean masters are vulnerable
After 4 consecutive wins, some chess fans joked that "Jingshan won an average of 30 net wins per game". Is this true? Let's look at the data analyzed by AI:
From the AI analysis, we can see that the eye difference at the end of the 4 games is 18 mesh, 61 mesh, 20 mesh, and 23 mesh - adding up to a total of 122 mesh, with an average net win of 30.5 mesh per game!
In other words, Jingshan's statement that "the average net win per game is 30 mesh" is basically accurate. From the winning rate chart of the 4 games, it can be seen that Bian Xiangyi and Li Qincheng are almost completely "lying flat", which belongs to being completely "hanging"; Fan Tingyu and Shen Minyu have once achieved an advantage, but after being reversed by Jingshan, there is no chance!
It can be said that the performance of Jingshan's 4 chess games is phenomenal - especially for the two games of Li Qincheng and Bian Xiangyi, a large number of moves have hit the AI one.
In a fast chess game like the Nongshim Cup, the players often play at a slightly lower level than in slow chess matches. The top masters of China and South Korea encountered Jingshan, who was like an AI possessed, in the fast chess battle, and the rout was logical.
And Yuta Iyama can play such a high level and dominance in the fast chess game, almost indistinguishable from AI hanging humans.
Such a performance is unprecedented.
4 consecutive wins – The longest winning streak of a Japanese chess player in the Nongshim Cup
In the 7th Nongshim Cup, Noriki Iida ended with three consecutive wins to win the Nongshim Cup for the first team in Japan
Yuta Iyama's four-game winning streak set a new record for the Japanese player's longest winning streak in the Nongshim Cup.
The two 7 consecutive wins of the Chinese team Fan Tingyu, the 7 consecutive wins of Yang Dingxin, and the 6 consecutive wins of the South Korean team Shin Min-yong are the longest consecutive wins between China and South Korea, and I believe that the chess fans of China and South Korea must still remember it. In addition, Hu Yaoyu, Peng Quan, Sheikh and Dang Yifei of the Chinese team, and Lee Chang-ho, Kang Dong-yun and Shin Jin-chan of the South Korean team have all won 5 consecutive victories. As for the 4 consecutive wins and 3 consecutive wins, it is even more common for Chinese and Korean chess players.
The Japanese team, which has been weak for a long time in the Nongshim Cup, has only a pitiful 3 consecutive wins, and only 3 chess players have done it - 3 consecutive wins in the 3rd Nongshim Cup Kobayashi Kobayashi, 3 consecutive wins in the 7th Nongshim Cup Ida Kiki, and 3 consecutive wins in the 17th Nongshim Cup.
Among them, in the 7th Nongshim Cup, Japan's player Kiki Ieda won consecutive victories over Zhao Hansheng, Kong Jie and Lee Chang-ho, helping the Japanese team to win the Nongshim Cup for the first time and so far for the first time with a wave of three consecutive wins with full gold content.
In this year's Nongshim Cup, Yuta Iyama, who has won four consecutive games, has set a new record for Japanese chess players. If he can bring the horrors of the second stage to the third stage, this streak is likely to continue to be extended.
For the first time in the history of the Nongshim Cup! Three japanese entered the third stage
The Remaining Japanese team consists of Yuta Iyama, Ichiritsu and Yu Masaki
After Yuta Iyama won four consecutive wins, three players from the Japanese team entered the third stage of the final showdown, which was the first time in the history of the Nongshim Cup.
China and South Korea, which performed strongly in the Nongshim Cup, have repeatedly appeared in the same team when they entered the third stage with 3 chess players. In particular, when the Chinese team won 7 consecutive victories three times, it created a good story that 4 people entered the third stage.
However, for the long-term "weak" Japanese team, it is rare for 2 people to enter the third stage - the 7th Nongshim Cup won by the Japanese team, and only Ida Kiki alone held the third stage.
The 3-man entry into the third stage is almost unimaginable for the Japanese team. Who would have thought that this Nongshim Cup would be achieved in this way?
Japan ended 15 consecutive Nongshim cup bottom, and the Chinese and Korean chess circles sounded the "earthquake alarm"
Who will be at the bottom of China and South Korea? I believe that coach Yu Bin and coach Mu Zhenshuo are feeling pressured
Yuta Iyama's four-game winning streak helped Japan end the embarrassment of bottoming out for 15 consecutive terms.
Since the beginning of this century, Japanese Go has gradually declined, and the Japanese team has long played the role of "reading with the prince" in the Nongshim Cup. In the history of the first 22 Nongshim Cups, the Japanese team has been at the bottom 19 times (the other 3 times are Chinese teams, and the South Korean team has never been bottom).
After the 7th Nongshim Cup in 2006 helped Japan win the championship, the Japanese team began a 15-year long "bottom road" - 15 consecutive Nongshim cup bottom. Moreover, the Japanese team suffered the embarrassment of 0 wins and 5 losses and no win in one game at the 13th Nongshim Cup.
The Nongshim Cup is nominally a "Three Kingdoms Tournament", but the strength of China and South Korea and the decline of Japan have gradually evolved the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" into a "two-hero competition". The thickness of the Chinese team in this nongshim Cup still exists, the Korean team is the "dream team" of the elite, and the Japanese team at the bottom seems to be a nail in the coffin.
However, the crazy outbreak of Jingshan this time changed the outcome that most people expected. With 3 Japanese players entering the third stage, while China and South Korea have only 2 and 1 respectively, it means that even if the Japanese team does not win a game in the third stage, they can at least finish second!
The Japanese team bid farewell to the bottom, which means that the bottom side will inevitably be produced between the two teams. No matter which country in China and South Korea is at the bottom, I am afraid that it will cause an "earthquake" in its own chess circles, especially for South Korea, which has never finished at the bottom of the Nongshim Cup.
Jingshan's crazy winning streak, the Japanese team bid farewell to the bottom, so that the Chinese and Korean chess circles sounded the "earthquake alarm", I believe that Coach Yu Bin and Coach Mu Zhenshuo will feel the pressure.
Written at the end: Behind the "madness" of 32-year-old Yuta Iyama
That's right, Yuta Iyama is 32 years old this year.
In Japan, the once-mighty Iyama Seven Crowns Dynasty has long been a thing of the past – in recent years, with the rise of young forces such as the Reiwa Miwa U, Iyama's title has been lost one after another. From the "Seven Crowns" to the "Five Crowns", and then to the "Three Crowns" left at the end of last year, people lamented that the king of the generation who stood up after the year, Yuta Iyama, could not defeat the years after all.
No one would have thought that in 2021, Jingshan, who is one year old, burst out of powerful energy and achieved amazing "reverse growth"!
In Japan, Iyama has continuously repelled the challenge of junior chess players such as Yili Liao and Shibano Tiger Maru, continuing the "Great Triple Crown" celebrities, chess players, and Ben infang defending their titles, while regaining the title from The One Li Liao after 4 years, and also leading Shibano Tiger Maru 2:1 in the Battle of the Throne, and is expected to re-crown the "Five Crowns" this year.
In addition to continuing his dominance over Japanese chess players, Iyama's performance against the top Chinese and Korean masters this year is also extremely outstanding: as a foreign aid to the Zhejiang team in the Weijia League, Yuta Iyama has defeated Xie Ke and Ding Hao, two of China's "post-00s" top masters, and won consecutive victories over Fan Tingyu, Bian Xiangyi, Li Qincheng and Shen Min in the Nongshim Cup.
Up to now, Yuta Iyama's overall record against Chinese and Korean chess players this year is 6 wins and 1 loss (only losing 1 game of Shin Shin Shin-chan), of which the Chinese players have maintained 4 full victories.
After Jingshan ruled the second stage of the Nongshim Cup, the poisonous milk mushroom issued a soul torture question "Who is the most embarrassed by Jingshan's four consecutive victories?" ”
Some chess fans believe that it is the head coach of the South Korean national team, Mu Jinshuo, after all, the "strongest dream team" is as fragile as paper paste in front of Jingshan, and it is difficult to blame it as a head coach.
Some chess fans think that it is a Japanese chess academy - Iyama's streak of victories in Japan has not made any waves, 4 games of chess even have no text commentary, and the media has almost no one to report.
However, the author believes that the most embarrassing is probably some chess players under the age of 30 who have lamented that they are "old and not as old as before".
The Japanese people advocate the "craftsman spirit", which is an important support for the prosperity of Japanese society and also carries the spiritual pursuit of the Japanese people. There is an old Japanese saying called "a lifetime of suspense", which means to fight to the death, desperately, and spare no effort to do something, which is most appropriate to describe the "craftsman spirit".
In all walks of life in Japan, dedicated Japanese "craftsmen" are everywhere. They burn their lifelong enthusiasm on their careers, never retreat because of age factors, and will not "serve the old".
In the Japanese Go world, Sakata Eio entered his heyday at the age of 41, Cho Ji-hoon won the world championship at the age of 47, Hideyuki Fujisawa became the first person in Japan at the age of 50, Sugito Sugiuchi fought at the age of 93, Masao Sugita set the record for the highest age at the age of 96, and the white-haired "Japanese Six Super Leagues" are still competing in major competitions in Japan...
These are the embodiment of the craftsman spirit of the Japanese Go people who "hang their lives for a lifetime".
Iyama is only 32 years old, and his "crazy performance" in our eyes is actually normal in Japan.
Maybe China doesn't have the so-called "craftsman spirit", but I still recommend that chess players who "bow their heads" in front of age read the stories of some Japanese craftsmen, such as The Japanese "sushi god" Ono Jiro.
(Saury)