Coulee won the Toyota Cup
Serial 38 2009 Heroes of the World Mo Nengdang, Coulee Dynasty (Part 2)
Before the China Merchants Shekou Cup, the three generations of Chinese Go leaders completed exchanges with chess fans on Weibo, Nie Weiping, Chang Hao, Gu Li, whose names were written all over the history of Chinese Go for forty years, now it seems that there is less sharpness on the winning and losing field, and more peace and tranquility brought by the years. When someone asked why Gu Li's online chess account was called "Star Old Immortal", Gu Li replied, "I wanted to call Qiao Feng, but I found that I was not so powerful, and I could only retreat to the second place."
However, in those days from 2008 to 2009, Gu Li on the world chess world was real, like Qiao Feng on the mountain of the wind and smoke, the rivers and lakes in front of him, the heroes of the world, but also left a sentence "Although thousands of people are going to die", the cup of wine raised eyebrows, talking and laughing. Years later, when we look back in the twilight and sunset of his brilliant peak, eight years ago, he listed his chess pieces into stars and lit up the journey of Chinese Go to the peak.
Think of that year, Jinge iron horse, swallowed like a tiger.
In July 2008, the Fujitsu Cup ended, and Gu Li, who was once again ill with Chinese Go, achieved the first "Triple Crown" of Chinese Go. After the game, Gu Li flew back to Chongqing and placed the Fujitsu Cup championship certificate in front of his father's tomb, four chess sheets, four wisps of green smoke, which was his horse journey on the Fujitsu Cup, and when he burned the final to face Lee Chang-ho's chess score, Gu Li's voice and hands were trembling.
"Dad, this is the chess game of the final, I won Lee Chang-ho, this is the opponent you want me to win the most, you take a good look at it."
A year and a half ago, in the 2007 Nongshim Cup, Gu Li, as the main player, finally failed to stop Lee Chang-ho, allowing South Korea to accept the champion of the Three Kingdoms Tournament again. After the game, Gu Li's father, Mr. Gu Jushan, said that he would rather his son exchange the champion of the Chunlan Cup for this victory of the Nongshim Cup. A few months later, Gu Jushan died suddenly, this lifelong love of Go, the cultivation of Gu Li is to let him take over Nie Weiping's gun, become a new generation of "anti-Japanese pioneer" Of Chongqing Hanzi, in the end, still can not wait for the moment when Gu Li defeated Li Changhao, failed to wait for the brilliant glory of the Chinese Go rising sun.
When Gu Li won the first world championship, Gu Jushan said to Gu Li, "I hope you can get more world championships." That is the expectation that the Center of Guli has never dared to forget, the Scythians have gone, and those who are alive can only strive to move forward. Warm eyes in heaven, seeing the glorious picture scroll written by Gu Li and Chinese Go together, presumably should also smile, Wang Shi Beiding Zhongyuan Ri, that is the expectation of many people, we can see Mr. Gu Jushan, we can see Mr. Ying Changqi, we can also see Mr. Wu Songsheng and Marshal Chen Yi, their smiles float in the starry sky of Chinese Go, in every chess game that Chinese players win, with ardent expectations and full of smiles, brilliant and moving.
"More world champions", for Guli, three championships, is by no means the end.
In August 2008, the summer was warm, and the atmosphere of the Olympic Games had ignited the streets and alleys. From the carnival of 2001, seven years of anticipation, at this moment, will be the most perfect ending. "National fortune is prosperous, chess is prosperous", this is marshal Chen Yi's thesis many years ago, illuminating the brilliant fireworks of the Chinese land, the Go players are also trying to turn this thesis into reality. In Tokyo, Japan, the smoke of the Toyota Cup has become thick again, and this is a championship trophy that Chinese chess players have never been able to touch. In the first three competitions, the champion belonged to the two Li, Chang Hao reached the final twice in a row, but returned with two consecutive feathers, and the loser of the third tournament became the leader of Japanese Go, Zhang Xu. Toyota Corporation of Japan held a competition that became a stage for Korean people to enjoy the joy, and toyota, which initially set the championship prize at 30 million yen plus a Toyota car worth 10 million yen, probably never thought that the champion would not be Japanese, so it failed to consider the question of how the car should get out if a foreigner won the championship. Therefore, at the beginning of the second tournament, the organizers, realizing that the Japanese chess players may not be able to win the championship, decided to add the discount to the prize money. Judging from the list of this tournament, the Japanese legion is also not optimistic, although there are eleven people participating, almost comparable to the sum of China and South Korea combined, but in addition to the "Four Heavenly Kings of Heisei", as well as Kono Rin and Kiki Ieda, who often have brilliant records in foreign wars, several other Japanese generals who have fought in the qualifiers are more like taking us back to the Japanese Go group during the ring. In 1986, the young general who played the vanguard of the second Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, Toshiya Imamura, who is now a veteran in his forties, played with him, as well as the Japanese pioneer Yamada Norizo Sansei of the ninth ring. Naoto Yansaka is 46 years old, Masaki Kojima is 44 years old, and Cho Ji-hoon's disciple Kim So-joon is the only young man, but at the age of 29, his greatest honor in life may be to defeat Yuta Iyama in the final of the rookie Wang Zhan. The appearance of Japanese chess players in the world championship always gives us some sense of alienation that belongs to time, here, we can always see those chess players who seem to be part of "history" flow out again, with a full of years of dust, let us remember the japanese Go of the year, but also more and more feel the Japanese Go to the decline of today.
The first round of the battle, the result was not unexpected, Kim so Joon lost to Park Yongxun, Yamada Norizoo lost to Han Sang-hoon, who had been promoted to three dan, Kojima Masaki was defeated by Park Wenyao, Yansaka Naoto had the worst luck, he came up and bumped into Gu Li, even Heisei Four Heavenly King, also injured more than half, in the domestic Ben in the battle of Ben in the square after three consecutive defeats after four consecutive victories Naoki Hane is still a good sign in the World Series, against the Korean stalwart MuJin Shuo defeated, The opponent of The Three-Fold Chess Saint Yamashita Keigo was another Korean stalwart, Cho Han-seon, and the result was another defeat. With Kono Rin and Eda Kiki folding in the hands of Lee Sedol and Chow Joon Hoon, the most important significance of the first round was to help the large Japanese army complete the slimming. The eight generals of the Korean side are only missing Hong Jizhi, the five Chinese chess players have broken through, and only Chang Hao has lost to Park Zhengxiang, and the real confrontation of the Toyota Cup, in the sixteen finals, has just begun.
Park Moon-yao
Four Chinese players play against four Korean players, and the signing luck continues to provide us with more topics. Sheikh Guli fought against "Erpu" Park Zhengxiang and Park Yongxun, and gradually had the Korean genius Park Wenyao, who became the "Little Leopard" generation's family election, against Shangshi Buddha, Liu Xing, who is regarded as a representative figure of China's "backbone chess player", and Han Sang-hoon, the "strongest initial stage" who rose out of the army in 2007. Good victory and defeat always need to be signed and completed, so that the first-class chess players belonging to the two countries will become a normal in the world series in the coming years, the two armies are opposed, the crowd will be prominent, the guns will be held at the same time, and the cold light will be filled with sky. Nineteen lanes, just like the battlefield between the two countries, and standing side by side, they are opening up the frontier of Chinese Go. Gu Li and Park Yongxun, this is undoubtedly the most noteworthy contest, the representatives of the top chess players in China and South Korea, met together at too early. In the last Samsung Cup, Gu Li was in the case of winning one game first, he was reversed by Park Yongxun in two consecutive sets, stopping outside the final door, the old vendetta was not lost, the former hatred was still there, the chess opponent, Gu Li's long knife, once again out of the sheath.
"Guanzi Death", this is the nickname of Park Yongxun, from Lee Chang-ho, Park Yongxun is undoubtedly the world's best official super-first-class chess player. The two victories against Gu Li and Park Yong-hoon in the Samsung Cup all came from the reversal of the official stage. This time, the game is still a fine chess, before entering the official stage, we can still see the winning opportunity of both sides, and what Gu Li has to do is to complete the most enjoyable victory in the field that the opponent is best at. As soon as the 216 hand was broken, the earth-shattering catastrophe had already detonated in front of our eyes, Park Yongxun's black chess piece collapsed in an instant, and after a long period of anxiety, we only saw a moment of sword light, brilliant flashing through the starry sky. The moment of victory and defeat has been divided, the third day king under the south korean second Lee fell, Gu Li crossed the old opponent, and reached the quarterfinals with great courage.
We have five of the top thirty-two, four of the sixteen, and in the quarterfinals, we still have four, and in the battle to break through the barriers, facing the resistance of three world champions and one world runner-up in South Korea, our record is four wins and four wins, all passed. Sheikh defeated Park Jeong-hsiang, Liu Xing defeated Han Sang-hoon, and Gu Li defeated Park Yongxun, all of which can be regarded as meeting expectations, but Park Wenyao's slashing of the stone Buddha is undoubtedly the biggest surprise we have gained this August. The young Korean genius who had received the wisdom of the Korean Emperor Cho Hwan-hyun, and now, the best way he can repay Cho Hyun-hyun is to defeat Cho Hyun-hyun's disciple, Lee Chang-ho, who made Old Cao love and hate, to prove that Cho Hyun-hyun has never looked at the wrong person. The chess style is stable, the lack of explosive Park Wenyao, the chess style is similar, the stone Buddha who has reached the peak of the field here, such a battle, we have seen too many times in Kong Jie, and we have looked forward to it too many times. But in the end, it was the 19-year-old who was able to do it. The years flowed, and the "Three Musketeers of the National Youth" who laughed side by side in those years have already reached the critical moment of their careers, and the waves behind the rivers and mountains have pushed forward the waves, and a generation of new people has always walked in front of the old people in the days when we are unconscious. The time left for Kong Jie And Hu Yaoyu is indeed not much.
Of course, at this moment, we will not realize that Kong Jie will take over the scepter in Gu Li's hand in the next year and open a shorter but equally brilliant "one-year dynasty", and we will not know that it is Park Wenyao who will end the Kong Jie dynasty and open a new "era of one crown group".
These geniuses who stand at the top of the Go world, their encounters and karmas are always too interesting stories, always too worth talking about.
Lee Chang-ho and Park Yong-hoon fell one after another, and all South Korea could count on was Lee Sedol. After the LG Cup shot down the country's strongest new rookie Han Sang-hoon, the strongest king of this era is only one step away from the double-digit world champion. And the goddess of Go once again smiled and put the result of the draw in our hands, like a repeat of history, and it was Sheikh who drew Lee Sedol. Two years ago, the old events of the Chunlan Cup are still in front of us, and another great victory of Chinese Go seems to be about to be repeated, and the heavy responsibility of foreign wars has once again been handed over to Sheikh. Some people say that sheikh is Li Shishi's "natural enemy", but in fact, the battle record between the two is only 3:2, and the last two matches are sheikh's two consecutive defeats. Compared with two years ago, Li Shishi seems to be stronger, and Sheikh is already some distance away from the original "second person in China".
However, in the big scenes, the sheikh rarely let us down. In front of Li Shishi, we can always see the best Sheikh, anNing eyebrows, that is the wind bone that truly belongs to the "seeker", even if he has never been a champion and is listed among the strongest chess players in an era, he has never been ashamed. At the beginning of the game, Lee Sedol, who was eager to win, seemed to really regard this old opponent as the defeated general of the Asian Cup a few days ago, but today's Sheikh has obviously entered the state, and in the opening battle, he firmly grasped the situation, even if there was a mistake in the middle game, but the Sheikh was still calm and terrible, he steadily closed the situation and maintained the 2.5-purpose advantage until the end. The moment Lee Sedol left with hatred, two stalwart players, Mu Jin-sook and Cho Han-seung, were also swept out by Park Moon-yao and Gu Li, and Korean Go was once again blocked from the top four of the World Series after the Chunlan Cup in 2006.
"Tokyo Victory", this is the best gift from Chinese Go to this fiery August, towards the Olympic Games.
Of course, Zhang Xu was left in the final four, and he defeated Liu Xing, retaining the last fire for Japanese Go. On foreign wars, this is the last "Japanese first man" who can really put on the table, Lin Haifeng's men, Wu Qingyuan's disciples, and the glory of the six supers, only on his body, can he peek into the slightest. In the final four, the contest between Gu Li and Zhang Xu also has the meaning of the first man showdown between China and Japan. Time has really passed too long, Chen Zude and Suganai Masao, Shen Guosun and Sakata Einan, Nie Weiping and Lin Haifeng Dazhu hero Takemiya Masaki, in those days, we have seen too many competitions between the top Chinese and Japanese chess players, and their eyes are in the long time of the development of Go between China and Japan. And now, when Gu Li and Zhang Xu sit together, even if the time changes, even if the vicissitudes of the sea, even if the Sino-Japanese Go is not the old situation, but only the name of the first man between China and Japan, it already has too many connotations.
We will not know how long we will have to wait for the next time the kings of China and Japan meet in the final four of the World Series.
Coulee
At the beginning, Zhang Xu fished the ground, and Gu Li accumulated rich potential, but just after the first hundred hands were tit-for-tat, 102 hands, Zhang Xu's one reliance was a big surprise. Zhang Xu, who has always been good at dead and alive problems, lost his front hoof in the place he was most familiar with, and miscalculated. Just when we all thought that Gu li won the ticket, as if we felt that it was impossible to rely on mistakes to win, Gu Li 145 hands back to the second son, almost equivalent to stopping one hand, the situation has become complicated again. At the time of the decisive battle, the next thing Gu Li did was to first stabilize the situation, and then use the stroke of the gods to completely defeat Zhang Xu in one fell swoop. Just like the sixteenth strong battle against the enemy Park Yongxun, Gu Li once again used the brilliant sword light to leave us with an unforgettable moment, this is the "flying knife", is Gu Li dedicated to the Go world performance, the most beautiful chess game, there is such a moment, it is enough.
After Park Wenyao defeated Sheikh, Gu Li ushered in the second "little leopard" in the world series summit showdown, Park Wenyao once said that he was not the hardest in the chess academy, the hardest was Chen Yaoye. Unfortunately, these two geniuses' unparalleled "leopard heads" were in the hands of Gu Li and wasted their youth. Two games, two rounds of victory, into 2009 Guli, the talent flowed to the fullest, this is Guli's fourth championship trophy, and Guli's record in the final is four wins.
At this moment, the king of the divine state stood up and looked away, and the four trophies were in his hands, flashing the most dazzling light. His opponent is only the Korean chess player who was previously recognized as the first person of the era, lee chang-ho's successor, who has just defeated Kong Jie and won his tenth crown, Lee Sedol.
The duel of kings, the first battle under the heavens, is just in time.
Jiangyuan County, Baitan Temple, spring return in February, snow has not melted, and gun smoke is near. The Report of the South Korean Media is dazzling, "the first battle in four thousand years", this is the first time, above the peak of the world's Go, there have been two kings who belong to the same peak and are equal. Li Shishi has the Three Star Cup, the Asian Cup and the LG Cup in his hand, Gu Li's hands, there are Chunlan Cup, Toyota Cup and Fujitsu Cup, the reigning Triple Crown to the reigning Triple Crown, such an encounter, not so much accidental, but rather the honor given to the world by the go goddess, the king finally met the king, the genius finally met the genius who can be shoulder to shoulder, at this moment, the victory and defeat kill, it seems that there is a little more tender warmth, the height is not cold, but since standing side by side, presumably Gu Li will not be lonely, Li Shishi, will not be lonely.
Infographic: Gu li versus Lee Sedol
Before the first battle, it snowed at Baitan Temple, as if the heavens were also cheering for this battle, sending snow elves to see what was going on. Gu Li's chess, as sharp and ruthless as ever, fell in 83 hands, Mu Zhenshuo said, "Gu Li is determined to make the left side scorched." And Li Shishi, it is true that there is no state under the attack of Gu Li, this is Gu Li's dragon slaughtering victory, the moment when Li Shishi threw his son, almost reminds us of the scene when he was "crying" by Gu Li in the Weijia League. Although, they are no longer the young teenagers they were when they first met in the old days. They have experienced too many ups and downs and traumas, and they have also borne too much responsibility and weight.
Perhaps, those who do not want to get it but eventually add it to the body and mind, those who are struggling to explore but are still as far away as the sky, such emotions, only the two of them, can feel it. Compared with the first time they met, each other has a little more wrinkles, and they can only raise a glass to the experience, glory and tears of these years, and salute the blue sky together. Heroes pity each other, heroes fight, heroes meet, the world is beautiful, nothing is too much.
In the second inning, Lee Sedol walked out of the haze of the first inning. At noon, the Korean chess player Kim Young-sam who explained the game has already said that "no big change, Lee Sedol will win." However, if it is said that there are no major changes, there will often be some big changes, and Li Shishi is careless in his move, and he will fall into the dead end of "whether to slay the dragon". If you try to slay the dragon, the white dragon will not necessarily die, it is estimated that you will lose, do not slay the dragon, the black chess situation is bad, or you will lose. And when Lee Sedol finally chose to give up slaying the dragon, Gu Li was already victorious. The 2:0 clean sheet made the victory of the first battle of the four thousand years belong to Gu Li.
Chang Hao won the 7th Chunlan Cup
It was Gu Li's fifth crown, and three months later, he beat Zhao Hancheng in the BC Card Cup to win his sixth personal crown. Six finals, six battles and six victories, the Coulee Dynasty, in the most brilliant and unstoppable way, written into the annals of the world of Go. It seems that between Gu and Li, they will continue to fight like this until we can't imagine some time.
At that time, Gu Li said, "Li Shishi and I can't compete for ten years."
However, in just one year, the pattern of world Go has been turned upside down.
2009 World Go Events:
On January 8, 2009, Gu Li kept a clean sheet with Park Moon-yao and won the fourth Toyota Cup.
On January 21, 2009, Lee Sedol sealed Kong Jie and won the 13th Samsung Cup.
On February 25, 2009, Gu Li kept a clean sheet on Lee Sedol and won the 13th LG Cup.
On April 23, 2009, Choi Chul-han defeated Lee Chang-ho to win the 6th Ying Cup
On May 4, 2009, Gu Li defeated Zhao Hansheng 3:1 to win the first BC Card Cup.
On June 24, 2009, Chang Hao kept a clean sheet with Lee Chang-ho and won the 7th Chunlan Cup.
(To be continued)
(Xie Tianshu)