"Aesthetic chess player" Otake hero Jiudan, announced his retirement on December 15, 2021, bowed to the curtain, and said goodbye to the professional arena.
Retire the Hero of Otake at the press conference.
Born on May 12, 1942 in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, Otake was born on December 1951 under the tutelage of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, and became the "Master Brother of Kitani Gate" who resounded in the chess world. In 1956, he entered the section, and in the 1960s, he co-created the "Bamboo Forest Era" with Lin Haifeng, and in 1970, it was upgraded to the ninth dan. He has won the first place in the Japanese chess academy for seven consecutive times, won the first place in the Japanese chess academy for six consecutive times, won the celebrity four times, won the championship of ten dan and the throne many times, and won the title of "Honorary Sage" for a total of 48 times. In particular, he has won eighteen fast chess championships such as the NHK Cup, crane holy war and NEC Cup in the fast chess tournament, and is known as the "god of fast chess".
Childhood Takeru who plays against his mentor Mutani Shigeru.
Otake Hero has a good style of chess, is a standard Japanese Honge school, good at post-attack, and is known as "turtle step big bamboo". In his heyday, Japanese Go journalists gave him the title of "Aesthetic Bamboo", which has been recited to this day. In fact, Otake Heroes has extremely practical moves in a considerable number of chess scores, and the so-called "aesthetics" refers more to the beautiful pursuit of victory and the goal of winning chess with gorgeous ideas.
In 1975, Dazhu rose to the top of the celebrity under the attention of Wu Qingyuan.
Hero Otake is a chess player, and although victory is important, the way to win also has the same position, and there has been a famous saying like "such a move tarnishes the chess game". Due to the heavy heart of seeking the tao, the mood during the game seriously affected the play of Otake, and often the situation was still good, but due to the previous poor play, the mood was very bad, and it occurred that he simply threw himself into the situation. In the eyes of the Japanese Go community, this seriously affected Otake's chess achievements and historical status.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Kobayashi Koichi, Zhao Zhixun and other young masters and disciples under the Mugu Gate "snatched the power of the class" and "forced the retreat" of the master brothers on the front line of victory and defeat.
Hero Otake is frank and frank, with a pure heart. In the Sino-Japanese Go exchange, there have been anecdotes such as "no points are played first" and "I am the commander with the whip". As the strength of Chinese chess players improved, the 2nd Sino-Japanese Go Tournament ended with Nie Weiping defeating the hero Oftake, who also became acquainted with generations of Chinese chess players and insisted on participating in the Sino-Japanese Ring until the end of the tournament.
The battle of the 2nd Sino-Japanese Ring was called "a bloody game" by Nie Weiping.
In the 1990s, the hero of Otake, who was more than half a hundred years old, erupted in the world arena of "Ohtake Volcano", and in 1992 he won the 5th Fujitsu Cup in a row, becoming the oldest world champion ever, and winning the 6th Asian Television Quick Chess Championship in 1994. Since then, he has still been able to occasionally appear in the Ying Clan Cup, eliminating the defending champion Liu Changhe in the 2000 Ying Clan Cup, and reaching the final four of the Ahan Kiriyama Cup in Japan in 2009.
In 2004, he competed in the Ying Cup, and Otake received a new nickname of "Old Naughty Boy".
In his later years, Hero Otake did not hesitate to damage his feathers and intervened in the affairs of the chess industry with a lofty position, serving as the chairman of the Japanese Chess Academy from 2008 to 2012 and as an advisor to the Japanese Chess Academy from 2012 to 2020, promoting the Japanese Go community to move forward in the reform of the Japanese Go community as a chess leader, and winning the nature of a "public welfare foundation legal person" for the Japanese Chess Academy, shouldering the responsibility of top chess players.
From 2003 to 2015, Hero Otake has won the Kitakyushu Citizens' Cultural Award, the Purple Ribbon Medal, the Okura Kichirō Award, the Western Japan Culture Award, and the Japanese Government's Rising Sun Medal.
After all, it is nearly the old age, although the achievements of Otake Heroes are still not teenagers, the computing power is not as good as that of the young age, and the rise of AI Go has broken the traditional concept and made the old predecessors lose ground. In 2019 and 2021, Otake officially competed twice to misread the signs, and only a few dozen hands conceded defeat in the middle of the game. On November 11, 2021, he played against the post-90s chess player Yushi Ito at the 78th Honinbo Battle Qualifier in Japan, and the situation that was once dominant in the mid-game was reversed. After the game, he had the idea of retiring, and publicly stated: "I can't play the Game of Go that I want to see, and it's time to end before the age of eighty." ”
Hero Otake's last sheet of chess in the professional Go world, accumulating 1317 wins, 845 losses, 5 and 1 winless.
At the retirement press conference, Otake Hero repeatedly expressed his guilt and reluctance towards his old friend Lin Haifeng: "Without him, there would be no me today." "Sudden retirement is like betraying My Most Respected Mr. Lin." "I was ready to call and apologize, but he didn't answer, it hurt like his hand had been cut off." After the reporter informed Lin Haifeng of the news of Dazhu's withdrawal, Lin Haifeng sighed continuously: "It's too sudden, so lonely..."
The "Bamboo Forest Era" is the last romantic year of the Go world, and the friendship between the two elders is particularly heartbreaking.
Since most Japanese chess players are active in the service for life, it has not happened for more than twenty years since the retirement of a super-first-class chess player like Otake Hero. Otake plans for his life after retirement: "When a Mito Yellow Gate travels all over the country, communicating with people everywhere and spreading the joy of Go." (Mito Yellow Gate is a Japanese historical term that refers to a well-known elder who travels in all directions on micro-service private visits.)
The popular young girl Zhongyi presented flowers to his sixty-seven-year-old predecessor as the end of the sixty-five-year career of the hero of Otake. Compared with Wu Qingyuan's one-on-ten withdrawal of chess, Sakata Eio and Fujisawa Hideyuki's grand retirement ceremony (Hideyuki even selected a favorite chess player Chang Hao, Takao Shinji, and Cao Kao-hyun in China, Japan and South Korea to play three retirement exhibition matches), and Otake's curtain was much more depressed.
From the time a nine-year-old country boy entered the gate of the Kitani dojo, Otake has lived in the Go world for seventy years. From the winter of 1951 to the winter of 2021, seventy years of fighting and star shifting, the chess world changed dramatically, and only Otake did not change the "stone heart" of Go (his most frequently inscribed word). The heroic mark of "aesthetic bamboo" will also be passed on forever in the Go world.