Nie Weiping Lin Haifeng competed for the Fujitsu Cup
Serial XIX 1990, Blunt Knife Ends Ring Match, Fujitsu Cup "Strait Showdown"
When the wheel of history slowly enters the nineties, the light of neon lights gradually renders every cold night in Chinese cities bright, that is Cui Jian's song, the language is not clear, but it is the old time when we are all living together. In Chinese Go, when Nie Weiping regrettably lost to Cao Xuanxuan in the final of the Ying Cup, a long night began, but it was also in this dark day that seemed to have no end in sight, and those stars belonging to the future were already nurturing the most gorgeous light. This is the bleakest day of Chinese Go, year after year, we taste the taste of defeat in front of the strong players of Go in Korea and Japan, the hero is old, the genius who can take over the scepter, but also with one of the two most outstanding super strong people in a hundred years, at that time, both Shengyu and He Shengliang.
However, when successive failures are staged, the goddess of Go, after all, bets the blue eye on the Chinese chess world, the stars are in the world, and the crowd is out, and those who really break the history of Korean domination of the World of Go and irreversibly push the world of Go to the "Chinese Era" are also born in the nineties, the most majestic peak and the most sinking trough, when looking back, it is only twenty years.
Fujitsu Cup three-four battle
The dream of the remnant mountain is true, the old situation is difficult to lose, jinling Yushu, Qinhuai Water Pavilion, it is better to do the chessboard that remained in the final of the first Ying's Cup, the handwriting is still the same, the water flows east, a period of wind and current, the success or failure of these twenty years of sorrow and joy, all look full.
In March 1990, the sino-Japanese Go tournament once again attracted the attention of the Chinese and Japanese chess circles, when Yu Bin's two consecutive victories and Zhang Wendong's three consecutive wins continued, the third General of the Chinese side, Yu Bin, had already invited the Japanese vice marshal, the twenty-third ben in the year of the ancient rare year, Sakata Einan. If you say that you can see the flowers of the Go world blossom and fall and leave, who can be more suitable than Mr. Sakata. He once fought side by side with Wu Qingyuan, Takakawa Katsura, and Hashimoto Utaro, and was known as the "razor" chess player with a sharp chess style, and killed all over the Chinese and Japanese chess world, but he still could not compete with the vicissitudes of time, but just as he showed in his long career, he was always fierce in battle and his desire to win, even if he was white-haired, even if he had been the chairman of the Japanese chess academy for eight years, once he sat on the edge of the chessboard, he was still the stubborn and determined Sakata. At the same time as the vice marshal of the ring, he also completed five wins and two losses in this year's Ben in the Battle of Ben infang, and almost got the right to challenge. This is 1990, it is not the sixties and seventies that belonged to him, but at such a point in the years, this figure that we were too familiar with suddenly appears continuously, or it is like time back, suddenly, I don't know what night it is.
Sakata Yukio Dezan
Not to mention, he also won the game. In the face of 23-year-old Yu Bin, who is two generations younger than himself, Sakata showed that he still has a good level of competition, "Zhi Lonely Sakata" fished enough in the opening, and then used the hand of the mid-game to defeat the opponent, exactly twenty years later, when Sakata really turned into the brightest star in the galaxy in the sky, Yu Bin also mentioned this old thing, he said, "The deepest impression is that he drank a lot of sake after the night with me, and he was very happy to say that japanese young people can't do it, or rely on themselves."
Turn the tide of the tide in the fall, help the building and will fall. Maybe Sakata at that time had not yet seen the signal that the afterglow of the Empire was coming, but like every old general who was still eager to raise the battlefield, he was looking forward to proving his worth, so the wine that night would be "happy" for the old gentleman. However, Sakata has a sentence that is indeed not wrong, when the six super leagues in their prime are also following his steps to grow old, Japan's "young people" are indeed in front of China and South Korea, and they have been pulled away for a long distance.
Such signs, in the ring, have been fully revealed. Although in the last ring, Hagen Taisei ended Nie Weiping's eleven-game winning streak across four ring matches, and finally brought the honor of victory back to Japan four years after the start of the ring. But in the blink of an eye, in the fifth ring match, Nie Ma Liu Jiang, who was more familiar to chess fans of the two countries, had not yet made a shot, and the four young people had already killed directly in front of the Japanese Chinese military tent. Yang Shihai pioneered the defeat of Ida Kiki, Zhang Wendong won consecutive victories over Yuichi Yuan, Taisho Hane, and Shuzo Daipei, and in the past two years, Yu Bin, who won the new sports cup championship and the runner-up of the celebrity battle, successively cut down two of Japan's famous generals, Yamashiro Yamashiro and Yoshio Ishida. It should be known that although Yamashiro did not win any prominent titles in his lifetime, in Japan in the mid-to-late 1980s, he did indeed carry the hope of the Go kingdom, and he was granted the challenge right to the Battle of Honinfang for two consecutive years in 1986.1987, and was regarded as a natural future title holder. Such a duel is more like a metaphor for the future, and Yamashiro's "youth delayed by the six supers" is full of young Japanese people.
And when Yu Bin's winning streak was ended by Sakata Einan, the old general's war horse had not yet been repaired, the spear had not yet been polished, and Qian Yuping's blunt knife had already been slashed down. After being promoted to the ninth dan in 1987, the brilliant peak of Qian Yuping's career suddenly arrived in a very short period of time, such as meteors, such as the blazing sky wind, in the history of Chinese Go, Qian Yuping is a very lamentable case, so amazing talent, but also so sad, like the top of the sky, behind each step of the style, is the blood and tears in the heart. Winning the game and conceding defeat, abstaining from the final, we have mentioned in our words with a sigh, which is already something much heavier than the victory or defeat on the chessboard. Fortunately, Heaven still left us with some beauty, that is Qian Yuping's peak performance, that is the beautiful hope that Chinese Go once had, and it is the reason why this genius national player, who has been called "tragedy" in the future, can complete this name into a "tragic hero".
At least, at that time, it was he who gave Chinese Go an infinite vision of the future, and we once tenaciously believed that his young eyebrows were the clear sky that belonged to Chinese Go.
This is the contest between "razor" and "blunt knife", is the battle between the new and old knifemen, in the face of the big seniors, Qian Yuping's drop of the ladder is flowing in the clouds, in every local fight, Sakata has not taken any advantage, the final four and a half eyes, Qian Yuping broke out of the barrier, in front of him, only the Japanese main general, two consecutive Fujitsu Cup winners, is in his most brilliant stage of the big chess player, Takemiya Masaki.
(Qian Yuping katsu Sakata Einan)
The song of sorrow is extreme, the battle of death, the yellow sand of the Qiang flute, the laughter of the siege, the yellowing of the old picture, record the most gorgeous moment of the young hero, that is, Nanjing in July, with a huge explanation chessboard and the surging flow of nine thousand people, with green dazzling grass and trees and some noisy cicadas, in the situation that is almost doomed to failure, Qian Yuping resolutely entered the white chess sky, the blunt knife that gave himself too much burden outside the chessboard, this time, made the most decisive decision, when all the pressure was thrown, the fate of the heavy ordeal, Choosing to repay at this moment, he pierced through the big void of the Martial Palace, reversed the inevitable situation, and also took the victory of the fifth Sino-Japanese ring match into his own hands.
This is the most vivid victory of Qian Yuping in the contest with fate, as a hero, he enjoys the cheers of thousands of people in Nanjing and even the whole country, and as the second national player to end the ring match after Nie Weiping, forever engraved in the annals of Chinese Go, that belongs to him, fate has left a window, to this wandering genius, full of thorns on the road, the end is the smile, joy, lights and garlands of this moment, which he took from the hands of fate, no one can take it away, no one can take it away.
Qian Yuping and Takemiya Masaki explain the big plate in a round
Qian Yuping's victory allowed Nie Weiping to finally avoid facing the wheel war of Japanese players in the ring, and he could breathe a sigh of relief and put more energy into the stage of the Fujitsu Cup. Just in the same July, he was in Osaka, facing an opponent he had just faced last year, the first South Korean man who had brought him lifelong regrets, the Ying Cup champion Cho Hwan-hyun. This is a final four battle, and the other side of the game is Lin Haifeng and Koichi Kobayashi, still familiar faces, still the scene where Japanese chess players have the advantage. This earliest world competition is more like the self-reserved place of the "six supers" than the novel Ying Cup. However, a game in the second round, in the eyes of people at that time, was just an ordinary cold door, but looking back today, it seems to be the first battle beyond the predecessors on the legendary road of the Stone Buddha, or the young and young Lee Chang-ho eliminated the defending champion Takemiya Masaki, and then in the third round, he lost to Kobayashi Koichi, and the two Japanese super-first-class gazes saw that, vaguely, suddenly they were probably the unparalleled appearance of their young genius, but after all, they were already in their prime, and their descendants would be suppressed by this young man bitterly. Through long, even some desperate times,
The years did not know what was going to happen, and the kings in that fragment were only playing their own Game of Go. Lin Haifeng defeated Kobayashi Koichi and reached the final of the Fujitsu Cup for the third consecutive year, Nie Weiping also completed his revenge, the official reversed, sent Cao Kaoru Hyun home, the regret and hatred of a year ago, at this moment quickly ended. As happened at the first Fujitsu Cup, the Straits Showdown was staged again, and the stage was already the ultimate confrontation in the final. The representative figures of Sino-Japanese Go finally met in the final battle of the World Series, after a long period of missed appointments and many regrets, twenty-seven years ago, Suganai Masao Kudan said, "The Japanese chess community hopes that after five to ten years, the World Go Championship can be held, at which time, The Chinese and Japanese chess players will be at the top", and finally, after the yin and yang errors, in the sunset of an era, the prophecy came true.
It's like the loneliest performance, like those results that are doomed, but finally at this moment when they are unknowable, they are struggling hardest to fight against fate. Looking back from the pages of history, we can already feel the deepest gloom in our trance. Nie Weiping and the "Six Supers", the old rivals of Huashan's sword for too long, met here for the last time, looking at each other's increasing Huafa, old faces, and young heroes from foreign countries, and the era they had painstakingly established would be broken in front of the young people. Young heroes are old, the chess score is turned over page by page, the old days are freshly dressed and angry, the young people are angry, they have become mirrors, flowers, water, moon, dream bubbles, hidden in the history books, they do not know everything that is about to happen, so this time the encounter, but also more like the gift of history, waving a wave at the peak of the sacred mountain of Go, bidding farewell to the former enmity, the former enemies and friends, behind them, the rivers and mountains are vast, and the future will be indefinite.
Lin Haifeng nine sections
The winner is Lin Haifeng, after losing to Masaki Takemiya on the same stage for two consecutive years, he finally won his own world championship, the earliest "six supers" that became famous, decades of wind and waves, still in the era of world competitions, proving his existence. And Nie Weiping, this is his two consecutive years to reach the world series finals, four world championships, he entered the final four three times, such a record, has been enough to support his strength, but luck, indeed not on his side. The dream of winning Chinese Go still needs to wait for a while, waiting for the genius who has been dormant for too long, the dragon leaps into the sea and soars into the sky.
The Go journalists of the year
1990 Chinese Go Events:
In the 1990 Fujitsu Cup, Lin Haifeng defeated Nie Weiping and won the championship, five Chinese players played, Zhang Wendong lost to Einan Sakata in the first round, Jiang Zhujiu lost to Shuzo Daihei in the first round, Cao Dayuan lost to Yamagihiro in the first round, Wang Jianhong lost to Koichi Kobayashi in the first round, and only Nie Weiping entered the quarterfinals.
On July 1, 1990, Qian Yuping defeated Masaki Takemiya, and the Chinese side won the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament again 8:3.
In terms of domestic competitions, Nie Weiping defeated Cao Dayuan 3:2 to win the New Sports Cup; Liu Xiaoguang won the national individual championship and defeated Qian Yuping 3:2 to win the Tianyuan War championship for the third consecutive year; Ma Xiaochun won the Celebrity War Championship.
(To be continued)
(Xie Tianshu)