Because of love, so persevere. Pour all the energy of life into this one thing, this thing, destined to be a lifetime. It is precisely because of this persistence, under the illusion of talent, that he has done a brilliant job in this black and white world.
He is Liu Zhongjie, vice president and secretary general of Kaifeng Weiqi Association, and national Go referee. A few days ago, at his Zhongjie Go dojo, the reporter interviewed this influential figure in the Go world.
Previously, the reporter knew a little about Liu Zhongjie: he had won the individual champion of the Go project of the Fifth Games of Henan Province, the individual champion of the first "Fujitsu Cup" amateur Go masters competition, and trained a number of professional chess players.
Got acquainted with chess
As a big coffee in the World of Go, Liu Zhongjie admitted that he embarked on the road of Go because of the good cultural atmosphere of the ancient city of Kaifeng.
In the 1960s, when much was known about Go in many parts of the country, The go in Kaifeng became popular. It was at this time that Liu Zhongjie became acquainted with Go.
In 1958, Liu Zhongming was born in an ordinary family in Kaifeng, and when he was a child, he often played in the area of Daxiangguo Temple. A small building next to the Tibetan Scripture Building is a gathering place for Kaifeng Go people, and the teenager Liu Zhongjie followed his cousin who liked Tou to stop at the chess table again and again to watch the chess players play chess. Gradually, the confrontation between the black and white camps of Go made Liu Zhongjie obsessed. He leaned over the chess player's chessboard to see how people laid out and how they "sacrificed" their killing moves.
In the early 1970s, Liu Zhongjie, who was full of Go, also began to try to find someone to play against. This test is not tight, Liu Zhongjie, a super talented teenager in the field of Go, actually lost one chess player after another, and the masters who often played here began to pay attention to this teenager.
▲The picture shows Liu Zhongjie participating in the Fifth Games of Henan Province in 1982 and winning the individual championship of the Go project.
Subsequently, Liu Zhongjie defeated several top masters in the Kaifeng Go industry in succession.
Liu Zhongjie's name, which was only a teenager, began to spread word of mouth in the Kaifeng Go community.
In order to improve his chess skills, Liu Zhongjie borrowed Go books and magazines, held these Go "cheats", and studied them repeatedly with hunger. In order to accumulate information, he copied chess scores day and night, many important chess scores, he copied hundreds of pieces.
Over time, the paper that recorded the chess score gradually turned yellow, damaged, and even turned into shredded pieces of paper in Liu Zhongjie's hands, disappearing in the depths of time, but those chess scores and the moves on the chess score were deeply imprinted in his heart and would never disappear again.
▲ The picture shows Liu Zhongjie (right) playing against Naoto Miyamoto in 1997.
Repeatedly won the championship
In 1977, the Kaifeng City Games Go project was held, and Liu Zhongjie participated in the adult competition.
Liu Zhongjie won consecutive battles in this game, defeating Hu Yuzhuan, Wang Wanye and other top masters in Kaifeng City, and winning the championship in one fell swoop.
The event that finally laid the foundation for Liu Zhongjie's "jianghu status" was the Fifth Games of Henan Province in 1982. In this tournament, Liu Zhongjie won the individual championship of the Go event of the Five Games with a record of five wins and one defeat, and won the first gold medal of the Go event for the ancient city of Kaifeng. The second was the first Go Tournament in Henan Province in 1985. After many rounds of competition, Liu Zhongjie, with his strength, achieved a record of nine wins and three losses, steadily entered the top three, and became the first batch of amateur five-dan chess players in Henan Province. There were only three amateur five-dan chess players in our province: Liu Zhongjie, Mu Baolin, and Shang Zhicheng.
Since then, Liu Zhongjie's social work has increased. In Zhengzhou, after training, he obtained the qualification certificate of the first-class referee of Go in Henan Province, and gradually began to engage in The work of Weiqi referee. Subsequently, he obtained a national Go referee certificate.
Liu Zhongjie, who is gradually getting better in the world of Go, also successfully confronted the Japanese Go master, adding glory to Chinese Go.
It was in 1997 at the first "Fujitsu Cup" amateur Go masters competition, Liu Zhongjie won the championship with an excellent overall view and delicate combat methods, with a record of six wins and one defeat. After the award ceremony, the most exciting finale opened. Fujitsu Corporation of Japan, which hosted the tournament, and Naoto Miyamoto, the director of The Kansai Chess Of Japan, reached an agreement before the match, in which Naoto Miyamoto and the champion player played a game of second son. Miyamoto was One of Japan's top chess players, and in the 1970s, he defeated China's top players Chen Zude, Wang Runan, and Hua Yigang with six wins and six wins.
According to the prior arrangement, Wang Runan, then vice president of the Chinese Chess Academy, explained the game. His witty and brilliant commentary has made many chess fans addicted. Wang Runan praised Liu Zhongjie for his broad vision, pushing a major situation, regardless of local gains and losses, and was worthy of being "the first master of amateur Go in the Central Plains". At the end of the game, Miyamoto Naoki, who was in a disadvantaged situation, had to enter a state of contemplation, and the time gradually reached the stage of reading seconds, and the situation did not change. Wang Runan looked at the time and gently said to Miyamoto Naoki that the time had arrived. At this point, Miyamoto looked off the board, smiled heartily, and said, "I lost."
A match between a Japanese nine-dan master and an amateur master in the ancient city of Kaifeng became a good story in the chess world with Liu Zhongjie's victory.
▲The picture shows Liu Zhongjie (center) participating in the 2019 China Go Conference and winning the eighth place in the doubles competition.
Nurture talent
In the 1990s, with the popularity of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, a Go boom arose across the country. The ancient city of Kaifeng is the same, more and more teenagers are eager to learn Go, and Liu Zhongjie has taken on the heavy responsibility of cultivating a new generation of chess players.
At the request of many friends and students, in 1995, Liu Zhongjie opened the Zhongjie Go Dojo and began to set up an altar to teach apprentices.
One morning in 1996, a young boy walked into the Zhongjie Go dojo, his name was Li Tiangang. When he first came, Liu Zhongjie did not pay much attention to this child, and later, he found that Li Tiangang was super calculating, and half a year later, Li Tiangang began to emerge, defeating a number of very talented Go teenagers in succession. Subsequently, in the Go Duan Tournament held in Jiaozuo, Li Tiangang was promoted to the second dan with a score of 11-6 wins.
After that, the king of amateur Go, Li Tiangang, swept the chess world and swept the storm.
In addition to Li Tiangang, the Zhongjie Go Dojo has walked out of professional chess players He Xin, Wang Jiabao and others.
In the Zhongjie Go Dojo, Liu Zhongjie, who has rich experience in teaching, is humorous and funny, elegant and elegant, he integrates advanced teaching experience at home and abroad, starting from the interest of chess children in knowledge and skills, designing personalized courses for the characteristics of chess children of different ages, so that chess children can learn to recognize, learn to constrain, learn to cooperate in an exploratory and inspiring environment, cultivate the optimistic, independent and sunny personality qualities of chess children in happiness, and with its unique education mode, it is well-known in the Kaifeng Go education community.
Liu Zhongjie, who has been committed to doing a good job all his life, has reached a height that is difficult for ordinary people to reach with unremitting efforts. At the same time, regardless of personal gains and losses, he created a platform for the Kaifeng Go community to show his chess skills and improve his skills, and strived to promote the development of Kaifeng's Go cause, which was praised by many chess players.
Under his efforts, the city has successively held the "Fang Di Cup" Central Plains Six Cities Go Team Tournament, the Henan Provincial Chess Association "Chairman's Cup" Go Invitational Tournament, the Sino-Japanese Calligraphy Circle Go Exchange Tournament, the "Jucheng Cup" National Go Tournament, the "Asia Pacific Cup" World (Chinese and foreign) Mingshi Professor Go Tournament and many other Go tournaments. He led the players to participate in the 34th "Evening News Cup" amateur Go Championship and won the team championship. He also coordinated with various parties to promote the settlement of the 35th "Evening News Cup" amateur Go Championship to be held next year in Kaifeng. His efforts have greatly promoted the development of Kaifeng Go activities.
Liu Zhongjie has always believed that Go is the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and at the same time, Go is also a competitive activity. As a chess player who has devoted his life to this field, he will spare no effort to contribute to the development of Go between the inheritance of traditional culture and the development of competitive activities.