In competitive sports, the first place is glamorous, and the second place is often comforted by the "loser is king". Today, I will use the story of Nie Weiping to say that "the loser is king", and is it appropriate to describe Nie Weiping with "the loser is king"?
It is said that the first Ying Cup was organized by Mr. Ying Changqi for Nie Weiping Jiudan, who performed very well in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. Nie Weiping's nine dan also lived up to expectations, and many masters reached the final with many masters along the way. In the situation of losing a city first, Nie Lao won two consecutive sets and took the lead first.
At this time, many people will move out of the excuse that Koreans ask for a third-party match, as well as say that Chen Zude's nine dan and chess academy are not. But I think that if Nie Lao didn't go to Hong Kong to play bridge and followed his assistant directly to Singapore, wouldn't the situation be different? Or is the following local Nie Lao coping correctly?
After Nie Veteran defeated Singapore, Cho won nine more world championships, and even defeated Wang Lei to win the Samsung Cup world championship in 2002. Koichi Kobayashi, who is the same age as Nie, was also able to win the Fujitsu Cup in 1997. However, Nie Lao was second in the second place twice after the Ying Cup.
Personally, I think it is caused by Nie Lao's self-control, family situation and self-pressure.
Before the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, Japan preached the slogans of "Cosmic Go First" and "Go Suzerainty", and during this period, "Japan's Six Supers" and South Korea's Cho Kao Hyun appeared. Because of Nie Lao's outstanding performance in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, Japan slowly stopped advocating the slogan of "Cosmic Go First". The Go world also has the saying of "eight supers", that is, on the basis of the Japanese six supers, Nie Lao and Cao Xuanxuan are added. And Nie Weiping beat all the Japanese masters and Japanese chess players in the six super leagues in the ring, and the attention and influence in the world are self-evident. Personally, I think it is precisely because of this "attention" and influence in the world that Nie Veteran's psychological trauma after the defeat of Singapore is huge, and winning less and losing more in the future game with Cao Xuanxuan also has a huge relationship with this matter. The giants of the world lost to Cho Hyun-hyun, who "Koreans can also play Go"? Such a huge setback is something that most people can't afford.
The second is Nie Lao's marriage, no matter what the reason, the marital problem has a huge impact on Nie Lao's career. But the marriage problem belongs to Nie Lao's personal problem, and he no longer speculates.
The third is self-control. In fact, many people have average self-control, and there are very few people who still have strong self-control after suffering great setbacks. Nie Lao may be almost in this regard.
Now when Nie Lao is mentioned, it is either an outstanding performance in the Sino-Japanese Go tournament, or the loneliness when the Ying Cup was frustrated, or the "loser is king" to describe Nie Lao.
In fact, for Nie Lao, I personally think it is not necessary to use the term "the loser is king" to describe.
In the world chess world after World War II, there are few people who can compete with Nie Lao in terms of influence and popularity and contribution. The first is that after Nie Lao played many Japanese masters in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, he changed the perception of westerners about the new Chinese, which was probably only done by Nie Lao Bruce Lee in that period. The second is to cause the go fever, so that the traditional Chinese puzzle game of Go once again takes root in the land of China and blossoms. Third, it is undeniable that Nie Lao's trick in the Ying Cup made Cho Hyun Hyun and Korean Go. If Nie Lao wins the championship, Cao Xuanxuan wins the world championship, I don't know what year and month it is, the rise of Go in South Korea does not know when, the situation of the three kingdoms of Go will not appear so early, so what year and month will Go go to the world?
In short, to use "the loser is the king" to describe Nie Lao, you have to know where Nie Lao 'failed' and where the "king" was. Otherwise, pity Xi Xi's use of "the loser is king" to describe Nie Lao, it is really uncomfortable.