The 2022 Japan Chess Challenge began, and Yuta Iyama attacked the ten consecutive championships. However, the challenger won the first game with great force, and also did his best to taste the taste of "Japan's first man".
Founded in 1976 and the first champion in 1977, the current championship prize is 45 million yen, which is the well-deserved first chess game in Japan, and the owner of the title of chess saint is also known as "The First Man in Japan".
As of the 45th issue last year, the chess holy war had produced only nine champions: Hideyuki Fujisawa (six periods, Lianba), Zhao Zhixun (eight periods, three consecutive periods, four consecutive hegemons), Kobayashi Koichi (eight periods, Lianba), Kobayashi Jue (one period), Wang Licheng (three periods, Lianba), Yamashita Keigo (five periods, four consecutive hegemons), Naoki Hane (two periods, Lianba), Zhang Xu (three periods, Lianba), AndaYama Yuta (nine periods, Lianba).
It can be seen that except for Kobayashi Jue, who has only one accession to the throne, everyone else has a record of continuous hegemony. Not counting the final format of the first period, in the 44 challenges that have ended, the defender has won 33 times, and the challenger has won only 11 times.
Chess is a title that all professional Japanese chess players dream of, but it is difficult to realize their dreams. Even the six super-first-class who created the golden age of Japanese Go, only two of them have ascended to the throne of chess, and the other four have repeatedly challenged and returned without success, leaving a lifetime of regrets.
The first person in the Six Super Leagues to step onto the stage of the Chess Challenge was Mr. Masao Kato. He challenged Hideyuki Fujisawa at the age of fifty-three in the second installment, and was unanimously optimistic before the game. After the seven victories began, Kato quickly took a 3-1 lead, one step away from the chess saint. But the tenacious Mr. Hideyuki desperately fought to kill Kato Dairyū in the fifth set, and the cliff was restrained. When Kato, who was black in the sixth set, gained an overwhelming advantage, he had a fatal illusion -
The sixth game of the second japanese chess challenge
Hideyuki Fujisawa holds a picture of the situation of Masao Kato
When White 1 mentions robbery, Black 2 is like a blind robbery, ignoring The good hand of White 3. After the white 5, the black chess center could not escape, and the situation was reversed in one fell swoop.
This is a miss in what has been called one of the "three blind robberies in history". After Kato lost a good game, the decider achieved a great advantage, but after giving in step by step, he pointed out the wrong eye, and the chess piece that won the half eye thought that he was going to lose with half eye, walked out of the defeat, and finally lost half eye...
Mr. Kato suffered a tragic reversal, and that seven-fold victory and defeat is also a classic in the history of contemporary Go, but the pain of the loser cannot be healed. Since then, Masao Kato has challenged Kobayashi Koichi's chess throne three more times, all of which have been defeated, including two 3-4, including another 3-1 after being reversed.
None of the four challenges to the Chess Sainthood were successful, and Mr. Kato was arguably the saddest challenger in the history of chess Holy War.
Kato was defeated by Hideyuki
The second six-super player to appear on the stage of seven victories and losses in the chess holy war is Lin Haifeng, who challenged Hideyuki Fujisawa in the fourth chess holy war, losing 1-4. Two years later, Mr. Lin made a comeback and won the sixth challenge. This time Lin Haifeng played well, leading 3-2 in the first five innings and reaching the top. In the sixth game, Lin Haifeng's whitening was already a must-win trend, and in order to seize the moment of the handover of the chess saint, the reporters were crowded together at the door of the game room. Who expected Providence to make people, Reading the seconds urged Mr. Lin to walk out of the big loss -
Japan's sixth chess challenge is the sixth round of seven wins and losses
Hideyuki Fujisawa is in charge of the situation map of Kurokatsu Hayashi Haifeng
The black 1 break was Xiu Xing's last attempt, and he was planning to take two steps and throw it. White 2 defeat! At this time, the white chess piece can be smoothly contacted by walking 11 places.
In actual combat, Mr. Lin miscalculated, the middle abdomen formed a robbery, and the victory and defeat were reversed after the black chess was eliminated.
The seventh game was Xiuxing's white famous game, Lin Haifeng lost 3-4, and watched Fujisawa Hideyuki achieve the great feat of six consecutive chess saints.
Two years later, Lin Haifeng challenged Zhao Zhixun in the eighth chess holy war, winning two consecutive victories after three consecutive defeats, exhausting the sixth set, and failed to repeat the good play of the previous year's reversal of Zhao Zhixun in the Fang Battle.
Lin Haifeng challenged the chess saint three times without success, and like Masao Kato, he lacked the largest chess saint laurel in the seven chess battles.
The hero of Otake, who is equally famous as Lin Haifeng, won the challenge for the first time in the fifth chess holy war, and lost 0-4 to Hideyuki Fujisawa, giving his opponent a five-consecutive hegemonic gift. This is not the end, nine years later, Otake once again challenged the chess saint, against the master and disciple Kobayashi Koichi, 1-4 defeat, once again became the opponent to achieve the last step of the five consecutive championships.
As an aside, Cho Ji-hoon's celebrity Wu lianba and Kobayashi Koichi's celebrity wulian ba were all completed after defeating Otake, and Mr. Ohtake really likes the beauty of adulthood.
In 1985, the ninth phase of the Cosmic Liuwu Palace Masaki first appeared on the stage of the Chess Saint Challenge, and performed the classic seven victories and defeats of the great collision of heaven and earth with Zhao Zhixun. In the good situation of 3-2 lead, Wu Gong's last two games were all black as desired, but the sixth game was defeated by Zhao Zhixun into a live chess game, and the seventh game was slightly worse against the number of eyes, and the chess saint throne passed by.
In the 11th and 13th chess holy battles, Takemiya challenged Kobayashi Koichi twice, both of which were defeated 1-4.
Mr. Takemiya was once the "King of the World", but he did not have the opportunity to start the Takemiya era in Japan.
Wu Gong and Zhao Zhixun will hunt the top of the Chess Saint
Four super-first-class players have failed to challenge the chess saint a total of 12 times, and the two youngest of the six super players have carved deep marks on Japan's biggest chess game.
Zhao Zhixun's first appearance on the chess holy war challenge stage was the seventh period, three consecutive defeats and four consecutive victories against Hideyuki Fujisawa, writing a legend. He won the chess throne eight times, but he was also depressed. In 1994, Zhao Zhixun took revenge on Kobayashi Koichi in the 18th Chess Holy War and returned to the throne, but unexpectedly lost 2-4 to kobayashi Kyaw in the following year. Although he regained the laurel the following year, after four consecutive championships, when striving for five consecutive championships, he lost 2-4 to Wang Licheng and did not have the opportunity to obtain the honorary chess qualification, which was also a major regret in Zhao Zhixun's career.
In 2008, the 56-year-old Zhao Zhixun once again won the Chess Saint Challenge, challenged Keigo Yamashita, and struggled to tie the score after 1-3, but unfortunately the decider failed to withstand, and he also bid farewell to the stage of seven victories and losses.
Cho Ji-hoon reversed Hideyuki Fujisawa
Koichi Kobayashi is the most proud of the chess holy war among the six supers, and he defeated Zhao Zhixun 4-2 in the 10th chess holy war in 1986, becoming the first person in Japan. It was that challenge that left a classic picture of Zhao Zhixun sitting in a wheelchair to play the game.
Since then, Kobayashi has achieved the eight consecutive championships of chess and become the absolute king of Japanese Go. After the age of 60, Kobayashi has been revered as the "Honorary Chess Saint of Kobayashi", which can be described as the glory of chess for life, and the biggest achievement of his career is whitehead.
Koichi Kobayashi, after being retaken by Zhao Zhixun from the chess saint position, also had another attempted challenge to Zhao Zhixun, and he also had regrets.
A duel in a wheelchair
Kobayashi achieved the honor of honorary chess saint, celebrity, and sage
In the overall inventory, the six supers played a total of 34 chess holy wars and won seven times, with a total score of 16 wins and 18 losses (including mutual confrontation), and they and Mr. Hideyuki Fujisawa became the absolute protagonists in the early stage of the chess holy war. However, in the end, the world of victory and defeat is still more regret than harvest, and the higher the standing, the higher the requirements. For chess players of this level as the Sixth Super League, their regrets often mean the legend of their opponents.
Human beings compete with each other and achieve each other.