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Hara: [Go world 2022 highlights] Yuta Iyama five crowns, recapture of the world champion Nakamura Violet 2nd dan is the year of the game
From: Yahoo Japan
Author: Yukiko Naito
Translation and Finishing: Making Excuses for Quiet The game is really fun
At this year's "Go Festival" on January 5th, at the "Opening Chess Ceremony", all the title holders made speeches, and players such as Xu Jiayuan Shidan and Aishano Beauty Liu Qisheng said: "This year I want to get good results in the world championship."
So today I will introduce the major points of the Go world in 2022.
The successive World Series is worth paying attention to
In the Japanese Go world in 2022, the most important thing to pay attention to is the World Series.
The third phase of the Nongshim Cup, which began last year, will be held from February 21 to February 25, and the Nongshim Cup is a ring match between China, Japan and South Korea.
Yuta Iyama, who played in the second stage, has won four consecutive wins, and now Japan is the closest team to win the championship and has ensured a finish above the runner-up. If the championship is won, it will be the second time in 16 years, and it will be a very happy moment for Japan, which has long lost to The Chinese and Korean Go.
Yuta Iyama is stronger than when he won seven crowns in 2016 and 2017, and has won four consecutive rounds in the Nongshim Cup. There are still 5 games left in the end, and we can expect Yuta Iyama to stand to the end, while the Japanese team also has a good performance in the world series, Ichiri Liao jiu dan and Yu Zhengqi eight dan.
Hopefully, the Japanese team will launch a shock towards the long-lost championship.
In addition, the 2022 Asian Games were held in China in mid-September this year, and Go, as an intellectual sport, has once again become an official event after three sessions after the 2010 Asian Games. At the Asian Games, there will be three competitions in "Men's Team", "Women's Team" and "Men's Individual", and Japanese chess players will participate in all competitions.
Chess players who usually wear formal clothes will wear the same sportswear as the Olympic athletes. Including doping tests, Under the same rules as the Olympics, Japanese chess players will hit the championship.
Yuta Iyama hit the key node of the Seven Crowns
Previous year, Ling and Mitsuba Came to the fore, and thought that Japanese Go would also enter the generational transition, but last year, Yuta Iyama returned from the Triple Crown to the Five Crowns, and the Nine Dans of The One Force Liao and the Nine Dan of Shibano Tiger Maru fell to no crown.
Studying AI is a compulsory course for chess players now, and Yuta Iyama has played his personality well after making the idea of AI his own thing. I can come up with a means that goes beyond AI predictions. In addition, in last year's title battle, he was consecutively taken by the opponent to get the match point, but it was impressive to calmly pull back the situation in this situation. Recently, I have also carried out mental exercises and received good results.
Yuta Iyama will start the first tournament of the year in the defensive battle of the chess holy war on January 13, and Yuta Iyama, who currently maintains 9 consecutive championships, will attack the 10 consecutive championships. In addition, from the spring onwards, it will impact the unprecedented Ben in fang 11 consecutive hegemony. If the title is defended for five times, it is expected to impact the third exclusive seven crowns. However, in the ten-dan battle played in March, Yuta Iyama has already lost out, so the fastest return to the seven crowns will not be until April 2023.
Further manifestations of young people
At the end of last year, it was the big dark horse Guan Hang Taro Tianyuan who won the title of Tianyuan from the hands of Yili Liao Jiudan.
Kwan Hang Taro is known as an "AI sommelier". Looking at the opponent's chess moves, you can "taste" what kind of AI the chess player is using, so the name is used. No other chess player can do this. Young people who were previously trained by unimaginable exercise methods are still worth paying attention to this year.
On January 13, the chess holy war will begin. The challenger is Ichigoku kudan, who fought Against Yuta Iyama in the Battle of TheOrygi and the Battle of Fame last year but was ultimately defeated, and perhaps the title of Tengen was also taken away by Kwan Hangtaro. Whether it can make a comeback from a crownless title will be related to the overall trend of the Japanese Go community this year.
The performance of female chess players, Zhongyi Yan's key year
In the 2021 multi-win list, the first place is Ueno Aiji Beauty Liu Qisheng, who has 54 wins and 25 losses, the second place is Xu Jiayuan Ten Dan, who has 45 wins and 21 losses, and the third place is Zhongyi Yan 2 Dan, who has 43 wins and 18 losses.
Ueno Aisami and Nakaehito have a certain advantage over male chess players because they can participate in tournaments limited to young chess players, and even so, their records are very good.
Aishami Ueno won the championship by defeating male chess players in the Wakaki Battle limited by young chess players, and her strength is no less than that of male chess players. Like Fujisawa's four crowns, she is expected to become the first female chess player to enter the circle of circulation.
In the press conference of the new first paragraph, Zhongyi Said: "I want to win the title when I was a junior high school student." If you want to win the title, how much you can win this year will be a key factor. If the strength reaches close to those two chess players, it is expected to achieve good results in the World Series. At present, it is the fastest time to increase chess, and every moment at this time is very critical, and I hope that Zhongyi can spend a full year.