Japan's 25th Docomo Cup Women's Chess Jihad Finals were won three times on January 20 and 27, and the defending champion Aimi Ueno went down two consecutive cities, and the zero-sheet challenger Suzuki Bu came behind in the three consecutive years of the showdown between the two, winning 5 million yen (about 276,000 yuan) of championship prize money. This scene is very similar to 2012-2014, after the predecessor Aoki Kikuyo accidentally picked out Xie Yimin, Xie Yimin returned the following year, repelling Aoki's challenge in the third year. The go game is still the world of young people.
Japanese women's chess jihad fixed pre-match group photo.
In this competition, Suzuki won the challenge right by winning consecutive victories over Miori Shimosaka, Tsuyoshi Naka, Chiei Xiangi and Chiyo Kato. The women's two finalists, Riri Fujisawa and Xie Yimin, were eliminated by Chiharu Kato and Chiei Xiang respectively, showing the uncertainty of a 30-second step of fast chess. However, being able to compete for the championship with Aishomi Ueno for three consecutive terms can also show the stable strength of Suzuki Bu.
Kato Chiyuki, suffering from osteogenesis imperfecta, is much shorter than Fujisawa Risai sitting in front of the chessboard, but her tenacity can be called a model in the chess world, and this reversal victory is the only game that Fujisawa Risai has lost to a Japanese female chess player in 2021.
In addition to the upset elimination of Fujisawa Risai, Chiyuki Kato from chubu also defeated two women's predecessors in Tokyo and Osaka, Eimi Oyama and Noriko Takako, and scored the challenger decision match for the first time in her career, and the game of chess that lost to Suzuki Bu was not without opportunities. The ambitious and strong Kato Chimitsu is showing the soft but rigid side of Go to the world.
The first victory in the stage was in the women's chess holy battle, and Zhongyi, who had entered the tournament for three consecutive years, was already a small adult. This time, she slaughtered Wang Jingyi in the first round of a forty-eight-son Heavenly Dragon, and the second round was unfortunately reversed by Suzuki Bu.
In 2020, Suzuki made her debut on the stage of the women's chess jihad final at the age of 37, and was able to pick out the "hammer girl" Ueno Aisami, who was eighteen years younger than her. In 2021, Ueno stormed back, and the two fought until the last set to score the winner. In the third year of the final meeting, Ueno's chess style has changed slightly, and with several years of decisive battles being dragged into the second half of the round, Ueno realized the importance of improving the level of officials, and this final is the best testing ground.
The first round of the final was held at the Sun Garden Hotel in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture in the 22nd year of tradition, and the veteran super-first-class Ishida Yoshio set up a commentary board in the hotel's church.
The first set was blackened by Aishomi Ueno, and the start was as proactive as ever. It may be that the experience of the first two years of fighting made Suzuki choose to hold the weight first, steadily and thickly extend the strategy of winning and losing, but Ueno is no longer what it used to be, and the long official battle did not have serious omissions, but instead freely scavenged the thin taste of the white chess, maintained the slight advantage until the end, and won with a narrow victory of 1 and a half eyes.
Hiratsuka City is where a generation of great masters, Kitani Shigeru once lived, and he opened the Kitani Dojo here, and the peach and plum are full of blessings. In 2022, the Women's Chess Holy War invited Kitani's granddaughter Kobayashi Izumi to serve as the first game organizer, and Kobayashi Izumi found a black-and-white dim sum commemorating Kitani's Go theme in the "Luyue hall" next to Hiratsuka City Station.
A week later, the second game was held at the Dragon Star Studio on the basement floor of the Japan Chess Academy in Tokyo. The two sides began a fierce battle above, and the black Suzuki stepped to attack, and the situation prevailed. However, the battle shifted to the bottom, and the black 125 and 135 were weak in two steps, and they failed to play the strongest hand of the attack, and the winning rate was reversed instantly. Kanko Battle Ueno Aisami worked diligently, never made any mistakes, and won a 5-and-a-half-eye victory.
The second inning was a final moment.
In 2021, with a record of 54 wins and 25 losses in the whole year, Ueno set a record for the highest number of female chess players in the history of Japanese chess players, and also ranked first among all the chess players in the Japanese chess academy. Over the years, Ueno has defended the title of women's chess saint with a clean sheet, continuing to maintain the upward momentum of standing side by side with Fujisawa Risai.
After the realization of the defense of the title, the smiling Ueno Aisami. Eight years ago, in 2014, Xie Yimin had the last laugh in the final battle with Kikuyo Aoki for three consecutive years, and since then achieved the women's chess championship in one fell swoop. Today's Ueno is also interrupted by her predecessors after the second consecutive hegemony, and then wins two more times, will she catch up with Xie Yimin's consecutive hegemony and win the championship record?