▲ Go will once again stand on the stage of the Asian Games. 2022 is the year that Go became the second official sport in the history of the Asian Games. Pictured here are South Korean athletes who won three gold medals at the 2010 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Go National Team Coach Mu Zhenshuo: "I want you to feel the meaning of the Taiji national emblem"
According to Hangame, the world of sports in 2022 will usher in a year of abundance. Host the Winter Olympics, Asian Games, and World Cup. The most significant event for the Go community will also take place in 2022.
At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in September, Go was designated as an official sport. This is the second time that Go has participated in the Asian Games since the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, after 12 years.
While there are several Go tournaments with the nature of national tournaments, the Asian Games are special. He wore the Tai Chi national emblem on his chest. The Tai Chi national emblem has magic power, which makes people feel excited and inspires pride. The noble spirit of the Taiji national emblem embodies the support of all the people.
▲ Coach Mu Zhenshuo, who leads the younger generations with diligence and affinity. He is proficient in computer and artificial intelligence Go, and is proficient in foreign languages such as Chinese, Japanese and English.
At the Asian Games in Guangzhou 12 years ago, the taiji fighters in the chess world won gold medals in 3 events. He won the men's team, women's team and mixed doubles competitions. This is an unparalleled joy.
The strategy of the Hangzhou Asian Games is to keep success. Korean Go is doing its best to recreate the glory of 12 years ago. The first thing to do is to form the "Hangzhou Dream Team".
One of the people standing in its center is the commander-in-chief of the Go national team. In the year of the Asian Games, I met coach Mu Jin Shuo and talked. Although they met many times a month, they did not take extra time to meet each other for a long time.
▲Entering the 4th floor of the Korea Chess Academy, the national team standing army training room will appear. Here, the contestants are quenching from morning to night. Round-robin tournaments are held every Monday and Tuesday, in addition to honing their skills online and offline.
Q: The sun is about to shine at the Asian Games. What is the schedule of a Go game?
Mu Jinshuo: "Go will be played for about 10 days from September 12. The men's individual tournament begins first, followed by the men's team and women's team matches. Although the number of medals is the same as the number of medals in Guangzhou, there is a new men's individual battle, and there is no mixed doubles battle. ”
Q: I would like to know the composition of the national team.
Mu Jin Shuo: "It is composed of 6 men and 4 women, 2 of whom compete in the men's individual competition. ”
Q: The selection process is intense, right?
Mu Jinshuo: "I imitated the current World Series selection system. One-third comes from the rankings, one-third is a national team round-robin tournament and one-third is another selection tournament. Based on the March rankings, the top 2 can be dispensed with and 2 are selected from the standing army. The remaining 2 players are selected by all players other than that. ”
Q: When will I see the squad?
Mu Zhenshuo: "If it is fast, it will be completed at the end of April, and it will be completed at the end of May at the latest." Because the deadline is the end of May. After the team is formed, the players who participate in the men's individual competition are selected through selection competitions and other means. ”
▲Mu Jinshuo, who took up the coach of the national team in December 2016, had a discussion with reporters. He said: "We will attach importance to communication with the players, establish a strong sense of mission at close range, and lead the national team decisively and boldly."
The Go National Team was officially established in May 2014. The standing army has always operated in a variety of ways, and now consists of 18 men's standing army, 8 women's standing army, and 8 youth representative teams, a total of 36 people. The coaching team consists of head coach Mu Jin-suk and assistant coach Hong Min-woo as the men's standing army, assistant coach Park Chung-hsiang as the women's standing army, and assistant coach Cho Yin-sun as the youth team.
Q: I won the gold medal in Guangzhou, so the expectations of domestic chess fans are very high. And the project has changed.
Mu Jinshuo: "Although it is not easy, my goal is to win 3 gold medals. The match with China is not easy in any form, so there is nothing special about the event. We have to go all out. ”
Q: The enthusiasm of non-military players also seems to be quite high.
Mu Zhenshuo: "Indeed. In the standing army, Shen Zhenchen and Shen Minjiudan also had some relationships, and Luo Xuanjiudan was also competing for representatives, and if he did not win the gold medal, he had to join the army immediately. ”
Q: Will the composition of the players be converted to the Asian Games system after the completion of the composition?
Mu Jinshuo: "Because there are other competitions, there will be a parallel competition system. We plan to do high-intensity training, but that doesn't mean there are no pandemic restrictions. But it is still more intense than usual. ”
Q: During the Guangzhou Asian Games, you also entered the Tailing Training Institute (a national athlete training base), right?
Mu Jinshuo: If you have the opportunity, you want to do the same this time. "I think it's more important than strength to let the players experience first-hand the significance of wearing the Taiji national emblem on behalf of South Korea." In fact, multi-game is the best training. If there are a lot of games, you will not deliberately arrange a schedule that you don't have, and train hard. Instead, more spirits are implanted.
Q: With the advent of artificial intelligence Go, the training system will also change a lot.
Mu Jinshuo: The work of the coaching staff itself has changed a lot. "In the past, when coaching coach Liu Changhe for 2 years, it was all about reviewing, researching and learning together after the game, but now the role of managers has been greatly improved." On the technical side, players are trained through artificial intelligence, so the role of managers and mentors becomes more important.
▲ Coach Mu Jinshuo and the players and coaches are discussing.
As a professional player, Mu Jin Shuo, who has won four domestic competitions and runner-up in major world competitions, has been the head coach of the national team since December 2016. He is the long-lived coach who has been coaching for more than 5 years after his predecessor Coach Liu Chang hyuk.
Q: What's the point of being a coach?
Mu Jinshuo: Of course, it is time for the players to achieve results in the World Series. At the 2018 Nongshim Shin Ramen Cup, Kim Ji-seok defeated Ke Jie Jiudan to win the championship, which seemed to be the happiest time. Ended China's four-game winning streak. ”
Q: Conversely, what if it's in difficult times?
Mu Zhenshuo: "Until the 2019 Samsung Cup." The first time I told the coaching staff that I was going to resign, they said to work hard for another year..." From Shen Min's nine-dan victory in the LG Cup last year to nongshim Xin Ramen Cup, Chunlan Cup, Samsung Cup, Wu Qingyuan Cup, Guozhi Mountain Range, etc., our players have won the championship.
Q: In the process of coaching the national team, do you have any regrets as a winning division?
Mu Jinshuo: I can't play and explain. "The chess academy is not allowed to be on the show, and the coaching staff unanimously decided to concentrate on being the coach. It was our choice. Full of mission and fulfillment. ”
Q: Among young chess players, if they are potential players, who will they be?
Mu Jinshuo: "If you take Shin Shin-chan as the benchmark for the future, then I have a lot of good references." Although it is difficult to list them all, Kwon Hyo-jin, Li Jun, Jin Fanrui, born in 2005, Han Yujin, Yuan Qixuan, born in 2005, and younger, Jin Shengzhen, born in 2006, and Cui Minrui, born in 2007, are all objects of attention. Female chess players born in 2006 and 07 can be their peers. There is also a strong sense of competition between them. ”
▲In the interview of the Asian Games in Guangzhou, I saw two kinds of tears from the players. Tears of excitement welled up in my heart, and tears of guilt bowing my head.
In fact, there are still many people who do not know that Go is a sport. Many people also asked: "Why sports?"
Long regarded as a cultural ritual, Go has been committed to the transition to sport after entering the new millennium. As a result, in February 2009, the Korean Go Association became the 55th participating competitive group of the Korean Sports Association, and was identified as the official competition project of the 44th National Youth Sports Conference in 2015 and the 97th National Sports Conference in 2016 at the 12th Council of the Korean Sports Association held in January 2015.
Q: Who do you follow among the Chinese players?
Mu Zhenshuo: "Wang Xinghao is very conspicuous, is rising slightly, Ding Hao is the hottest chess player recently." Wang Xinghao may take a while, but Ding Hao is one of the objects that will be immediately contained. "
Q: How do you view the future pattern of the world's Go community?
Mu Zhenshuo: "It seems that it will become an increasingly fierce competitive pattern." This is an era of artificial intelligence, and if you are a diligent and good at accepting artificial intelligence chess players, you have the potential to become stronger. Japan also has a competitiveness that could not be compared to five years ago, although it is not obvious, but Taiwan is also working hard. ”
Q: Is there anything I would like to ask the contestants?
Mu Zhenshuo: "For this year alone, our goal is to win gold at the Asian Games, and I hope everyone will work together." In fact, there are a few who want to go out to participate in the Asian Games, so what I want to say on the whole is that as a chess player's life, 1 or 2 years can't decide anything, some may not go well recently, some may be very tired, but Go is not dependent on 1 or 2 years of success, nor is it 1 or 2 years to determine failure. I hope that in the long run, we will unremittingly hone our internal strength. "Because if I train repeatedly without a goal and am eliminated, I will eventually be exhausted, so I hope that I can set short-term, medium-term and long-term goals and become a chess player."
Q: As a head coach, how many points do you give yourself?
Mu Zhenshuo: "About 80 points?" Will it be too high? [Laughs]"
Head coach Mu Zhenshuo said: "The biggest role of the coaching staff is to create a good training environment to the greatest extent possible." His coaching style is to give the players self-discipline. I want to think and understand myself, and talk when I think it is necessary. This is the fate of the head coach of the national team, and the year of the 2022 Asian Games is greeted with the determination of the final battle.
(Li Xinzhou compiled from Hangame reporter Han Changkui's column)
▲ After the match, the Shen Zhenchen Nine Duan and The Nine Duan of The Harmony Town Shuo in the training room of the National Representative Team are being re-examined.
▲ Coach Mujin Shuo, who is studying the training materials sent to the players.