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Hara: "The Fourth Man" Yoshoki, quietly rampaging 5 years of the first game, win the right to challenge go 10 dansen
Excerpt from: Asahi Shimbun
Author: Daisuke Koji
Translation and finishing: make excuses to be quiet And come back next time
"The Fourth Man", after 5 years, returned to the Fanqi stage. In the 60th ten-dan battle, Yu Zhengqi's eight-dan was awarded the right to challenge Xu Jiayuan's ten-dan chess. While Reiwa Miyu-u is at the forefront of chasing Iyama Yuta, their predecessor Yu Zhengqi also begins to make a comeback. Including other competitions, Yu Zhengqi's performance is enough to qualify for the "Linghe Four Heavenly Kings".
There are 20 players in this stage of the tournament, and the final is Yu Zhengqi, and Sada Tachibana, who is also 26 years old and also belongs to the Kansai Chess Academy. In last year's kansai chess academy's ranking of wins, Sada Tokushi ranked first with 43 wins, followed by Yu Zhengqi with 42 wins. After defeating the elite players of the Japanese chess academy, the Kansai chess academy met in key matches.
The challengers decided to fight on January 27 at the Kansai Chess Academy. The balance of this game of chess is tilted after more than 100 hands in the middle game.
The best time
Yu Zhengqi's Black 1 and Black 3 began the robbery they were best at. After the White 4 robbery, the Black 5 is the best robbery. After blocking a white chess piece on the right, the unstable black chess in the upper right corner is connected with the black chess piece in the lower right corner. If the white chess piece is off the front, the black 6 can threaten the white chess, so the white 6 cannot be less. The black chess piece produced a black 5 with more than one stone and more birds, and it also became the best time to rob the material.
At this time, Sada Taksushi may have been fighting from white A and black B after exchanging them in white 2. In this way, it is difficult to seal the white chess piece on the right side of the black chess piece, and the black chess piece in the upper right corner is still floating in the center. This is still a good win. The actual combat Black 11's robbery material is also sharp. If the white chess is blocked, the local can carry a lot of eye numbers to live chess, but because of the problem of robbing materials, it can only be replenished in the white 12, which is very bitter. Yu Zhengqi snatched the air while robbing, and the side of the "robbery master" was vividly displayed in this game of chess, and finally won.
No matter who the opponent is
In 2016, he won the right to challenge the throne, sat opposite Yuta Iyama, and stood on the stage for the first time. In the same year, in the Tianyuan War Fanqi, Yili Liao also challenged Yuta Iyama for the first time in the Fanqi. The 2017 Ten Dan War was also awarded the right to challenge. Although they were all rivals, they suddenly became the most powerful contenders to defeat Yuta Iyama. But in 2018, Xu Jiayuan crushed Yuta Iyama's seven crowns, and in 2019, Shino Tiger Maru became the first celebrity less than 20 years old. The pattern of Ichirio, Xu Jiayuan, and Shibano Tiger Maru's Rei and Miyu-u challenging Iyama Yuta was formed, but Yu Zhengqi's figure became less and less conspicuous.
After 5 years of returning to Fanqi, this interval is really too long. "The strength is not good, there is no way", Yu Zhengqi said, "I feel that my mentality has grown a lot compared to 5 years ago." In the past, I was very nervous when the situation was about to win or lose, but now I can face it normally from beginning to end. No matter who the opponent is, it is a battle with yourself, and it feels like a good victory and defeat."
In other competitions, like Ling and Sanyu Wu, they are in the three major title loops of Celebrity, Chess Saint and Ben Infang, and currently rank first with 4 wins and 0 losses. Facing the players of the Kansai Chess Academy, they have not known the taste of defeat since last year. Good results have good confidence, and then they can harvest good results, forming a virtuous circle.
Yu Zhengqi and Xu Jiayuan's record of confrontation is Yu Zhengqi's 5 wins and 10 losses, although he suffered 7 consecutive defeats from 2015 to 2019, but from 2020, he won 4 wins and 2 losses slightly. Both players were born in Taiwan. The last title battle between the two Taiwanese players dates back to the 2004 Ten Dan Battle between Wang Licheng and Zhang Xu, which is the fourth time in 18 years that the two Taiwanese players have met in the Japanese chess game.
"The relationship between the two of us is really good, and Xu Jiayuan is like his own brother." It's really incredible that the two of us can fight in a title battle." I can't see the slightest arrogance, and Yu Zhengqi, who is usually facing, has been very calm from beginning to end.