"After the end of the South Mountain, the tomb of the living dead, the divine eagle hero, the extinct jianghu", in Jin Yong's martial arts novel, the firm love between Yang Guo and the "aunt" Xiaolongnü does not know how many people envy and yearn for.
Chang Hao, vice chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association and a national player of Go, has a big hobby in addition to playing chess, which is to read martial arts novels.
However, Chang Hao does not need to envy Yang Guo, because he has his own "little dragon girl" - if he is senior among chess players, his wife can really be called Chang Hao's "aunt".
It is not uncommon for a couple of chess players in the World of Go, such as Jiang Zhujiu Rui Wei, who is a famous couple of national players.
Who knew that when Chang Hao announced his love affair, nie Weiping, the mentor of "Chess Saint", expressed his resolute opposition.
Nie Weiping and Chang Hao had a deep affection for each other and were respected by him as if they were fathers. Nie Weiping also treated Chang Hao as a son.
Even when Chang Hao was first involved in a real estate lawsuit, nie Weiping personally came forward to persuade mediation to be satisfactorily resolved.
Why is Master's attitude so impersonal on important marriage matters? Was there any misunderstanding between the champion's master and apprentice?
Young people are fearless
On December 27, 1996, in Tokyo, Japan, faced with a chess game that could only reach the middle game, the Japanese chess player Hero Otake felt incredible and helpless.
Ongoing is the 11th NEC Cup China-Japan Go Tournament. The format of the competition is 7 players on each side, of which 6 men each attack and defend, which is the highlight of the decision of the champion.
Otake is already the last player to play in the Japanese team, and his victory or defeat will directly determine the final outcome of this game.
Hero Dazhu was born in 1942 and is the same age as Chen Zude, the first ancestor of new Chinese Go, and Chang Hao, who sits across from him, is just a 20-year-old boy.
Among the men's players of the Chinese team, Chang Hao is the second novice to appear, three people away from ma Xiaochun, the real ace of the Chinese team.
Recalling the first tournament in 1984, Nie Weiping, as China's last hope, fell three straight games to turn the tide, and then defended the title for three consecutive terms, and was regarded as an "anti-Japanese" national hero by the whole country and led the frenzy of learning Go in the country.
In this ring match, Nie Weiping did not participate, but he still paid great attention to the game, of which Chang Hao, who was brought up by himself in the national team, was undoubtedly the focus of attention.
The men's players of the two sides fought, and Naoki Hagen, the first to appear in Japan, only won one round before being picked off by Chang Hao.
To the shock of the Japanese side, four senior generals, including Wang Licheng, Yanagi Shifu, Noriki Ida, and Kyaw Kobayashi, who were behind Naoki Hagen, took turns to attack, and they could not even turn over the "fence" of the Chinese team, let alone Ma Xiaochun, the coach who was waiting for work in the chess room.
It is a matter of the face of the Japanese chess team, if there can be a glimmer of life, Otake Hero is absolutely impossible to give up.
However, it is a pity that the hero of Dazhu who has been traversing the chess sea for more than 40 years has not been able to find a flaw in Chang Hao's chess layout, although it has only reached the middle game, the ending is already doomed.
Reluctantly, Otake's hero surrendered, and under such a humiliating defeat, the 11th Sino-Japanese Go Tournament had been held, which was suspended by the sponsor NEC Television.
This competition not only announced the complete end of the era when Japan had dominated the top of Go for decades, but also showed Chang Hao's personal identity as Ma Xiaochun's successor and the leader of the third generation of Chinese Go.
The ring leader created by Nie Weiping was finally returned to Zhao by the beloved disciple, and there was no more moving ending than this.
However, the person Chang Hao wanted to thank most at this time was not only Nie Weiping.
The love sinus is just beginning
Chang Hao was able to meet Nie Weiping and really enter the road of professional Go, starting from the 10-year-old in 1986, when he was selected to join the national junior training team and came to Beijing from his hometown in Shanghai.
However, in 1986, Nie Weiping had just become the head coach of the national team, and while ri lied to every opportunity, he also assumed the heavy responsibility of the absolute main force of the Sino-Japanese ring match, of course, there was no effort to practice chess for the junior team.
The seniors who play chess for the junior training team members are mainly from the national team, including both men's and women's teams.
Chang Hao's favorite chess practice object is a female player named Zhang Xuan. The heart of love beauty does not distinguish between young and old, in Chang Hao's first sight of Zhang Xuan, he felt that this big sister who was 8 years older than himself was particularly beautiful.
Although Chang Hao was only 10 years old at the time and did not know what feelings were, his good feelings for "Teacher Zhang" never faded.
Born in Fujian in 1968, Zhang Xuan is only 4 years younger than Ma Xiaochun, and is also the second generation of Go players after the founding of New China.
Among the women's chess players, Zhang Xuan is extremely talented, and together with his sister Kong Xiangming, Rui Qiwei and Yang Hui, he is known as the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the women's team. Kong Xiangming, on the other hand, was Nie Weiping's first wife.
With such a beautiful and excellent opponent as sparring, boring score review has also become a pleasure, Chang Hao's chess skills can be ahead of Zhang Wendong, Zhou Heyang and others who were also taught under Nie Weiping's door, and perhaps Zhang Xuan's imperceptible credit.
1990 was a year of fruitful results for both Chang Hao and Zhang Xuan.
Zhang Xuan won the women's championship of the national individual competition that year. Chang Hao, on the other hand, in Hiroshima, Japan, lifted the grand prize of the 12th World Amateur Go Championship, and Nie Weiping knew that it was time to put him in the official national team roster.
It was also in this year that Teacher Zhang and a five-dan chess player entered the palace of marriage. It's just that her next choice makes everyone feel a little incredible.
Subject to the poor national economy of the mainland at that time, although many people loved Go with Nie Weiping as an idol and role model, there were only a few competitions in The country, and the prize money was very small, making it difficult to support the daily life of a professional chess player.
The dilemma of the women's team is more serious, in addition to the individual competition and the team competition, female chess players need to compete with the male chess players with stronger chess strength in major competitions, so Zhang Xuan must plan a way back for herself as soon as possible.
After some thought, Zhang Xuan decided to cross to Japan in the east, where not only the atmosphere of Go is strong, but also the economic level is much higher than that of the mainland, and he can completely rely on teaching Go and playing games to support himself.
However, for Chang Hao, who has entered the rapid growth of adolescence, this also brings a "good news": because of the decision to study abroad, Zhang Xuan's marriage will soon be unsustainable, and the goddess will return to her single identity.
After Hiroshima returned, Chang Hao had been waiting for the next opportunity to play in Japan.
Determine lifetime
After 4 years, the ninth China-Japan Go Tournament is about to start, which makes Chang Hao's mood very excited.
First, he was finally added to the list of players by Nie Weiping for the first time, which is undoubtedly the recognition and expectation of his own Go level.
The second is that this competition will be held in Tokyo, Japan, Zhang Xuan was once a participant in the second Sino-Japanese ring competition, this competition has a special significance for her, she will definitely appear to watch.
Chang Hao's debut in this competition was not satisfactory, and he lost to Japan's Yamada Norizo in the first game, but due to the 9-month long schedule, he had several opportunities to travel with the team to Japan to watch the follow-up matches.
After all, Chang Hao was already an 18-year-old young man, and when he saw Zhang Xuan again, the other party's still young and beautiful face and gentle and delicate voice had already stirred up real emotions in his heart.
What Chang Hao did not dare to imagine was that in fact, seeing him again, Zhang Xuan's heart was also frightened, only 4 years had not seen, the child who had been bent on going to go at the beginning was now so handsome and generous, and the Yushu Linfeng was now so handsome.
Chang Hao lost the initial battle and needed to review the game, and he very much welcomed Zhang Xuan to join the discussion team. Later, Chang Hao asked Zhang Xuan for her address in Japan, and Zhang Xuan agreed.
This time, Chang Hao did not put all his mind on Go, but took advantage of the opportunity to return to China and prepared a large bag of gifts.
When Chang Hao came to Japan the next time, he knocked on Zhang Xuan's door with his chess friends and a large bag of gifts.
Zhang Xuan spent 4 years in Japan, and she also got a lot of inspiration from Go masters like Wu Qingyuan, but it also made her see the true essence of the Japanese people's seemingly hospitable appearance, cold and exclusive, and only respect for the strong.
The longer he stayed in Japan, the more Zhang Xuan became convinced that the stage must be in China. In 1995, Zhang Xuan returned to the China Chess Academy.
After returning to China, Zhang Xuan loves the motherland more than before, loves Go more, is more eager to play more games, and the national team still welcomes her to join the training, but embarrassingly, she has lost the establishment of the national team.
Fortunately, when the national team was finished after a day of training, there was a small room door that was waiting to be opened for her at any time.
This room is Chang Hao's dormitory, as long as Zhang Xuan does not train with other team members, she can come here, and Chat with Chang Hao while playing chess, with the experience of studying in Japan, Zhang Xuan's points in the Sino-Japanese War are even more into the wood.
In the 10th China-Japan Go Tournament in 1995, Chang Hao was still the first Chinese men's team, he cleanly went straight down to 5 cities, and killed in front of Otake Hero before losing the battle.
In the ring match the following year, Chang Hao did not give the other party a chance and directly ended the tournament that accompanied the growth of Chinese Go.
From the defeat in World War I in 1994 to the final word two years later, the key factor that made Chang Hao produce such a violent chemical reaction was Zhang Xuan.
The year after Chang Haogong became famous, the two finally established a romantic relationship.
Cultivate into positive results
Ordinary people's love marriages, generally get their parents together.
For Chang Hao, there was one person's objection that made him have to consider, that is, Nie Weiping, who had high hopes for him and was also a teacher and father.
Nie Weiping's reason was that Zhang Xuan was not only 8 years older than Chang Hao, but had also been married once.
Chang Hao's mother was a little relieved, so she asked her son: "Many girls like you, why do you like her?" ”
"We can talk about it," Chang Hao replied simply.
Perhaps Nie Weiping remembered the tragedy of his marriage with Kong Xiangming.
Similar to Zhang Xuan, behind Nie Weiping's three-term ring overlord and unlimited scenery, it is actually Kong Xiangming who is willing to give up his identity as the first person in women's Go, and try his best to study the chess score and move rules of each opponent for her husband, and even speculate on the psychology of the opponent.
Who knew that the flowers and applause not only pushed Nie Weiping on the altar, but also pushed him away from his wife, and the marriage between the two came to an end after 12 years.
Ma Xiaochun's first wife, Xu Yan, was also a female Go player, and their marriage lasted only 4 years.
Chinese traditional concept of marriage and the misfortunes of his predecessors have become the biggest stumbling block to Chang Hao's zhang xuan's cultivation. Go is the biggest motivation for the two to get married, but it is not the factor that determines whether the marriage can last.
Fortunately, in addition to appreciating Chang Hao's chess skills, Zhang Xuan paid more attention to Chang Hao's personality.
She found that after Chang Hao became famous, his mentality of treating people and things had hardly changed, and he was still as friendly and amiable as before, thinking about others.
Chang Hao would not blame anyone for the loss, preferring to silently wrong himself, only for Zhang Xuan, Chang Hao would sometimes lose his temper.
Zhang Xuan also understood that this is exactly the big boy with heavy pressure and sense of mission, who has a unique special trust in himself, and he laughs at it every time and never pays attention to it.
And this tacit understanding between the two is exactly what the predecessors lacked.
In 1999, Chang Hao reached the peak of his life, in the chess field, he won four consecutive championships, promoted to the highest nine-dan player in Go; in the love field, he finally ignored the opposition of his mentor and married the beautiful Zhang Xuan into the door.
Happy marriage
Will a smart and strong wife bring Chang Hao, who knows almost nothing but playing chess and having difficulty even taking care of herself, into a shrewd and calculating citizen?
Zhang Xuan had a hard time refuting these words, because in the second year of their marriage, Chang Hao, who was regarded as the third generation successor of Chinese Go, lost to Li Changhao in the Ying Cup and was relegated to the second place.
The Ying Cup was launched in 1988 by Taiwanese entrepreneur Ying Changqi, and the championship prize money was as high as $400,000, which was an astronomical amount at the time and was known as the "Olympic Games of Go".
Unfortunately, such an important event, from the first Nie Weiping regretted the defeat of South Korean star Cao Xuanxuan, to Chang Hao in 2000, until the death of Ying Laozi, he could not see Chinese and picked up his own national trophy.
In the face of the Koreans, Chang Hao failed to continue Nie Weiping's dominance over the Japanese, and the entire Chinese Go world was instead suppressed by the "Cao Li Master and Apprentice".
Was it Zhang Xuan's failure to play the role of xiannei helper? Or was it his daughter Chang Yuemin, who was just born in 2000, forcing his new dad to be unable to concentrate on the tournament?
The husband and wife did not say anything on their lips, back at home, it was still Chang Hao who was responsible for washing dishes, Zhang Xuan cooking and cooking soup, but his wife was dragging Chang Hao down for outsiders to talk about herself, and felt great pressure.
Chang Hao acted as if nothing had happened. He never forgets Valentine's Day or some special days of his wife, and every time he returns from abroad, Zhang Xuan can always receive some small surprises, such as roses, such as perfume.
With a husband like this, Zhang Xuan gradually looked down on the victory and defeat on the field and the discussion behind people's backs, learning to play chess with her husband buried his head, and his smile began to become more easy-going and tolerant.
In 2005, Chang Hao, who adjusted his mentality and started again, finally broke the myth of "invincibility" of Korean chess players, won the championship in the fifth Ying's Cup, realized the will of the old man of Ying Chang period to bring the trophy back to the motherland, and then won the old opponent Lee Chang-ho twice in the 2007 Samsung Cup and the 2009 Chunlan Cup, returning to the peak state.
As Gu Li, Ke Jie and other post-80s and post-90s gradually grew, Chang Hao also began to slowly withdraw from the front-line combat team, and in December 2017, Chang Hao was elected vice chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association, catching up with the position of nie Weiping.
However, the apprentice Chang Hao could be Nie Weiping's teacher in his married life.
Unlike Kong Xiangming, who completely gave up his Go career for her husband and eventually caused tragedy, after getting married, Zhang Xuan could still participate in various Go tournaments at will.
In the year her daughter was born, Zhang Xuan won the third place in the women's championship of the National Sports Conference, and in 2001, she won the Women's Celebrity Championship of the Wave Cup.
However, the daughter could not continue this Go family, and chose to study in the United States at the age of 19.
After Chang Hao became an official, he needed to go to the whole country to participate in more promotion activities of Go culture, and Zhang Xuan, who was happy and idle, had a lot of opportunities to participate in local competitions and enjoy the fun of Go.
Because Nie Weiping originally opposed this pair of "Divine Eagle Heroes", some people believed that although Chang Hao's respect for his mentor had not changed, he would personally come to the door to greet nie Weiping every New Year's Festival, Zhang Xuan was not very kind to Nie Weiping.
On September 18, 2021, Nie Weiping brought Chang Hao and his wife and many Go players into Shenzhen University to participate in the "Shenzhen University 39 Days and Cup" to guide the teachers and students of the university.
In the guest seat, Chang Hao sat on the right hand of Enshi, and Zhang Xuan sat on Nie Weiping's left hand alone, which was probably the best answer to the rumors.