Japanese Go master Hideyuki Fujisawa once said in the early 1980s that there are only two geniuses in the world chess world, one is South Korea's Cao Xuanxuan, and the other is China's Ma Xiaochun. At that time, many people did not think so, but since then, the development of the two has almost confirmed that the old man is true to this statement.
Ma Xiaochun debuted very early, and soon became a good hand under one person and above everyone in China. Ahead of him at the time was Nie Weiping, the hero of Chinese Go. It should be said that Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun are both leaders in the Chinese Go world, and the two were born in 1952 and 1964 respectively, and both belong to the dragon. Nie Weiping defeated Chen Zude in 1975 to win the national individual championship and became the new leader of Chinese Go.
Nie Wei PingQi Sheng
Ma Xiaochun's pursuit speed was extremely fast, and in 1982, he won the national individual championship and the national hand championship, and the double crown was in hand. From then on, the two began to compete with each other, and they were not convinced of each other (of course, referring to a Game of Go, not anything else). In the autumn of 1982, Shanghai Weiqi Monthly Magazine held the "Go Championship". Ma Xiaochun, as the national Go champion that year, was invited to participate in the men's competition and played against Nie Weiping. From September 23 to November 2, the two fought in Beijing and Shanghai, which was the first "Niema War". The game was a thrilling draw, with the first four sets drawn 2-2 between the two sides. In the decider, Ma Xiaochun lost to Nie Weiping 3/4 and missed the championship with a total score of 2-3. Since then, the Chinese chess world is generally considered to have entered the "Nie Ma era", which lasted for about 13 years.
After that, Ma Xiaochun gradually found a good strategy to deal with Nie Weiping, successively defeating his opponents 3:1 in the New Sports Cup in 1984, winning 2:1 in the first Tianyuan Battle in 1987, then Nie Weiping in the first Chess King Battle in 1990 with a 2:1 victory, Ma Xiaochun won 3:2 in the Fourth Celebrity Battle in 1991, the third Chess King Battle in 1992 was won by 3:0, and the sixth Tianyuan Battle in the same year Nie Weiping was also colored 3:1.
Nie Ma competed for who was the first to win, so in 1994 by the "Xinmin Go" monthly magazine specially organized the Nie Ma Seven Chess Battle staged, and finally Nie Weiping won three consecutive victories and three consecutive defeats, and the final game was a thrilling victory, with a 4:3 victory.
Ma Xiaochun in Guli
At this point, Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun fought 3:4 in the Battle of Fanqi, Nie Weiping won a seven-game chess, a five-game chess and a three-game chess, and Ma Xiaochun won three five-fold chess and one three-time chess. It can be said that Ma Xiaochun has not lost to Nie Weiping at all in the civil war, and other domestic masters such as Liu Xiaoguang, Cao Dayuan, Jiang Zhujiu, and Qian Yuping are not small, so it is worthy of the name to call Ma Xiaochun a domestic dragon.
However, unlike Nie Weiping's identity as a foreign war dragon, Ma Xiaochun's foreign war has been criticized, and he is almost grainless in international competitions, and it is not too much to call him a foreign war worm.
Nie Weiping' record against Japan as the hero of the 11 consecutive victories is notorious, and he has turned the tide many times; he has reached the final four several times in the world individual competition, including two finals, although they have failed, but they are far ahead of the Chinese chess players.
Ma Xiaochun was lackluster, and the only thing he could do was to reach the semi-finals of the 5th Fujitsu Cup in 1992, and then lost to the veteran super-first-class chess player Hero Otake, who won the only world championship in his life. At that time, many chess fans, including me, were "indignant" at Ma Xiaochun and were angry at him and did not complain about his misfortune. Even the younger Qian Yuping has entered the threshold of the final, and Ma Xiaochun is still a look of indisputable life.
It is gratifying that after three consecutive years of defeat to Koichi Kobayashi in the Three-Game Battle of China and Japan, Ma Xiaochun's bloodiness was finally awakened, and in 1992 he defeated Kobayashi 2:1 for the first time.
Ma Xiaochun nine paragraphs
In the torment of time, in 1995, Ma Xiaochun was able to succeed in this year's foreign war, from insect to dragon, and finally completed the transformation. At the 6th Toyo Securities Cup that year, he passed the hurdles all the way, defeating Yin Xuanhao and Wang Licheng successively, and then defeating Cao Xuanxuan, the only four-time champion in the world chess world at the time, in the semi-finals, and entered the final with Nie Weiping. In the end, he defeated Nie Qisheng 3:1 and became China's first World Champion of Go, leaving behind the panic of the World Series champion who had been suppressed in the Chinese chess industry for seven years. In the final of the 8th Fujitsu Cup in the same year, Ma Xiaochun defeated his old rival Kobayashi Koichi to win the championship again, becoming the second world's top master to win the double championship in one year after Cao Kaoru.
A single flower is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in the spring and fill the garden. Looking back on the era of Nie Ma competing for dominance, we hope that there will be more Gu Li in the chess world, more Ke Jie, and fight each other to compete and compete, otherwise Gu Li and Ke Jie will appear lonely and slack when they are alone on the top. Chess fans, do you think so?