Ma Xiaochun against Lee Chang-ho
On March 18, 1996, in Seoul, South Korea, 31-year-old Ma Xiaochun and 20-year-old Lee Chang-ho won the three-game final of the Toyo Securities Cup Wuban chess final, a long official battle, Lee Chang-ho won half-eyes, and thus began a decade-long Lee Chang-ho era.
As early as 1992, Lee Chang-ho defeated Lin Haifeng in the final of the third Toyo Securities Cup to win his first world championship and still holds the record for the youngest world champion (16 years and 182 days). However, between 1993 and 1995, Lee Chang-ho only won the fourth Toyo Securities Cup. In 1995, Ma Xiaochun won the Toyo Securities Cup and the Fujitsu Cup consecutively, and won the double championship for one year.
The lee chang-ho era has arrived
In March 1996, the double champions Ma Xiaochun and Lee Chang-ho encountered in the final of the Toyo Securities Cup, which was a real battle for supremacy. In the first two sets, the two sides fought 1-1, and in the third set, Ma Xiaochun made a mistake in the final stage, and half-eyed was defeated... If it were not for this reversal, the time for Lee Chang-ho to unify the rivers and lakes might have been delayed, and even other variables are unknown.
Figure 1: Ma Xiaochun plays black against Lee Chang-ho. Both sides of this game of chess have set their minds to compete for power, and the white 56 two-way fly, the chess game has entered the official competition early.
Figure 2: Nearly 200 hands of official skill competition between the two sides of the wrong in and out, Li Changhao at that time claimed that "the official world is the first" is actually not watertight, but only a little stronger than other masters of the same era, but also a little bit of luck. The last moment of white chess should end as shown in the picture, and it will be a situation of half-eye victory.
Figure 3: In actual combat, Lee Chang-ho white chess is in 1 tiger, and black chess has the opportunity to reverse defeat and win at this time. A few steps in this figure are basically inevitable, and it is actually not too difficult to play a black chess hand.
Figure 4: Picking up the picture above, the black 1 reverse closes one eye, and also aims at the broken white chess 2 eyes, which is obviously the largest hand in the whole world at this time. In this way, the last single piece of robbery wins, but the black chess robbery material is advantageous and will win the half-eye.
Figure 5: However, Ma Xiaochun actually ghostly made the god go all the way to the top of the sticky, and the white chess piece went to the 8th place first, and the victory was decided.
Figure 6: The final picture of the game, the black chess piece on the board is 6 mesh ahead, and the white chess piece of Lee Chang-ho wins the half-eye. After the game, everyone, including Ma Xiaochun himself, could not understand the mistake of figure 5 black chess, is this the so-called providence?
Lee Chang-ho defeated Ma Xiaochun on March 18, 1996 in Seoul, South Korea
Awards were presented after the match
After losing the game, Ma Xiaochun confessed that when facing Li Changhao, his mentality was already unbalanced, and the doom of half-eye loss when facing the official victory after that always hung over him. This year, Ma Xiaochun not only lost to Lee Chang-ho in the Toyo Securities Cup, but also lost again in the Fujitsu Cup final in August. Lee Chang-ho won two championships a year, and the total number of world championships reached four, which also began the lee chang-ho era in the world chess world.
(Chess and Card In-depth Reporting Group Xingyu)