Which is more important, talent or hard work? It can be said that human beings have been arguing for thousands of years. A well-known quote is that Edison said, "Genius is 99% sweat + 1% inspiration." We have been listening to this sentence since we were young, and it is said that there is a next paragraph to this sentence, which is "Without this 1% inspiration, the 99% sweat is also in vain."
Is there a final sentence, is it a fabrication? I don't know, the internet is also very controversial, and the current mainstream tends to be fabricated and misled translation. But there is indeed a trend in the country that thinks that talent is more important than diligence, denying the role and status of labor and diligence. Now it is difficult to hear such words as "labor creates beauty", "labor creates value", and "happiness is created by labor", which is full of public opinion on how to use money to make money to achieve wealth freedom, how to "lie down and earn" and let money find people. Now it seems that it is the pre-brainwashing of the P2P group of people, who have indeed achieved wealth freedom and money to make money.
So the question is, in Go, the most complex field of human intelligence games, which is more important, talent or diligence? This is a very interesting topic, let's take a look at the two most representative characters of Chinese and Korean Go, Cao Xuanxuan and Ma Xiaochun, what do they think of this issue?
As we all know, both Cao Xuanxuan and Ma Xiaochun are known for their extremely high go talent. Cho Hyun Hyun was already fixed when he was nine years old, and this record has not been broken to this day. Ma Xiaochun was hailed as a go genius at a very young age. Japanese honorary chess saint Hideyuki Fujisawa once said: Tianxia chess talent, Cao Xuanxuan is the first, Ma Xiaochun is the second. Cao Xuanxuan and Ma Xiaochun, who are the first and second in the world of chess talents, talk about which is the most important and can be the most representative, diligence and talent. As the leaders of Sino-Korean Go, their views have also influenced the later achievements and development paths of Sino-Korean Go to some extent.
Let's first look at what Ma Xiaochun said. In 2005, Ma Xiaochun was appointed as the head of the coaching team of the Chinese national Go team, and the media interviewed Ma Xiaochun and asked this question:
Reporter: For chess players, talent or hard work, which do you think is more important?
Orion: Theoretically, of course, both are important, and I personally think talent is a little more important.
That is to say, in Ma Xiaochun's eyes, talent is more important than diligence.
On November 22, 2002, after participating in the last match of the Chinese Siege Division, before leaving, Cao Xuanxuan was interviewed by reporters and told reporters about his impressions of Chinese and Korean chess players: Chinese chess players need to work harder and work harder.
Reporter: Can you give a list of the current levels of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean chess players?
Cho: Chinese and Korean players are very good, but in contrast, Korean players are more diligent and harder. Of course, playing chess is also about talent, but this is only a sufficient condition, not a sufficient condition. In the comparison between China, Japan and South Korea, I think the Korean chess players are undoubtedly the best, while the Chinese and Japanese chess players are relatively close. Judging from the recent situation, China's performance in the world competition is slightly better than that of Japan.
Reporter: In your impression, which Chinese chess players have left the deepest impression on you?
Cao Xuanxuan: In the past, nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun were, and now of course it is Chang Hao.
Reporter: What do you think is the most important thing to become a top chess player, is it fighting spirit, hard work or talent?
Cho: There is no doubt that it is diligence. If geniuses don't have diligence, it can only be a fool's dream. I don't think Ma Xiaochun has made much effort lately.
Cao Xuanxuan: Which of the active chess players do you admire the most?
Cho Hwan-hyun: Lee Chang-ho. He is not only the first person in Korea, but also the first person in the world.
Reporter: When do you plan to play chess? Are you still ready to take in disciples?
Cao Xuanxuan: At such an old age and still struggling in the front line of Go, I feel very tired. But I have no plans to retire, I have been sticking to it. As for the question of disciples, I would like to state that I have not said that I will never accept apprentices again, and if I meet a small chess player with a talent for Go like Lee Chang-ho, I will still recruit him to my subordinates and cultivate them well.
In Cao's eyes, hard work is far more important than talent. He believes that geniuses without diligence can only be fools' dreams.
Born on March 10, 1953, Cho Wonh Hyun won nine world championships and was known as the Emperor of Go, winning the 6th and 7th Three Star Cup World Championships in 2002 and 2003 after consecutive defeats of Chang Hao and Wang Lei, who were post-70s. What is particularly amazing is that at the Nongshim Cup World Go Legend Invitational Tournament in January 2021, facing nie Weiping, Chang Hao, Koichi Kobayashi, Kiki Ieda and other super-first-class players, Cao Xuanxuan won a total victory, and the state remained so long, which is amazing! You know, in this invitational tournament, Chang Hao and Yi Tian Ji both defeated Lee Chang-ho, and Lee Chang-ho has been competing in the Korean Siege Division.
Correspondingly, Ma Xiaochun, born on August 26, 1964, won two world championships, and after being crushed by Cho Hyun-hyun's disciple Lee Chang-ho with 10 consecutive wins, he faded out of the world Go stage early in frustration.
For a long time, Chinese Go players seemed to have nothing to do with diligence. When it comes to Korean chess players, everyone's first impression is that Korean chess players are very diligent, on the contrary, when Chinese chess players are mentioned, everyone's first reaction is to be lazy and not particularly diligent. As if a chess player's diligence means that his talent is not high, diligence and talent have gone against each other, becoming synonymous with low talent. Isn't that ridiculous?
Now some netizens mention Chang Hao, but also said that Chang Hao is very diligent, although the talent is not high, but diligence can make up for the clumsiness........, I am really speechless, Chang Hao's IQ in childhood is genius level good? With 3 championships and 8 runners-up in the World Series, Lee Chang-ho's only contemporary opponent is considered to be insufficient talent because of diligence, what kind of values and cognition is this.
And when Lee Chang-ho is mentioned, it is a word of public opinion: Lee Chang-ho is a genius who works hard, not a real genius. What more can be said about such a view!
China's most diligent chess player, everyone's first impression will think of Chen Yaoye, Chen Yaoye reached the world series final at the age of 15, this is not a genius!
In fact, more diligent than Chen Yaoye is Ke Jie, from 2011 to 2013, Ke Jie played more than 4,000 games of chess with domestic and foreign masters online. Among them, 2012 was a record year for him to play chess online, reaching more than 1600 games, which is equivalent to playing an average of more than 4 games per day.
Ke Jie is not a genius?
On February 4, 2021, in the final of the 25th LG Cup, Ke Jie lost to the more diligent Shin Min- and the first person in South Korea's Go, Shin Jin-chan, known for his diligence, reached the finals of the Ying's Cup and Chunlan Cup early, and Korean Go has a great potential to catch up. The more talented, the more diligent, without the talent to do the foundation of talent, are mirror flowers, empty and worthless.