The pattern of the world's Go presents an interesting pattern of feng shui rotation, first from the birthplace of Go and China, where the level of Go is the highest, to Japan; then from Japan to South Korea; and now from Korea to China. In this process, the first person in the country with the highest level of Go is the first person in the world to play Go.
Before the 1980s and 1980s, Japan was the undisputed world number one go player, the region with the most developed level of Go. At that time, Japan was known as the kingdom of Go, and the population of Go reached as many as 12 million. The entire 80s was the peak of Japanese Go. Japan's six super-first-class beings, represented by Hero Otake, Hayashi Haifeng, Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya, Koichi Kobayashi, and Cho Ji-hoon, have become pyramid-like beings.
Later, in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, due to the rise of Nie Weiping, Chinese Go began to rapidly move closer to Japan and catch up. Nie Weiping's 11 consecutive victories in the Go ring forged the glory of Chinese Go and laid the foundation for the rise of Chinese Go.
In the final of the first Ying's Cup in 1989, South Korea's Cho Hyun Hyun defeated Nie Weiping 3:2 to win the first World Championship of the Ying Cup. The rise of Korean Go. Throughout the 90s and before 2010, it was the Era of Korean Go sweeping the world. Especially in the 1990s, the four heavenly kings represented by Cao Xuanxuan, Xu Bongsu, Liu Changhe and Lee Chang-ho swept through The Sino-Japanese Go. Wherever the four heavenly kings went, the Chinese and Japanese chess players turned over on their horses. Especially in the Three Kingdoms Go Arena, South Korea is like probing for things. The fierceness of the Korean Wave makes Sino-Japanese Go almost unable to see the hope of the future.
But in the midst of this Hallyu, there was a special year, and that was 1995. China's Ma Xiaochun won two world championships that year, the Toyo Securities Cup and the Fujitsu Cup. In 1995, there were only two World Championships in the World Go Arena. Ma Xiaochun won all the world championships, so that year was also called Ma Xiaochun Year. According to the standard that the chess player who won the most world championships that year was the world's first person, Ma Xiaochun was the world's first Go player in 1995.
Ma Xiaochun is a chess player who is both envied and regretted. Ma Xiaochun is very talented, when he was young, Mr. Hideyuki Fujisawa, the honorary chess player of Japanese Go, once said: Tianxia Chess Talent, Cao Xuanxuan is the first, Ma Xiaochun is second. The evaluation and expectations are very high. Ma Xiaochun has won 13 consecutive championships in the domestic celebrity war, and this record has not been broken until now.
The times in which Ma Xiaochun was born were very good, and it can be said that it is a historic opportunity. Go really had a worldwide impact, in fact, from the 80s. In 1984, the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament began, and Go became a sports project in China alongside the women's volleyball team, from the national leaders to the ordinary people, who paid great attention to every game of Chinese Go, especially in foreign wars.
World Series are also starting to be held in full swing, and more and more competitions are also being held.
Ma Xiaochun was born in 1964 and belongs to the post-60s generation. At that time, the world's top chess players were Japan's Hero Otake, Hayashi Hae-feng, Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya, Koichi Kobayashi, Cho Ji-hoon, and South Korea's Cho Kao-hyun and China's Nie Weiping. They were all chess players from the 40s and 50s. By the mid-to-late '80s, they were in their forties and five, and they were actually past their physiological peak. And Ma Xiaochun is in his prime, so he has caught up with a good historical opportunity.
The only people who can compete with Ma Xiaochun after the 60s are Liu Changhe of South Korea and Kiki Ieda of Japan.
However, the historical opportunity is fleeting, the rapid rise of Korean Go, in the Sino-Japanese Go is still addicted to the glory of the past, and even have some prejudices about the "barbaric" playing of Korean Go, The Korean Go theory actually leads the Sino-Japanese Go theory, and the Korean Go actually forms a dimensionality reduction blow to The Chinese and Japanese Go, so the Korean Go will "incomprehensibly" sweep the Chinese and Japanese chess world. The Chinese and Japanese chess players all held their breath to defeat South Korea, but they did not learn from South Korea.
Ma Xiaochun's career is relatively short, the main reason is that he was covered up by Nie Weiping's light in China in the early stage. In the 1990s, Ma Xiaochun's radiance was overshadowed by the brilliance of a generation of heavenly pride, Li Changhao. Ma Xiaochun won two world championships and six world runners-up. Four of the six runners-up lost to Lee Chang-ho. There are two, one lost to South Korea's Yoo Chang-hyuk and the other to Japan's Wang Licheng. Liu Changhe has won six world championships in his career.
At that time, most of the domestic public opinion was accusing Ma Xiaochun of not working hard, and now calmly looking back at history, he found that throughout the 90s it was Korean Go monopoly world, the only exception that may be, that is, in 1995, Ma Xiaochun won all the world championships, it can be said that Ma Xiaochun was the first person in the world to go in 1995, and in the era of the Korean Wave, it was actually very difficult and precious.
It was Ma Xiaochun's overlooked glory and the only shining year for Chinese Go throughout the 1990s.