When are you the first in Japan? Just today, just today.
On the afternoon of March 18, 2022, the 46th Chess Holy War 7-piece Chess Decider was over, and the black-handed Liao Jiudan stubbornly defended his third match point, winning the mid-game victory over Yuta Iyama and crowning the first chess title of his career with a total score of 4:3.
The 46th Chess Holy War Challenge is the 7th round of 7 pieces
Yuta Iyama
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Yuta Iyama bowed down to show his concede
After winning the game, Yili Liao rewrote the record of the two sides to 21:34, and there is still a long way to go before the draw. Looking back at the official confrontation record between Yililiao and Yuta Iyama, the earliest can be traced back to February 2, 2015, when Yililiao defeated Yuta Iyama in the semi-finals of the NHK Cup. On August 1, 2016, Yili Liaozhibai defeated Iyama again in the Dragon Star Wars final, taking a 2:1 lead against the first Japanese Go player at the time, and no one doubted that he would become the successor of the Japanese chess world in the future. It's just that the twists and turns in between, no one expected.
From December 1, 2016, when the tianyuan challenge match wubanqi lost the third game of "The Battle of Tianwangshan", to February 15, 2018, the chess holy war challenge was 4 sets of clean sheets, and Yili Liao had 5 consecutive finals and 4 games against Taishan-like Yuta Izuyama, tasting the pain of 13 consecutive defeats. Such a one-sided failure, the cause of the defeat is obviously beyond the technical level, all the way to the smooth sailing, encountered the biggest crisis of his career.
In the eyes of most people, Yili Liao has missed his time. After the losing streak, nicknames such as "one dragon per game" and "captain of the well protection" spread among Chinese chess fans, and everyone mentioned Yili Liao as a joke and ridicule. Although the Japanese chess world is the dominant family of Yuta Iyama, the siege of Yuta Iyama by the Qunxiong has never stopped. In 2018, Zhang Xu seized celebrities, Xu Jiayuan won the title of Qisheng; in 2019, Daisuke Murakawa was promoted to nine dan, and Shibano Tiger Maru also stole the throne of Ieyama. The hilarity is all other people's, the so-called "Linghe Sanyu Wu", only One Li Liao has not yet received the title. Defeating Ding Hao in 2019 to reach the top eight of dream lilies is far from enough to prove himself.
In March 2020, Kazulio graduated from Waseda University and has since joined the family business Hebei New Press. PlayIng Go or inheriting the family business? People at the time joked so. At this time, the confidence of the broken force has been gradually consolidated, and in June 2020, in the Jihad, which was sponsored by his own company, he took over the first title of his career from the hands of his predecessor Naoki Hane. After that, Ichirio took advantage of the Tianyuan Challenge in December, defeating Yuta Izuyama for the first time, winning the second title and rising to the ninth dan. In the international arena, he reached the final four of the Ying Cup, creating his personal best in the World Series. Everyone retracted the sarcastic words of the past, he was the "real dragon brother", and the joke contained the respect of the crowd.
In the eyes of everyone, the force that has taken the true scripture has encountered his eighty-first difficulty, and 2021 is the year that Yuta Iyama broke out again (I don't know how many times), returning to the five championships and creating a record of four consecutive wins in the Nongshim Cup in the international arena. Yili Liao lost the title of Qi Sheng in his hand in August, allowing Yuta Iyama to return to the 4 crowns after 8 months; in December, he lost the unknown Guan Hangtaro, achieving the record of the youngest Tianyuan of the other side, and he himself was reduced to Bai Ding.
The Japanese Chess Academy does not have a rank score ranking, and only ranks according to the winners of the seven titles. Chess Holy War is the highest status and most prize money competition among the seven title battles, and if you get a chess saint, you will become the first person in Japan that year, followed by celebrities, Ben in fang, thrones, Tianyuan, Qisheng, and Shidan. In 2021, the 46th chess holy war group S round-robin circle won 5-0, and the change was a three-game straight game to defeat Shibano Tiger Maru, who was the first in group A, and won the right to challenge the chess holy war. After four years, Yi Li Liao once again returned to the chess saint challenge field, and the man sitting opposite was still Yuta Iyama.
Not many people are optimistic about Yili Liao. In 2021, Yuta Iyama's anti-heaven performance makes people believe that aging is far away from him, and Ichirio can't even withstand the impact of Guan Hangtaro. However, the four consecutive wins in the Nongshim Cup in December 2021 seem to consume a lot of energy from Mrs. Iyama, and in early 2022, his state declined significantly, and the chess holy war was carried out to the fourth set, and Iyama once again gave his opponent a half-eye victory due to an outrageous mistake before the final set, such a reversal appeared more than once in the entire 7 pieces. Yi Li Liao actually won the match point with a score of 3-1.
Yuta Iyama's nine consecutive championships are already the highest record for chess holy battles, but who doesn't want to be perfect? The will of the fighter supported him to break through 2 match points in a row and came to the decider of 7 pieces. Is it necessary to complete the performance of Yuta Iyama 2 chase 3?
The location of the decider is the Renwa-ji Temple, which was completed in 888 AD, and the late cherry blossoms here are extremely famous for the latest blooming in Kyoto, when they have not yet reached their flowering stage, but the allergic physique of Ichigo Liao is already "snotting" in the competition. The weather that was sunny and rainy first should probably be more in the mood of Yuta Iyama, who had a day of concave shape, and the next day when he attacked the right upper dragon, he entered a force and entered the Liao, and there was no chance to fight back. Insisting until 7:01 p.m., Yuta Iyama bent down to signal the thrower to admit defeat, and won the 7th game of the chess holy war with 199 hands, crowning the title of chess saint for the first time, becoming the first person in the Japanese chess player sequence this year.
Guess before the game
Final game salute
Yuta Iyama 复盘
Whether it is the direct award of the title of "Honorary Chess Saint" by Shi Lianba, or the title of Chess Saint for the first time, or the position of the first person or the prize of 43 million yen (equivalent to about 2.3 million yuan), everything in Renhe Temple in these two days is only a game of victory and defeat. After the game, Yuta Iyama smiled and tried to complete the chess with the same force, as a chess player, it is also a kind of cultivation to get used to this whole monotonous cycle. The young YiLi Liao was mixed with excitement in the post-match interview, and his voice could not help but be a little choked. The 2022 campaign has just begun, and they don't even know their Chunlan Cup signing position after two days of closure.
Ward off evil swords
(Image courtesy of Japan Chess Academy and Yomiuri Shimbun)