Japan's newly founded Teikei Cup LegendAry Tournament was inaugurated on March 18 at the Japan Go Shogi Channel Studio in Tokyo. In this tournament, Yuichi Yuanda, who has passed through the three levels of Hosaka Cocoon, Cho Ji-hoon and Kobayashi Kyaw, defeated female chess player Kikuyo Aoki in the final, and he was known as the "Kansai Cosmic Stream" for the first time in his career to win the championship in Kanto. Born in 1952, Yuichi Yuan's record of winning the championship at the age of 70 is quite rare even in the Seniors Tournament.
Yuichi Yuantian's famous saying is "do not chase beauty", metaphorically referring to the world of Go can not eat lone chess, the dragon is like a beauty, the more chased the faster it is, only from the beauty of the people around the start, winding attack can have a chance.
The first TEIKEI Cup Legends tournament will start qualifying in October 2021 and the tournament will start in January 2022. This tournament is contested by Japanese chess players over the age of 60, and the 1st TEIKEI Cup Women's Legendary Final Four is invited to enter the tournament directly, and since the latter's age limit is only 45 years old, this senior chess tournament is more competitive for female chess players. In the past, the super-first-class were defeated, and the Wugong Masaki layout stage was still under Zhao Zhixun, and Zhao Zhixun quickly lost to Yuichi Yuantian, who was influenced by AI and also abandoned the external situation.
In the first round of this tournament, Kato Tomoko's victory over Kunio Ishii was a strange game, the 81-year-old Ishii Kuni had a wonderful move in the first half of the game, and the winning rate remained high for a long time, but the more the losses in the upper left battle, to 137 hands saw that they could not do work, and the mood was bad and simply conceded defeat. But in fact, if it ends elsewhere, it is still a long-term war.
The eighty-year-old "two-piece waist" Lin Haifeng defeated The Chinese Guangdong Chess Player Chen Jiarui in the first round of this tournament, ending a year-long ten-game losing streak, but in the second round, he lost only 71 hands to Sugito Sugito's female apprentice Tomoko Kato, which was lamentable. Kobayashi Hikari's one-day closing kung fu was also gone at any time, and the quarterfinals were defeated by Aoki Kikuyo in the quarterfinals. In addition, Wang Licheng, Satoshi Kataoka, and Taimasa Hagen, who have won the Japanese championship, have not been able to pass the preliminary selection, and it is difficult to lose to their contemporaries in their peak careers, and the impact of age on professional chess players is indeed unparalleled.
Lin Haifeng, who is known for his tenacity and tenacity, left a rare score of rapid defeat in the legendary battle.
Two men and two men advance to the final four, and the semi-finals are played against each other according to gender. On February 24, the sole former titler, Kobayashi Kyaw, was defeated by Yuichi Yuan. Kobayashi Kyaw is currently the chairman of the Japan Chess Academy, and Kikuyo Aoki on the other side of the semifinals is the executive director of the Japan Chess Academy, and Kobayashi Jue's early exit has made the Scene of "Chess Leaders Fighting for the Championship" in the Japanese chess industry after forty years has not been repeated.
In 1982, Eio Sakata and Masao Sugineu, who were then the heads and vice presidents of the Japan Chess Academy, met in the final of the 29th NHK Cup, and the leaders of the chess world were also the kings on the chessboard, which was an extremely rare moment.
Kikuyo Aoki and Tomoko Kato competed for the championship in the 1st Women's Legend Battle at the end of 2021, and Aoki topped the list, and then met in the semi-finals of the Legend Battle two months later. However, on the same day that the match was scheduled for February 24, Aoki Kikuyo was diagnosed with new crown and had to postpone it to March 9, and Aoki narrowly won by 1.50. This is the second time that Aoki Kikuyo has reached the final of the unisex competition after 25 years since 1997, but the last time was the Rookie Tournament and this time it was the Seniors Tournament.
The scene of the final between Yuan Tian and Aoki. Although it is a chair match in the studio, Yuan Tian sits on the board and Aoki kneels, which still shows the play habits of the older generation of chess players.
The final is the complete victory of Yuichi Yuantian's strength type, although female chess players like to fight well known, but the fierce battles of this game are basically provoked by the 70-year-old Yuan Tian, and then completely overwhelmed. The TEIKEI Cup Legend battle takes 1 and a half hours per side, retains five 1-minute second readings, and the championship prize is 5 million yen (about 270,000 yuan).
The result of the final was Yuichi Yuantian's 198-hand victory.
Yuichi Yuan tian is a famous player in the Kansai Chess Academy, who was famous for his explicit appearance and tactics, and in the 1980s, he played in the Sino-Japanese confrontation and the Sino-Japanese ring competition many times, and repeatedly fought against Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun. He challenged Tianyuan and Qisheng four times in 1977, 1986, 1988 and 1998, all three of which were won in the first decision battle of the Kansai Chess Academy, and the last time was in the distant 1995. Twenty-seven years later, Yuichi Yuantian, who has entered the ancient rarity, won the Gold Cup by defeating Zhao Zhixun and other xiongguans that were once difficult to cross, which is undoubtedly the best reward for his decades of hard work in the path of chess, and people have not given up in their high years.
Post-match replay. The photo was taken by the bureau's commentator Wan Bo Kanai.