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Hara: Nakamura Sumire 2nd Dan Launched at the top of the league In front of the youngest challenger in history
Excerpt from: Asahi Shimbun
Photo: Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun
Author: Daisuke Koji
Translation and finishing: Make excuses to be quiet too strong
Zhongyi, who is currently in the first grade of junior high school, occupied the top spot with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss after the 33rd stage of the celebrity battle cycle on March 24. Xie Yimin, who is currently one win away from Zhongyi, is second with 4 wins and 1 loss, and in the final round of the round of the circle on March 31, if Xie Yimin loses, Zhongyimin will become the youngest chess challenger in history and will challenge Fujisawa's female celebrities. If Xie Yimin wins, he will play a plus match with Zhongyi.
This year, Zhongyi entered the round robin circle with 5 consecutive wins in the women's celebrity battle preliminaries, and in the single round of the 7-a-side system, he defeated Xie Yimin, who had won five crowns of the women's stream, and the current title holder Ueno Aimi Beauty Liuqi sheng and other strong tycoons, and finally finished the first place. Zhongyi said: "I was looking forward to playing against the top chess players, and I didn't expect to win 5 games of chess, to be honest, I was shocked but I was very happy to have such a result."
In the Japanese title battle, the youngest challenge record currently held in the men's and women's competitions is the record set by Riki Fujisawa in 2014 when she played goban chess in the female stream Honinbo. If Zhongyi can appear in the female celebrity battle sanbanqi that began in April, he will challenge the title for the first time at the age of 13. The record held by Fujisawa Rishi has been greatly updated.
In April 2019, when he was in the 5th grade of elementary school, Zhongyi became a professional chess player at the youngest age in history at the age of 10. Last year' career year broke out, with a record of 43 wins and 18 losses, ranking third among all Japanese players.
In the female celebrity battle round robin circle, Zhongyi, who ended all the matches with 5 wins and 1 loss, was interviewed after the end of the game on March 24. Here's what the Q&A content is.
- Please review today's game of chess.
Zhongyi: This game has always been a good game of winning and losing, and at one point I felt that I had a big advantage in the middle stage, but there was a huge mistake in the back, and I once felt that this chess game was going to be lost.
—— This is the first time you have entered the circle of celebrity battles in the female stream, and you have played a total of 6 games of chess. In the end, 5 wins and 1 loss ended the entire series. Look back at how this cycle felt.
Zhongyi: I didn't expect to be able to win so many games, I think this is the result of exceeding the strength I should have.
—— The result of the last round of Xie Yimin will determine whether you directly become a challenger, at this stage you at least guarantee the challenger's decision to fight the overtime qualification, can you tell me how you feel now?
Zhongyi: At least I can play a game of chess, so I am still very happy.
—— Among these 6 games, the game that impresses you the most is which game.
Nakai: Winning the game of chess by Ueno Ai-sami is the most impressive game.
——Last year, your number of wins ranked third in the Japanese chess academy, and this year your record is also 12 wins, and then won Ueno Aisami and Xie Yimin, and the male chess players also won a lot of stronger players. Do you feel like you're going up?
Zhongyiyi: Facing these very strong teachers who can also win chess, I feel that my strength is indeed stronger.
Before this round of loops, we also mentioned that you said that you wanted to get the title at the junior high school stage. In this cycle, is there any chess with such a goal?
Zhongyi: I didn't think about it (laughs). However, being able to play 6 sets in the loop, the opponents are very strong, and I am looking forward to it and then it is a good learning opportunity.
——After 6 games of chess, you ended the loop with the first place, and after getting this result, did you feel that you had embarked on the road of taking the title in junior high school?
Zhongyi: Not really (laughs). To be honest, I didn't think I could win 5 games this time, which was really shocking, but I was also very happy to have such a result.
—— You just said that you didn't expect to win 5 games of chess, this time the female celebrity battle round robin, although there may be extra matches, if you score yourself, how many points do you want to score?
Zhongyi: 80 points.
- The 20 points deducted were not due to losing a set.
Zhongyi: (Laughs) Yes.
- During the round robin, you participated in international competitions and then won Zhou Hongyu, how does that game feel to you.
Zhongyi: That game of chess means a lot to me, and it is precisely because of winning this game that I have more confidence in playing female celebrity battles.
It's been 2 years since you moved to Tokyo, and in those two years you feel like you've grown.
Zhongyiyi: In terms of the ability to tighten the second half of the game, I think there is still a bit of progress in this regard, but today's game of chess did not play well in the second half of the game (laughs).
Is this your future project?
Zhongyi: In fact, I have found a lot of problems now, the layout stage of the next method, the mid-game combat I still want to improve my strength.
- Today's game of chess finally won half an eye, how did you face this game when you played.
Zhongyi: There was a mistake in the second half of the game, and at one point I thought that this game might be lost. But then I realized that I had won.
——Did you find that you won when you clicked?
Zhongyi: In the end, when the little official robbed, he thought that this chess game was going to win half an eye, but before that, he really didn't think he could win.