Japan's 33rd Hakata Kabuki Cup Women's Celebrity Tournament was held on March 31 at the Japan Chess Academy in Tokyo after six rounds of qualifiers and seven rounds of round robin. After winning five consecutive games in the qualifiers, the 13-year-old Nakagawa won five consecutive games and lost 5 wins and 1 loss in the round robin circle, qualifying for the challenge of Fujisawa Rishi, who has dominated the female celebrity for four consecutive times. This was the first time that Zhongyiyi, who had just been in the fourth year of Dingduan, had stepped onto the highest stage, setting a record for the youngest challenger in the history of Go.
From October 2021 to January 2022, Nakagawa won consecutively in the 33rd Women's Celebrity Tournament Qualifiers against senior Chitoshi Kobayashi, beautiful wife Miori Shimonaka, popular anchor Hosei Shinobi, big sister Shigeru Yuki, wheelchair player Chika, and entered the loop for the first time. The round robin circle is composed of seven people, four people directly selected by the results of the previous year, three people are selected by the preliminary selection, and the expectations of the chess community at the beginning of the tournament are limited to whether they can overpower the Japanese women's first-line chess players Xiang Qianying and Niu Eiko to achieve the "small goal" of the relegation of the circular circle.
However, Zhongyi shattered the glasses of the chess industry with her rapidly improving performance, and on February 10, she defeated Omoriland in the first round of the round-robin round, and yixue fixed the first game of the humiliation. On February 17, he was unable to defeat Suzuki at 4 and a half eyes, giving people the feeling of "still fledgling". From the third round onwards, Zhongyi won consecutive victories over Xie Yimin, Ueno Aisami, Niu Eiko, and Chiei Xiangjing, and this four-game winning streak fully proved her existing strength.
On February 24, Zhongyi won the battle with a beautiful attack, and defeated the former Japanese women's first and full champion Xie Yimin in a black 2.5 eyes, after which she reversed the women's world champion Zhou Hongyu in the international emerging team competition hosted by South Korea. On March 10, the momentum of Nakai Tsuneyoshi erupted in the unfavorable situation of the first half of the game, and the big switch was a big victory over the current Japanese woman's second person, Ueno Aisami. The wonderful victories of these two sets of "Xia Ke Shang" completely reversed the outside world's impression of Zhongyi's "child star" and officially became a member of Japan's top women's chess players.
Zhongyi then beat Niu Eiko in the middle of the game on March 17, and narrowly defeated Xiangjing Chiei on March 24. Although XiangJing, who was once also a prominent player in the Japanese women's chess world, only won half a eye, the AI winning rate has never been less than 50%, which shows the strength. After six rounds of the round- and round-robin, Zhongyi won 5 and lost 1, and the only person who could pose a threat to her as a challenger was Xie Yimin, who won 4 wins and 1 loss and only lost in the hedge. On March 31, Xie Yimin was crushed in a battle with Ueno Ai-Mi, and the dragon of more than fifty sons died in anger, so Zhongyi Didi did not have to play overtime and directly won the right to challenge.
In the history of world Go, the holder of the record for the youngest challenger in the Chinese title battle is Zhou Ruiyang, who challenged Guli Tianyuan (1-2 defeat) in 2006 at the age of 14 years and 11 months; South Korea's Ishn Chang-ho, who challenged Cao Xuan-hyun to the top position (1-3 defeat) at the age of 13 years and 4 months in 1988, and now Zhongyi has advanced this age to 13 years and 0 months.
In the list of youngest champions, Lee Chang-ho was 14 years old and 0 months old when he won his first championship in 1989, and Yang Dingxin was 13 years and 5 months old when he won the China Ricoh Cup in 2012. If Nakaihiro can cross the mountain of Japanese women's first person Fujisawa Rishi in April, he will set a new young age record.
Naka's three-match challenge to Fujisawa's female celebrity tournament will begin on April 14 at the Japan Chess Academy, with a prize money of 7 million yen (about 365,000 yuan). The once twilight Japanese Go world has increased the vigor and vitality of teenagers because of the emergence of Zhongyi.