Born in 1984, The professional chess player Murakami Jingying announced his retirement on February 25, and he is not yet thirty-eight years old, and he is an outlier in the Japanese chess world with a generally long competitive lifespan, whether it is the game habits, the final result or the retirement age, it is unique.
The picture shows Murakami Jingying guiding enthusiasts.
Born in 1984 in Osaka, Japan, Murakami entered the dan in 2004 at the age of twenty, rose to the second dan in 2007, and rose to the third dan in 2014. From April 2019, he applied for a "break" and stopped playing professionally until february 2022, when he gave up his professional status.
Murakami played in professional Go for fifteen years, with a total of 87 wins and 147 losses.
What made Murakami known for it happened to be a month before he left the arena. On March 7, 2019, his 45th Celebrity Battle Qualifier with Yanagi Shifuku was broadcast live because Yanagi shifu had won the title, and people watching the chess game were surprised to find that after the black Yanagi Shifu's first hand fell on the chessboard, time seemed to freeze, and the chess board was empty for more than three hours, until Murakami Jingying ran out of time to enter the second reading, and the chess game was carried out hand by hand.
And this is not the first time murakami Jingying has been so unexpected, he has maintained such a habit for a long time, no matter whether he is black or white, he will use up all his retention time firsthand. I don't know if it is to temper the second reading kung fu, or to have a unique concept of the time system? In any case, taking the precious opportunity to play to practice your own unique ideas, a chess player like Murakami Jingying is unique in the professional chess world.
This game of chess is still behind, due to the premature entry into the second reading, Murakami Jingying will inevitably fall into a bitter battle, but his white 28 touch and then white 30 blocking the idea is still quite amazing, the beginning was broken. Since then, the white 80, 82 and 84 in the upper right corner and the black 81, 83 and 85 have been pointed at each other side by side, which also makes the spectators wonder. In the lower left corner, Bai 118 and 120 moved first but all died, which made Murakami's mentality collapse, and then he walked the middle piece to death, but he still refused to admit defeat, and the black chessboard of the complete official was 65 eyes ahead, and Yanagi Shifu won with 58 eyes and a half.
A month later, on April 4, Murakami played against Japan's 68th Battle of throne qualifiers against junzo Mitsunaga, who was ten years older and equally unknown. There was no qualification for live chess in this game, only the results were circulated, and shocking numbers appeared: Hikari Junzo held 95 eyes and a half wins. This is probably the largest gap in the number of professional game finals ever. Referring to the content of murakami's chess game that lost to Yanagi Shifu, it is likely that he also read the second early and had no time to calculate carefully, miscalculated and broke the defense inside, unwilling to accept the reality that the more he died, until the big defeat ended.
Losing two sets in such a tragic way may have been the trigger for Murakami to quit her career. At the end of the month when the 95-year-and-a-half-eyes were lost, Murakami did not return to the professional chessboard after losing to female chess player Kaneko Masaki in the middle game of the 46th Tengen Battle Qualifier in Japan on April 25, 2019.
Flipping through Murakami's previous chess scores, he also made a strange layout under the first hand when he was facing the senior Kudo Norio Kudo in the 43rd Chess Jihadate Qualifier in Japan on November 2, 2017. However, Dou Force Murakami is not the opponent of the veteran at all, and he lost miserably in the middle of the game.
Because of his poor results, Murakami left a very small number of chess scores, and it is difficult to understand the whole picture of his Go ideas. During the period when he was active as a professional chess player, Murakami often created dead and alive questions to share on the Internet, and no one cared as he faded out of the chess world. Since ancient times, the Go world has been the place where strange people and strange masters are accommodated, but with the deepening of modernization, the competitive color closely related to livelihood has become increasingly strong, and the space left for these "strange things" has become more and more cramped.