Japan's 77th Honinfang Battle was decided on April 4 at the Japan Chess Academy in Tokyo, and in the two-person overtime match with 6 wins and 1 loss in the round-robin circle, Yili Liao won the white mid-game victory over Yu Zhengqi and won the challenge right of the Beninfang Battle for the first time. This is the third consecutive time that LiLiao challenged Yuta Iyama in a two-day system of seven wins and losses after the 2021 Celebrity War and the 2022 Chess Holy War, and it is also the peak duel of the long-lost Japanese Go "Chess Saint vs Ben in Fang".
Holding the chess saint in his hand and forcing Miyamoto Infang's strength to be full of energy.
In 1951, Hashimoto Utaro's "Great Reversal of Shengsen Gorge" repelled Eio Sakata's defending title of Honinfang, making it difficult for the Japanese chess academy to stifle the newborn Kansai Chess Academy, leaving behind a good story of the history of chess of The Hundred Generations. But since then, the Kansai Chess Academy and the Honinbo War seem to have come to an end, and the last time someone stepped on the challenge stage was back to 1962's Handa Michigen. A whole year has passed, and as Yu Zhengqi stepped on the door, the waiting of the Kansai Chess Academy continued fruitlessly.
This year's Tournament begins with qualifiers on October 8, 2020, and the schedule spans two years. The round-robins of C, B, A and final four levels continued until September 9, 2021, when Junshi Tsuruyama, Katsumi Motoki, Masaki Yu and Tsuruta Toshishi Sada entered the round robin and formed an eight-player squad with the previous year's shimono Toramaru, Xu Jiayuan, Ichiri Ryo and Naoki Hagen. In the "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings" who ruled the Japanese chess world for ten years, only the oldest Feather is still struggling in the circle of circulation.
In the final round of the circle, the four players bow relative to each other at the beginning of the two sets of matches involving the challenger.
From October 2021 to April 2022 (the actual final round was held on March 31), the kansai chess academy's first brother Yu Zhengqi led the whole field in six consecutive wins, but the last round was attacked by Shibano Tiger Maru Hanmu. The new chess saint Liao worked hard and defeated all opponents except Yu Zhengqi, dragging the suspense into the extra round. Heo Ka-won, who lost 5-2, Shibano Tiger Maru, who lost 4-3, Naoki Hane, Junshi Tsuruyama, Tsuruyama, Tsuda Tsuneshi, and Katsuya Motoki, who lost 1-6, were relegated.
At 8:52 p.m. local time on March 31, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred in Chiba, Japan, and the earthquake in Tokyo was strongly felt. At that time, Yu Zhengqi and Shibano Tiger Maru's key battle fell to the 236th hand, and the heavy chess pier was obviously shaken, but the two players and the referee did not say a word, and the game proceeded normally.
Also from the Kansai Chess Academy, Sada Takshi's task in the final round was to do a good job as Yu Zhengqi's "auxiliary army" and fully resist Yili Liao. If he can win, regardless of the outcome of Yu Zhengqi and Shibano Tiger Maru, Yu will directly get the right to challenge. In terms of achievements and fame, Sada could not be compared with a force, but he shocked the chess world at the Chunlan Cup World Professional Championships on March 22, making this possibility inevitable that it would not happen. In the game, the white Sada Takashi made a strong killer of the white 66 foolish triangle, which was very visually impactful, and the "aesthetic chess player" Otake hero did not know what to think when he saw it. In this round, Sada still took the initiative in the first half of the set, but the big pair of kills took a wrong step and collapsed instantly.
On April 4, the challengers decided to play in the highest standard "Youxuan" match room of the Japanese Chess Academy, and Guess First Bai Yili Liao won a complete victory. In the battle below the opening, a good hand of the white 50 diggers, eat and live the black backgammon tendon, and stand in an invincible position early. After that, Yili Liao worked in the black air piece after piece, and Yu Zhengqi, who was helpless to attack, insisted on conceding defeat until nearly 9 o'clock in the local time.
Yu Zhengqi, who fell behind the first son, failed to laugh to the end.
In the final of the seven-game final between Yuta Iyama, who challenged Yuta Izuyama, who was a ten-year-old champion of Honinbo, the first game will be lit on May 10 and 11 at the "Kinkei Pavilion" in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is worth mentioning that the second game on May 24 and 25 is scheduled to start at the Kumagaya Football Stadium in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, and the entry of Go into the stadium has long been the norm in the Chinese and Korean chess circles, but it is still a fairly rare scene in Japan.