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Hara: 13-year-old Violet Nakamura challenges the woman's strongest Rina Fujisawa Past playing in the stomach
Excerpt from: Asahi Shimbun
Author: Daisuke Koji
Translation and Collation: Find an Excuse to Be Quiet Zhongyi has a record of the game before he was born
At 10:00 a.m. on April 16, Nakai Eiji, a second-year junior high school student, faced Fujisawa's four crowns in the second round of the 33rd Female Celebrity Battle Sanban. Zhongyi, who lost the first set, needed to fight for an equalizer in this game. Her opponent is the most revered chess player when she was a child, and the strongest female player of Japanese Go who has many records of playing chess in practice chess.
From the naïve girl to the winner, as long as he faces the chessboard Zhongyi's expression, it is suddenly different. Sometimes looking down at the chessboard, sometimes looking up at the opponent with sharp eyes.
The opponent's Fujisawa Rishi has been focusing on the chessboard and has not looked at the opponent's expression all the time. After the game began, all the media shooting ended, and after the end of the game, only the sound of the falling in the game room remained.
On March 31, Nakagami, who won the female celebrity battle circle, decided to become a challenger, and Fujisawa said: "It feels incredible, and it has not eased up."
The friendship between the two sides can be traced back to the time when Nakai was not yet born, and in 2009, when he was 10 years old, Fujisawa Risai faced Nakaiyuki, a Go instructor with a big belly, in an amateur competition. It didn't take long for Zhongyi to give birth to Zhongyi.
In 2010, when Nakagawa was 1 year old, Fujisawa became a professional chess player at the youngest of 11 years and 6 months. In 2015, 6-year-old Nakai won the championship in a Go competition for preschoolers, and in 2014, Rishi Fujisawa, who won the title at the age of 15 and 9 months, was invited to the event as a guest.
Zhongyi took a group photo with his idol.
Since then, Fujisawa has won consecutive title battles and become the strongest chess player in Japan. Nakai also followed in the footsteps of Fujisawa Risai, and in 2019, with a record of 10 years and 0 months, he broke the record of the youngest fixed section and became a professional chess player.
Last year, Nakai came to Tokyo from Osaka and also transferred to the Tokyo Main Academy of The Japanese Chess Academy. Since then, the relationship between the two has been as close as sisters.
Yili Liao opened a small number of elite Go research associations "Yi Yan", and invited Fujisawa Rishi and Nakai Tsutomu. The purpose is to cultivate Zhongyi. Once a month, we will practice chess with each other to hone their chess skills. Naka said that she and Fujisawa had nearly 20 matches and won 2 sets. But as long as the game is over, it is a good partner who can keep talking hand in hand. The topic revolves around detective Conan, and after Risai Fujisawa recommended "Detective Conan" to Nakai, she liked this manga work.
This time, Nakai became a challenger and challenged Fujisawa Satoshi. "Zhongyi is like my own sister to me, but she is really a terrible presence in Go. Fujisawa said: "Although younger than me, it deserves my respect. Gave me a lot of motivation. I hope I can grow in this title battle."
Nakagawa said, "Mr. Fujisawa has always been kind to me and has always been very kind to me. Chess is also very strong, and his character is also very worthy of my respect, and he is a teacher I admire."
Of course, after obtaining the right to challenge, it is no longer a simple mutual respect, and both sides also realize that the other is their own good opponent.
On April 8, in the first round of the international event "SENKO CUP" before the Women's Celebrity Battle, Nakai and Fujisawa Risai played the first official match.
Although Zhongyi was inferior to his opponents, AI once showed that Zhongyi's winning rate exceeded 90%. After the game, Zhongyi said: "Unexpectedly, I felt that the gap was not big. I feel that I can still find some feel." Although the first game of the women's celebrity battle on April 14 also lost, it began to attack in the case of a significantly backward layout, which once caught Fujisawa Satoshi off guard.
After the game ended, in front of 80 reporters from 25 media, ZhongYiyi recalled the atmosphere of reporting when the segment was just fixed three years ago.
"I'm used to it, I'm not nervous about it anymore." He was forced into a desperate situation early in the three-game game, but Zhongyi said, "I am not a person who lost when I lost, and I hope to play my full strength in the face of the second game, regardless of the result." When the paragraph was just fixed, Zhongyi's eyes would turn red as long as she lost the chess, and even the girl who could not accept the interview had changed.
The stronger the strength of Zhongyi, the higher the probability of encountering a master. The second inning of the Women's Celebrity Battle on April 16 will be the third meeting between the two sides. I believe that such a record of hand-to-hand combat is only the beginning of this title battle.