Among the little tiger chess players, in terms of achievements, only Kong Jie can compete with Gu Li. The two were expected to be expected together very early, and kong jie was even earlier in terms of the results of the competition.
Kong Jie is a native of Beijing, born on November 25, 1982, learned chess at the age of 6, became a professional chess player in 1994, and entered the national junior training team, under the tutelage of Liu Xiaoguang Jiudan, which is highly anticipated.
In 1999, the 17-year-old Kong Jie was given the opportunity to represent China in the second Chunlan Cup, originally thinking that he was just to experience the taste of the World Series, but unexpectedly set off a wild surge, defeating Zhao Shanjin, Choi Myung-hoon, Cao Xuanxuan three strong tycoons, reaching the final four, shocking the world. Although he lost to Wang Licheng, who won the championship in the semifinals, Kong Jie defeated Noriki Ida in the third place battle, and was generally the third in the world
The reputation of "Chunlan Boy" has not gone away, and Kong Jiedun has become the most popular new sharp edge of Chinese Go. At the end of 2000, the third Chunlan Cup, Kong Jie eliminated Lee Chang-ho!
However, since then, Kong Jie's record has not met people's expectations, although he has won the championship in many domestic competitions, and has also entered the quarterfinals and the top four in the world series many times, but as Gu Li won the world championship, Kong Jie was still pulled away.
In 2008, Kong Jie finally broke out at the 13th Three Star Cup, winning consecutive victories over Park Yongxun, Takao Seiji and Yamashita Keigo to reach the final four, and in the semifinals 2-0, he defeated Zhou Ruiyang and reached the final of the World Series for the first time. However, in the final in January of the following year, Kong Jie lost to "bitter hand" Lee Sedol and returned with regrets.
But at that time, Kong Jie was already on the verge of erupting, and no one could suppress the volcano. In 2009, the 21st Asian Cup Quick Chess Tournament, Kong Jielenk Kang Dong-yun, Lee Chang-ho, Lee Sedol three Major Korean masters, won the championship. This is just the beginning, the 14th Samsung Cup, kong Jie although lost to Lee Chang-ho in the group stage of the round of 32, but won two wins against Lee Won-pi and advanced to the round of sixteen. He then burned Yamashita Kyunggo and Park Yongxun again and reached the final four. In the semi-finals, he won the co-titled Gu Li with himself 2-0, and Qiu Jun, who defeated and eliminated Lee Chang-ho in the final 2-0, and ascended the throne strongly!
After winning the first world championship, Kong Jie completely broke through the shackles, the 14th LG Cup in the same year, he eliminated Lee Sedol in the first round, and then won consecutive victories over Kang Ru-taek, Choi Chul-han, Park Yong-hoon, and in the final 2-0, lee chang-ho was captured, and the second world champion arrived! From the Samsung Cup to the LG Cup, Kong Jie only took two months and ten days.
In 2010, Kong Jie won consecutive victories over Lee Chang-ho and Satoshi Yuki in the Asian Cup Quick Chess Tournament, and then won the 23rd Fujitsu Cup, winning consecutive victories over Yoyoshi Ishida, Kim Ji-seok and Qiu Jun, and then fighting Lee Sedol in the final!
That year, Lee Sedol had just experienced a six-month "suspension" comeback, and he was also indispensable. In the second BC Card Cup final, he won the championship with a 3-0 victory over Chang Hao, and Kong Jie was the two heroes of the world at that time. Whoever wins the Fujitsu Cup is the deserved number one in the world!
On July 5, 2010, the duel was played at the Japan Chess Academy in Tokyo, a true pinnacle duel.
23rd Fujitsu Cup Final
Kong Jie was 12-and-a-half-eyes better than Lee Sedol
Date of match: 5 July 2010
Matching location: Japan Chess Academy, Tokyo, Japan
Kong Jie and Lee Sedol have a lot of historical confrontations, the first encounter in the 2003 Samsung Cup, Li Sedol won, and in 2004 Kong Jie eliminated Xiao Li in the first round of the Fifth Ying Cup. Ben was expected to be a rival, but since Lee Sedol won the 2nd Toyota Cup semi-final in 2004, the two were completely one-sided, and Kong Jie suffered nine consecutive defeats!
Until the first round of the 14th LG Cup in 2009, Kong Jiefang stopped the decline, counterattacked Lee Sedol and finally won the championship. That game of chess also made Xiao Li firm in the heart of "suspension", with the loss to Chang Hao in the Fujitsu Cup quarterfinals, the Asian Cup final and then losing to Kong Jie, Lee Sedol withdrew from the World Series and South Korea's domestic competitions, only to play the Chinese League, and only reappeared in the second BC Card Cup half a year later. IN THE BC CARD CUP SIXTEEN ROUNDS, LEE SEDOL ELIMINATED KONG JIE, THE TWO MALES IN THE TWO YEARS IN THE COMPETITION REPEATEDLY COLLIDED, THE VICTORY AND LOSS WAS EQUAL, FUJITSU CUP FINALLY USHERED IN THE "CHESS OPPONENT" DECISIVE BATTLE THAT WAS LATE FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
First spectrum 1-50
In the final, Lee Sedol took the lead in black.
Black 7 is spread above the deformed Chinese stream, and Xiao Li intends to stick to the upper right space.
White 8 pinch, black 9 counter clip.
White 10 solid, does not give the black chess pieces room to turn around.
Black 11 chooses to expand, and white 12 is very comfortable.
The upper left is a normal response, and the white 18 demolition three obviously has a break in, but it is not dismantled here and the strength is insufficient.
Black 19 was immediately punched in.
White 24 Town is reasonably measured.
Black 25, Lee Sedol's tough hand! I want to force the white chess elephant eye to contact.
White 26 touched the horn, Kong Jie did not show weakness!
The battle began.
White 30 long and powerful.
Black 31 only had to pull, white 32 crossed, Kong Jie faced a strong opponent, full of confidence.
Both sides are tightening their strings here, and one wrong step can lead to a full loss.
Black 41 to 45 step by step, white 46 pressure inevitable.
White 48 long, black 49 also long.
White 50 makes up for the chess piece, and both sides have great instability.
Second spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 51-100)
Black 1 to make up the shape.
White 2 thick.
Black 3 escaped, and White 4 held on tightly, and at that time, Kong Jie's combat effectiveness was not inferior to Xiao Li's.
Black 5 and 7 stubbornly fled, and Lee Sedol refused to abandon his son.
Bai Qi chased all the way and walked on the yang side, and from the perspective of the process, it was a situation that Kong Jie could easily grasp.
The main point of the white 16 shape.
Killing each other seems inevitable.
Black 19 or less does not allow white chess to be alive.
After the white 30, if the black chess is forcibly killed, the white chess dragon qi is too long, and the black chess cannot be done.
Black 31 span, Lee Sedol had to try to live himself first.
By Black 43, Xiao Li created a robbery below.
White 48 looking for robbery, black 49 to eliminate the robbery, Li Shishi finally made the big dragon alive first.
White 50 eats a son, the battle line is elongated, but the overall situation, white chess is obviously good.
Third Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 101-150)
Black 1 and 3 continue to investigate the taste of the white chess dragon.
Bai 4 took off the big chess piece on the side first, and Kong Jie did not compromise at all!
White 6 big field, now fight the ground black chess is obviously insufficient.
Black 9 broke in, and Lee Sedol tried his best to disrupt the situation.
Kong Jie took the ground steadily in the lower left.
Black 19 sticky, peeping white chess dragon.
White 20 supplement, Kong Jie first dealt with the center, waiting for the black chess move.
Bai 24 continued to fight, and Lee Sedol was forced to go up a road on Mount Hua.
Black 25 or less finally started, the white chess piece was divided into two pieces, can Kong Jie hold it?
White 34 picked up, the big dragon to ensure a glance.
Black 35 can only tiger, white 36 live to the horn, black chess is no longer possible than the field.
Black 37 sticky, Lee Sedol can only hope to slay the dragon.
White 38 or below clearly do the eyes.
White 50 tigers, black chess to kill chess is an impossible task.
Fourth Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 151-200)
White 2 wrench is a good order.
White 10 stands, black chess top left reverse into the defendant.
Black 11 needs to make up a hand.
White 16 skips the contact, the big dragon is worry-free, and it can be said that the overall situation has been decided.
Li Shishi refused to give up, stubbornly ended, Kong Jie was the most stable to deal with.
After the white 50, the black chess on the plate is much worse.
Fifth Spectrum 1-70 (i.e. 201-270)
Lee Sedol calmly finished the official, and finally won 12 and a half eyes in white chess, which was a rare fiasco in the history of Xiao Li's game.
Kong Jie defeated Lee Sedol and won the Fujitsu Cup! Won the triple crown of the World Series in seven months, and defeated the strongest chess players in the world chess world at that time along the way, full of gold! The Korean media, which has always been proud, also had to admit that Kong Jie at that time was "the first person in the world"!
With Kong Jie's age at the time and his prestige at the time, Chinese chess fans believed that he would definitely be able to dominate for several years, at least on a par with Gu Li and Li Shishi. However, since winning the Fujitsu Cup, Kong Jie suddenly declined, and in 2010, he lost to Lee Sedol in the group stage of the 15th Samsung Cup, and although he barely qualified, he was eliminated by Kim Ji-seok in the quarterfinals. The 15th LG Cup Kong Jie continued to be strong and re-entered the final, but lost 0-2 to Park Wenyao in the final of the following year, contributing to the first world championship of China's "Little Leopard Generation". His highlight was the two victories over Li Sedol in the Go men's team competition at the 2010 Asian Games, but unfortunately the Chinese team still did not have the championship.
In 2011, Kong Jie began to go all the way down in the World Series, the 3rd BC Card Cup Round of 64 was eliminated by Tan Xiao, the 23rd Asian Cup final defeated Bai Honghuai, reaching a three-consecutive championship, but then the first round of the 16th LG Cup lost to Park Zhengxiang, the 24th Fujitsu Cup Round of 16 lost to Sheikh, the 16th Samsung Cup Round of 16 defeated Lee Sedol again, the quarterfinals lost in front of south Korea's new Ro Hyun-jin.
In 2012, Kong Jie was revenged by Bai Hongwei in the final of the 24th Asian Cup, missed four consecutive championships, the last city fell, and at the end of the year, the ninth Chunlan Cup semi-final lost to Lee Sedol, and has never had a good result in the world championship since then.
After 2013, Kong Jie rarely appeared on the world series stage, and at the end of 2013, he lost to Lee Chang-ho, Park Ting-hwan, Mizogami Zhiqin, and Chen Yaoye in the World Team Competition at the end of 2013, all without the style of the "Triple Crown" period.
Since 2015, Kong Jie has rarely even played in the Weijia League, only playing one game of fast chess in 2015, losing to Fan Tingyu, and in 2016, he was completely eliminated, and other competitions are rare in his presence. Even if it is not in good shape, it will not fall to the point of not participating in the game, and Kong Jie's "disappearance" has become a mystery in the hearts of chess fans.
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With Kong Jie's age and strength, as well as his journey of struggle since childhood, it should never become a legend. Maybe he has a new purpose in life and no longer has Go as the center of gravity of his life?
Respect every choice of Kong Jie, believe that his life will be more exciting, believe that he is the winner of life, but as a chess fan, you will still feel deep regrets, or look forward to his return, continue to be the king of chess.
We will not forget the excitement brought to us by Kong Jie, and there are his shining footprints in the annals of Go history.
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