On October 24th and 25th, the 6th game of the final of the 47th Masters Tournament in Japan was held at the Ishitei Hotel in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Yuta Iyama, who won one game and then lost three points in a row, chased in five or six sets to tie the overall score 3-3 with two mid-set victories, and did not give up after falling behind 1-3 for the third time after the 2021 Honinbo battle and the 2022 chess holy battle, and finally caught up with the seventh game of a tiebreaker.
Before the game, the two players took a group photo with the game room and the hotel courtyard as the background, and the suit geta was quite Japanese.
The scroll behind the winning Yuta Iyama reads "Pine Tree Millennium Emerald", which means not to pursue a temporary red and willow green, but to hold on to eternal evergreen. Readers who have an impression of the Japanese Go final may remember that this five-character Zen calligraphy also appeared at the Hanatsuen-en Ryokan in Hakone-cho, Kanagawa Prefecture, where chess holy battles have been held many times.
The Ishitei Ryokan in Atami City is a place where Yuta Iyama and Toramaru Shibano leave precious memories and are both related to celebrity battles. On October 15, 2009, the 20-year-old Yuta Iyama challenged Zhang Xu in the fifth game of the 34th Masters Tournament Final, breaking Lin Haifeng's record for the youngest celebrity held for 44 years. Ten years later, on October 8, 2019, Toramaru Shibano, also 20 years old, rewrote Iyama's record as the youngest celebrity in the fifth game of the 44th Masters Match, challenging Zhang Xu and competing in Ishitei.
Onsen cuisine on the eve of the competition.
A view of the Stone Pavilion Hotel.
On the day of the race, it was raining lightly, and Yuta Iyama walked to the arena with an umbrella.
Shibano Toramaru is helped by staff to open umbrellas.
On October 24, the sixth game began, Shibano who was holding the white did not take the unusual path, the upper side scored and walked two hands and then took off first to the right to retreat, when the Iyama black 31-pound large cover, the white 32 side touched, the white 34 went to the rear to be cheaper, and after a few hands exchanged, the white 44 took off and took off to defend the lower left corner first. The provoked Iyama first made a robbery in the lower left, seizing the opportunity to cut off a piece above the white at black 49 and 51, and the victory rate was superior.
Day 1 Jingshan lunch: duck soba noodles.
Day 1 Shibano lunch: tempura donburi.
Iyama chose a fruit platter for both days of refreshments, and Shibano did the same the next day.
Shibano first day refreshment: cream cake with cantaloupe.
Yililiao, who rushed to the scene to serve as a commentator, tasted the same food of the opponent in the live video broadcast, and when asked if he was in the mood to enjoy refreshments during the game, he cleverly replied: "I don't neglect food because I think, I sometimes just care about eating and forget to think." ”
In Japanese and Korean Go live broadcasts, it is a routine operation to play a game health bar on the screen. The organizer "Asahi Shimbun" took a unique approach and handcrafted a diagram of the change in win rate that the commentators could dial, which surprised the audience.
One force chess saint posed to promote this new idea.
The first day of the tournament ended with Shibano Toramaru 60 seals, the two players returned home, and Koichi Kobayashi signed the sealed documents in the referee's bench.
On October 25, the battle resumed, Shibano Toramaru generously gave up the aftertaste of the upper right, and used the power of thick momentum to surround the air on the left five-way, and the white 70 rushed to the lower five-way shoulder, and the white force in the middle belly was monstrous for a while. After the long exam, Yuta Iyama resolutely stepped into the white formation and began a long journey to live. In the process of curing orphans, Iyama Kuro93 also fished out a vote in the lower left corner, forcing Shibano not to slay the dragon without contending for victory. This big heart necessary for the competitive world worked again, Bai 116 and 120 did not dare to fight to the death, and after being easily lived by Hei, the situation was clear, and the "Battle of Blessed Land" Jingshan won.
Trial Kobayashi Koichi Mukaiyama Yuta Exhibition Shibano Toramaru Seal.
Day 2 Inoyama lunch: seafood rice bowl.
Day 2 Shibano lunch: tempura (shrimp, shiitake mushrooms, eggplant, enoki mushrooms, asparagus) soba noodles.
Staff lunch on day 2: pork chop donburi.
The black chess in the second part of the game eats the white tendons in the middle abdomen, and the white side penetrates into the upper left black space to form a transformation, but it has nothing to do with victory or defeat. By 215 hands Shibano Toramaru in the middle of the set, the tiebreaker will be played on November 2 and 3 at the familiar Tokiwa Hotel in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture.
On the afternoon of the second day of the game, Kobayashi Jue, chairman of the Japan Chess Academy, rushed to the scene, and the scene of the "two Xiaolin" playing against the chess board was nostalgic for the peak of the Japanese Go game in the last century.
Koichi Kobayashi, who set the chess saint Eight consecutive hegemons from 1986 to 1993, and Kobayashi Jue, the champion of the 1995 chess holy war, and the current chess saint Yiliao jointly studied the chess scores of Yuta Iyama, who won the chess saint nine consecutive hegemonies from 2013 to 2021, leaving a picture of "four chess saints gathering together".
Kobayashi Kobayashi's beloved daughter Kobayashi Cai (half-brother and Izumi Kobayashi) made a stunning appearance in the live video broadcast room, explaining it with Yiliao, causing a sensation. Aya Kobayashi has the strength of an amateur 5 dan, and is currently studying at Waseda University, which is considered to be a student of Yiliao.
After the game, the top three of contemporary Japanese Go are in the same frame. In an interview, he revealed his heart: "I hope to sit in the position of Shibano Toramaru (challenger) next year." ”
Once again, the rush of reporters did not wait for the early end of the game.
Compared with the previous picture, Koichi Kobayashi, a seventy-year-old grandmaster of the new generation, interacted with two opponents in different positions, and his love for Go was overflowing with action.