Almost every Go fan has a top Go master ranking in their minds, Chinese fans support Nie Weiping, Gu Li, Ke Jie, the Japanese are more nostalgic, a pole poked to Ben Yin Fang Dao Ce, Ben Yin Fang Zhanghe, Ben Yin Fang Xiu Ce that era, this does not matter, ancient China also has Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping, Shi Xiangxia. Korean Go likes to chant Dae Lee and Little Lee, including the current Shin Jin-chan.
It can be said that the three countries of China, Japan, and South Korea have each read their own scriptures. However, chess fans in various countries can not be uniform in the list of top go masters, but when it comes to the world's best masters in the Go world, there are three names that will not fall, that is, Wu Qingyuan (Japan), Lee Chang-ho (South Korea), and Alpha Go (British artificial intelligence), it is said that Wu Qingyuan and Lee Chang-ho are once-in-a-century geniuses.
Wu Qingyuan
Wu Qingyuan's heyday was from 1939 to 1956, which means that he belonged to the peak era from the age of 25 to 42.
When Wu Qingyuan was 11 years old, he was funded by Duan Qirui, a Chinese political tycoon at the time, for 100 oceans a month, which was a huge amount of money at the time.
Wu Qingyuan
In the summer of 1926, the Japanese chess playerSho Kawamoto Kaoru and Kosugi Ding 4dan traveled to China and directly confronted Wu Qingyuan, confirming the good chess strength of the Go prodigy, so the loving Andetsu Kensaku began to operate Wu Qingyuan's specific study abroad, and the letter he wrote was surprisingly polite and showed superior cultivation.
Wu Qingyuan and Xiuya played against each other
On October 23, 1928, Wu Qingyuan went to Japan to study, and Hideya, a celebrity in the Japanese Go world, personally led the chess players to the train station to meet him. This detail shows the elegance of the Japanese Go community, of course, at that time Wu Shaonian was still a Chinese, as for the later he twice joined the Japanese nationality and became Japanese, indicating that the Japanese Go community has long had a naturalization policy.
Wu Qingyuan went to Japan to study, and kishichiro Okura, president of the Japan Chess Academy, donated 200 yen per month for two years. This was a huge income at the time. As for two years later, it all depends on Wu Qingyuan's personal cultivation.
Wu Qingyuan soon took an exam after he had gone through Takahira Inoue's test, Hashimoto's test, this test
It was to rate Wu Qingyuan's rank. A total of seven players participated in the test: Masami Uehara 4 dan, Murashima Yoshikatsu 4 dan, Maeda Tan Er 4 dan, Hashimoto Utaro 4 dan, Onoda Chiyo Taro 6 dan, Kitani Shi 4 dan and Honinbo Hideya 9 dan. Wu Qingyuan won six and lost one, only one game lost to Mugushi, and the rest won all. As a result, Wu Qingyuan was rated as a three-dan chess player.
In 1950, he was tested by a total of 10 chess players in the Japanese Chess Academy and the Kansai Chess Academy, resulting in 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and in February 1950, Wu Qingyuan was awarded nine dan by the Japanese Chess Academy.
Wu Qingyuan never joined the Japanese Chess Academy, but was affiliated with the Yomiuri Shimbun magazine, and from 1939 he rose to the rank of Shichidan. The Yomiuri Shimbun magazine planned a variety of chess matches with Japan's leading chess players, such as "Juban", "Rokuban" and "Sanban". Among them, his "Juban Chess" record is the most prominent. This includes 1939 against Kitani Shigoban, 1941 against Yanjin Junichi, 1946 and 1950 against Hashimoto Utaro twice, 1943, 1951 and 1952 against Fujisawa Kunosuke three jubans, 1953 against Sakata Eio Juban, and 1955 against Takakawa Katsushigo Juban. In the above ten pieces of chess, except for Yan JinJunyi, who won 1 and lost 4 times, the rest of the opponents were all reduced to the first or the first. Therefore, Wu Qingyuan is recognized as the first person in the World of Go.
The biggest controversy left by Wu Qingyuan is the issue of his nationality, and his lack of political indifference has also left him with the controversial topic of cultural traitors. However, his creativity in Go is amazing, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the founder of modern Go.
From Wu Qingyuan walking down the altar to Lee Chang-ho turning out to be born, there are actually stars in the middle, and there are several people whose names need to be mentioned, such as Sakata Einan, Takakawa Katsu, Hideyuki Fujisawa, Lin Haifeng, Hero Datake, Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya, Kobayashi Koichi, Zhao Zhixun, and Chen Zude, Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun, Chang Hao, Cao Xuanxuan, Xu Fengsu, Liu Changhe, and so on.
Lee Chang-ho
Lee Chang-ho's heyday was from 1992 to 2005, which means that his peak era from the age of 16 to 30 belongs to him.
In early 1992, Lee Chang-ho defeated Japan's top player Hayashi Hayashi Kudan 3–2 at the 3rd Toyo Securities Cup World Go Championship to win his first world-class crown and the youngest time to win a world championship when he was only 16 years old and 6 months old.
Lee Chang-ho
After a lot of trouble, he won the Fujitsu Cup, Samsung Cup, Toyota Cup, Ying's Cup, LG Cup, Chunlan Cup and many other world championships, the world's individual championship title reached an astonishing 17, in 1990, only 14-year-old Lee Chang-ho four-dan won 41 consecutive games in major chess tournaments in South Korea, becoming a new star in the Korean chess world.
Since China and South Korea had not yet established formal diplomatic relations at that time, the Chinese chess community knew very little about the Korean chess community.
In 1993, there were 16 titles in South Korea, and Lee Chang-ho won 12.
In 1994, Lee Chang-ho set a new record for a grand slam player in 16 domestic Go tournaments, that is, he won more than once for all domestic tournament champions, so he was awarded the Korean Culture Journalism Award.
Lee also set a number of records: the record for the most matches set in 1989 (111 innings), the record for the highest consecutive wins set in 1990 (41 consecutive wins), and the highest winning percentage record (78 wins and 12 losses, a winning percentage of 86.7%). This winning percentage record was not broken by Shin Jin-chan until 2020.
Lee Chang-ho's master, Cho Hyun-hyun, was a fellow disciple of Wu Qingyuan and a closed disciple of Master Se yue-hyun.
Cao Xuan-hyun once said in the heyday of Lee Chang-ho that Lee Chang-ho can at least maintain the world's first ten years, and some reporters like to break the casserole and ask the end, so how can Lee Chang-ho walk off the altar? After thinking about it, Cho said: Unless he fails to manage himself, or there is an opponent who is in a chess style.
Lee Chang-ho has subdued two generations of Chinese kings with his deep second-half kung fu, Ma Xiaochun, Chang Hao and him in the world series finals 9 times, the result is a bad 2 wins and 7 losses, of which Ma Xiaochun did not shoot a shot, becoming Lee Chang-ho's excellent background board.
Ma Xiaochun
However, Chang Hao still has tenacity, not only did he defeat his old opponent who was one year older in the finals of the Samsung Cup and Chunlan Cup, but even the iron gate of the Nongshim Cup that Lee Chang-ho had guarded for many years was also broken by him.
After the repeated charge of Luo Xiehe, Chang Hao, Jiang Weijie and others, Lee Chang-ho finally gradually withdrew from the world's no. 1 throne after 2005.
Li Changhao's exclusive method is the ability to play in the middle game, as well as the meticulous tightening of the stage from the big official to the small official, he would rather lose a little in the layout and fight a protracted war, Ma Xiaochun once wanted to defeat him in the field he was good at, but he failed, Ma Xiaochun lost a lot, and almost the fighting spirit was also lost.
Lee Chang-ho's Nongshim Cup winning percentage is estimated to be unsurpassed, and Fan Tingyu may be able to surpass Lee Chang-ho in the overall win in a few years, but the winning percentage record of the main player will be unsurpassed.
Alpha Go chapter
Alpha Go belongs to artificial intelligence, and it made a splash in 2016 by beating representative Lee Sedol Kudan, a 4-1 victory over human players in Seoul, South Korea. In 2017, he beat the Chinese chess player Ke Jie 3:0, and from 2016 to 2017, it was the heyday of Alpha Go, and then Google announced that Alpha Go was retired and stopped playing.
On January 4, 2017, something of extraordinary significance to the Go world occurred, and on this day Nie Weiping Jiudan played with the Master (Master) online, which is an upgraded version of Alpha Go, also known as Alpha Dog.
Nie Weiping
That is to say, the time for Nie Ping to fight with the Alpha Dog is ranked after the Seoul Afa Dog and Lee Sedol, and before the Wuzhen Afa Dog and Ke Jie fight.
Nie Weiping previously thought that there was no possibility of confrontation between the computer and the human brain, but after the 2016 world-shaking Go game, he found that Li Shishi could win a game.
This made Nie Weiping begin to rethink Li Zhenfeng's Method of Teaching Go. Li Zhenfeng, a Go online teacher, claimed on December 10, 2015 that he could learn Go with him for six days, from scratch to an amateur level. Li Zhenfeng's Go speed game Nie Weiping was quite dismissive, and even a little dismissive. However, after Ah Fa Dog had done something that ordinary people could not reach, Nie Weiping thought that perhaps Li Zhenfeng should be given a chance to show. Li Zhenfeng's online name is Uncle Zhenfeng, and netizens call him a real crazy uncle.
The man-machine war not only changed Nie Weiping's cognitive world, but also changed Mi Yuting's, he said: We have heard that some people claim that Go can be achieved quickly, and we don't quite believe it, but since such an incredible thing as the Alpha Dog has happened, I also want to see if this thing can be done or not. But to be honest, it is difficult for the amateur to make the nine sons want to win, and if anyone can stop me, I can really get a certificate.
Lee Sedol
Before the alpha dog and Li Shishi fought in 2016, Li Shishi, as a representative of human chess players, believed that he had no reason to lose chess, after all, before 2015, the level of Go computer programs was the level of human beings to let six to seven subs, and Fan Li Erdan and Afa Dog's test chess Li Sedol did not know. In fact, Fan Li's second dan and Li Shishi's ninth dan both signed a confidentiality agreement before the game.
That is to say, Google is not completely bottomless, and they block messages for the core interests of their own companies.
This also provides the soil and hotbed for many conspiracies during the game, such as planning agreements, such as the fact that Afa dogs will not rob, and so on.
Ke Jie
Ke Jie also posted a bold statement on Weibo: "Even if AlphaGo wins Li Sedol, it can't win me." ”
But in May 2017, Ke Jie felt the horror of artificial intelligence, and he was even abused and cried after the third set, because he felt that he had no chance of winning.
When Alpha Dog and Ke Jie fought in Wuzhen, Nie Weiping, Yu Bin, Hua Xueming, etc. were also watching the battle. Nie Weiping said that the skills displayed by Ah Fa Dog were amazing and should be paid tribute to by taking off his hat.
On the surface, Nie Weiping is more recognized with new things, but he also has an irrational side, for example, he and the Master (Master), that is, the upgraded version of Alpha Go, play, Nie Weiping lost 7.5 mesh, but Nie Weiping claimed that his game was the closest to victory, the reason is that in the middle stage, he took the robbery into a net death in a local area, which can be described as a heavy loss, the loss was at least 20 mesh, but in the end he only lost 7.5 mesh, that is not to say that no mistake is to win?
I believed Nie Weiping's calculation method at the beginning. But I recently bought a copy of Meng Tailing's new book, "The Master in My Eyes." It wasn't like that, in fact, Nie Weiping had a serious slowdown in the layout stage that claimed to be the first in the fifty-step world.
Then the timing of Nie Wei's flat point in the upper right corner is indeed good, but if this is his chance to win, I will never believe it, if I believe it, I have to add a pill. In order to facilitate everyone to have a perceptual understanding of the change of rational understanding, I will append a few chess sheets and try to achieve both pictures and texts.
Basic picture situation: Nie Weiping and Master (black) matchup, white 40 to 44 is a serious slow hand, even if you go, you have to go 42 places to jump.
Refer to Figure 1: White chess single point angle is a good chess, black chess is not alive, white chess is full of chess to play.
Actual combat figure 1: Master black 1 is behind, the situation of white chess has been severe, and the white 6 point angle is still a good chess at this time.
Actual combat figure two: White 4 is a serious mistake, that is, Nie Weiping's move that loses 20 purposes in one hand. To the black 7 white horn net death, although there are 8-10 counterattacks, but the clear eye looks black △ is not difficult to deal with.
Reference figure 2: Nie Weiping in the upper right corner ignored that the 4-bit tip is a good chess piece, and the 17-point is robbery, which is the reason why Bai 10 is off the front.
It must be pointed out that behind Alpha Go there is a team of dozens of google companies, in a sense they are collective combat, and there is an unequal relationship between human chess players and Afa dogs, in other words, Alpha dogs are in the dark, and humans are in the light.
Although Alpha Go is a deliberate mindless. But it can't be denied that it and the team behind it are big winners, because they did what the company didn't do before, it was even dashing, waved, left, went far, and didn't take away a cloud.
From Wu Qingyuan, Lee Chang-ho to Alpha Go: they are all world-class masters standing on top of the world.
Finally, I would like to reflect on it: there is Wu Qingyuan in the Japanese chess industry, Lee Chang-ho in the Korean chess industry, Alpha Go in the British Google company, and what is in the Chinese chess community?