Luo Xiehe is an important figure in the history of Chinese Go, and his greatest contribution was to pull down Lee Chang-ho, the world's first man at the time, in the 10th Samsung Cup Sanbanqi final in January 2006. Prior to that, in March 2005, Chang Hao defeated South Korea's rising star Choi Chul-han, known as Lee Chang-ho's nemesis, to win the fifth Ying's Cup. The victory of the two men became an important turning point in China's Fight against the raging Korean Wave, which is of great historical significance. In addition, it is worth mentioning that after the stone Buddha was hit by the "fatal blow" of the Roche River, he has since stepped off the altar and has never won the world championship again.
As a talented chess player, Luo Xiehe has many interesting stories and stories, and every time he reads it, he can't help but be funny. Below I choose some of them to make public to play chess with friends.
From "Piglet" to "Sacred Pig"
Luo Xiehe usually does not smile, but people who know him well like to call him "Little Pig", how did this cute name come about? When the national junior team was in the company of Chang Hao, Shao Weigang, Zhou Heyang, etc., Luo Xianhe was a lazy boy, gluttonous, snoozing, greedy, untrimmed, sloppy, coupled with a chubby appearance, I don't know which teammate gave him the title of "little pig", because it was more vivid, this nickname spread.
In the 10th Samsung Cup, which began in 2005, the "little piglet" with divine help started from the qualifiers and reached the final, and in January 2006, he defeated the then world first man Lee Chang-ho and was crowned the world champion, and since then "piglet" has been upgraded to "god pig".
Nine sections of the Rocha River
Bargain spanking
In November 1983, the 6-year-old Luo Xianhe drifted to Beijing, because there was no conditional arrangement in the chess academy at that time, and was finally taken to his home by Luo Jianwen, the mentor of Aicai, to learn chess, and he ate and lived in Luo Jianwen's house.
However, Luo Jianwen's family is only more than 10 square meters, in order to place a small wash river, Luo Jianwen got a high and low bunk from the chess courtyard, his son slept on the upper bunk, washed the river to sleep on the bottom bunk, Luo Jianwen and his wife will be on the double sofa, during the day to put the sofa up, expand some living space.
Usually, Luo Jianwen brought Xiao Wash River to the national Go team, and some young members of the team played chess with Wash River when they had free time, and then showed Luo Jianwen after returning home. Luo Jianwen has a ring ruler given by a Japanese friend, which is also the most intimidating thing for Xiao Wash River. When playing chess, there is often a dialogue between the master and the apprentice: "Should this place be beaten like this?" "The." "Is it okay to hit five times?" "Three downs?" "All right." After the bargaining between the master and the apprentice was completed, the apprentice's ass was gently slapped three times, and the chess game continued. "When I washed the river and was beaten, I was very well-behaved, so I took off my pants and went to bed and waited." As soon as Luo Jianwen talked about these past events, he couldn't help but have many smiles on his face.
I don't know the later "sister-in-law" Zhang Xuan
When Luo Xiehe was young, he was a little confused, did not recognize people, and even zhang guan Li Dai, especially when he met female chess players. Once, after he returned home, he told Luo Jianwen that today he and Wang Hui (a female chess player in Zhejiang) played a game of 2 sons. Luo Jianwen listened to some wonders: "Wash River's current chess strength, why did Wang Hui let him have two sons?" The next day when I went to the chess academy to ask, I learned that the person who directed chess with the wash river yesterday was Zhang Xuan.
Zhang Xuan later became Mrs. Chang Hao, and Luo Xuanhe was Chang Hao's teammate in the national junior team, born in 1976 when Chang Hao da Luo Washhe was one year old, Zhang Xuan was naturally Luo Haohe's future sister-in-law.
Luo Xiehe took a group photo with his mentor Luo Jianwen
Amazingly high IQ
In the chess world, Rochehe is best known for his high intelligence, of course, this is not at all obvious from the appearance.
Around 1986, Shanghai Weiqi Monthly held a national chess children's competition, and the best chess teenagers in the country came to Shanghai to compete, including Luo Xianhe and Chang Hao. The championship of the competition was won by Chang Hao, but the light of Luo Xiehe was not covered by Chang Hao at all. Because during the competition, the psychology department of East China Normal University took the participating little chess children to do an IQ test, and the results were 9-year-old Luo Xiehe and 10-year-old Chang Hao were more prominent, but Luo Xianhe was 164, far more than Chang Hao's 138! After this test, it verified everyone's previous impression of his "high INTELLIGENCE".
I read a lot of books and like to read the theoretical foundations of Marxism the most
Luo Xiehe has loved to read since childhood. Wu Yulin, the coach of the National Junior Team at that time, once said: "He is a very peculiar person, since he was a child, he has not been interested in children's books, in addition, whether it is cultural knowledge books, intellectual interest books, martial arts, romance novels, and even philosophy, politics and economics, and even religion and other books, he wants to personally look through." ”
Before the 10th Samsung Cup final, Luo Xihe said in a live interview on a website: "Reading books, my favorite is the foundation of Marxist theory. Probably many people will take this as a joke, but the words of Xu Ying, a female chess player who trained with Luo Xianhe in the National Junior Team, can be used as proof: "I remember once when I was a child, I saw Luo Xianhe holding a thick 'Mao Xuan' and looking at it with relish. How old was he then? It's twelve or thirteen years old. I don't know if he can really understand it, but he looks at it very seriously anyway. I have the impression that he reads everything, reads the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, reads Tolstoy, reads ancient poetry, and of course has books about love..."
Mr. and Mrs. Rochehe
Greedy, otherwise the achievement will be greater
Luo Xihe loves to play, and his hobbies are very wide, from video game consoles and online games to bridge, mahjong, landlord fighting, etc. And every time you play a game, you will become a master of it. At that time, the popular "Tetris", he played the fastest 9th speed with ease, simply godlike.
But the grown-up Roche River is a typical example of "young and strong and not working hard". At the age of 11, Rochehe successfully advanced to the beginning of the career in the promotion stage. After that, Luo Xihe played chess with a momentum of one paragraph a year, and by the time he won the Frost Flower Cup National Youth Go Championship in 1995, he was already a professional fifth dan. But apart from winning the NEC Cup once in 2001, there was no other outstanding record, except for the Go training arranged by the team every day, that is, eating, sleeping, and playing games.
However, after getting married the year before, the maverick behavior of the "god pig" has been somewhat restrained. Mrs. Liang Yadi recalled: "After getting married, I heard him say, 'In the future, I must win the world championship, I will leave home at the age of 6, so many people take care of me, I am sorry for not taking the world championship, and the most sorry is master Luo Jianwen'. ”
Luo Jianwen has also always had confidence in him, compared to other long-established dragon and tiger chess players, Luo Xianhe's results are relatively cold, before the start of the 10th Samsung Cup, Luo Jianwen said: "Before washing the river was more greedy, the heart of victory and defeat was not very heavy, and it did not pay much attention to the results of the game. Now that I have grown up, I am serious, and people are more mature, so they may get better. ”
Temperamental people, unique personality
The little pig with outstanding personality is a person with a temperament, and he has a fight with Ma Xiaochun, a master, and is laughed at by a big guy in the chess world as "there is a backbone behind the head". In a round-up league, Luo Xihe played against Nie Weiping. The morning game washed the river has shown a big defeat. Before sealing the plate at noon, Old Nie Shen refused to drop his son, and Luo Xiehe did not move. At lunch, Old Nie faced the feast carefully prepared by the organizers, and did not dare to eat and drink, for fear of the famous "fainting" in the afternoon. At the beginning of the afternoon game, Old Nie had just dropped a son, and Luo Xihe pushed the maple and conceded defeat. It made Old Nie cry and laugh, "This Luo Xiehe!" I've conceded defeat and I can drink some wine at noon..."
No matter how formal the occasion, I refused to wear a tie, waited for the plane at the Korean airport, and when I was tired, I lay down on the floor with my clothes. The national team hung up a large board to talk about chess, and others listened intently, but he held a newspaper and flipped it vigorously.
Another example is that when he played the Samsung Cup semi-final guess with Cui Zhehan, he only pinched a black child, which almost annoyed Cui Zhehan and made the media happy.
The Samsung Cup won
Skilfully use the empty city plan
Don't look at Luo Xihe, who looks embarrassed and silent, but if you really want to calculate, it is also outstanding. In an international competition, Luo Xihe vs. Song Taikun, seeing that the situation would collapse, Luo Xihe played a very complex chess hand at this critical juncture, but this hand was actually not established. After falling, Luo Xiehe got up and went to the side to watch other people's games, anyway, he had time. Song Taikun repeatedly calculated that there should be no chess here, but seeing Luo Xiehe's relaxed look of wandering around the field, he couldn't help but be full of doubts. Hesitating like this, Song Taikun finally landed on the Dao'er of the Luo River. Afterwards, Luo Xianhe smiled and said, "I walked around the whole field specifically for him to see, anyway, if I don't hang out, the chess will be finished." ”
Superman's memory: memorizing thousands of words of newspaper articles in an instant
Luo Xiehe's memory was comparable to that of his master Ma Xiaochun. Regarding Ma Xiaochun's memory, many chess fans know that his innate sensitivity to numbers and foreign languages can really be regarded as unforgettable. In the past, when ma Xiaochun went out to race by train, when Ma Xiaochun waited for the train, he picked up the train timetable and flipped through it casually, and the data could be reported to the people in his peers immediately.
Luo Xiehe's memory is no less than that of the famous Ma Xiaochun. Because Luo Xiehe was particularly naughty when he was a child, he was even more prominent around Chang Hao and other honest children, and the coach of the national junior team was a bit hated and itchy. Later, a coach in the northeast praised Haikou and said that he would "personally train Luo Xiehe", and the coach punished him for copying a full-page "People's Daily" article, and an hour later, he checked that Luo Xiehe did not copy it! He said to the coach in a cheerful manner: "Isn't it finished when you recite it, why did you copy it?" The coach thought he was cunning and asked him to memorize, and Luo Xihe actually memorized thousands of words of the article word for word. The coach was stunned.