Yesterday's push is Mr. Masao Kato related articles, many chess friends messages, publish a variety of feelings and nostalgia, Mr. Kato is worthy of the same as Mr. Takemiya, is the most intimate super chess player for fans. Brother "Shangri-La" said:
"Mr. Kato is my initiation teacher for learning the layout of Chinese streams, and his "Chinese stream layout" and "Chinese stream Go must win" are my favorites. "Chinese Flow Layout" let me know for the first time about Muramasa's demon knife and Hashimoto's formula, and now I also think that China Flow is the best layout. It is precisely because of the Layout of the Chinese Stream that Mr. Kato has cultivated from the Second Elder of Ten Thousand Years to an Executioner and a Celestial Star! Watch Tan Xiao explain Ke Jie's fiftieth round of the Master with a low Chinese stream, the Master's 14th hand Xiaomu Xiaofei hanging horn, Tan Xiao said that he had never seen or learned it, and Mr. Kato's "Chinese Stream Go Victory Method" had this method of entry. Many years ago, watching Gu Li's game of chess against Jiang Weijie, there was a high-clamp white chess piece in the second room of the stars that I had only seen in the book "Chinese Flow Layout". Missing my eternal teacher, Mr. Kato..."
To have such a good and so many chess fans, Mr. Kato should have no regrets.
Six super-first-class threats shook the four directions, of which the relatively rare mentioned is the Hero of Otake. This is not only because Mr. Otake's record is not impressive compared to others, but also because he is older and the moment of flash is far away from us. However, as the master brother under the Mugu Gate (generally referred to as a super chess player, not really the first disciple to get started), Otake has the word "hero" in his name, which is naturally not trivial. Zhao Zhixun, Kobayashi Mitsuichi and others had all received the guidance of this master brother in their infancy, which can be described as a half-master's grace, and Mr. Otake's prestige was unmatched in the Kidani Gate.
Born in 1942, Otake was caught in the picture of Kidani at the age of nine, and he has been known for his chess talents since childhood. After entering the stage in 1956, Otake began to emerge in various competitions, and Lin Haifeng, who was born in the same month of the same year, was expected to be shared. In the fourth dan of Otake, he was first played a three-game match with Lin Haifeng of the sixth dan, and the result was that Otake had enough energy to win 2 wins and 1 draw. As the two gradually went hand in hand, they were collectively known as the "bamboo forest".
Hero Otake's first title was the 9th Prime Minister's Cup (a cutting-edge chess match between the 5th and 7th dan players of the Japan Chess Academy), defeating Hideyama Toshiro Rokudan in the final, and winning the 2.5-eye match between the champion and the then reigning Eio Sakata. With this as a starting point, Otake embarked on the fast track to win various championships, winning a total of 48 crowns so far in his career, ranking fifth in the Japanese chess world after Cho Ji-hoon, Sakata Eito, Yuta Iyama and Koichi Kobayashi, and one more than the deceased Mr. Masao Kato. However, there are not many big titles among them, and the heroes of the Seven Great Chess Battles have not been touched by the three items of Chess Saint, Ben Yin fang, and Tianyuan. Mr. Otake highlights that the results of fast chess are very good, and he has the reputation of "the immortal of fast chess".
Among the seven chess battles, the two most outstanding performances of the Heroes of Otake are the Celebrity Battle and the Qi Holy War. He has won four celebrity titles, and in addition to two failed defending titles (losing to Lin Haifeng and Zhao Zhixun), he has also challenged six times without success (lost to Zhao Zhixun and Kobayashi Koichi three times), and has appeared on the seven-time winning and losing stage of the Celebrity Challenge (4 wins and 8 losses) 12 times, second only to Lin Haifeng's 16 times (8 wins and 8 losses), tied with Zhao Zhixun's 12 times (9 wins and 3 losses), ahead of Koichi Kobayashi's 11 times (8 wins and 3 losses). In addition, as of 2020, Yuta Iyama has made 11 appearances (7 wins and 4 losses) at the Celebrity Challenge, and as the defending champion, she will catch up with Otake this year. Otake is also known as the "man in the celebrity war", which is an important symbol of his support for the "bamboo forest era".
From 1980 to 1985, he achieved six consecutive championships of Qisheng, counting seven championships, and 10 times in the first 11 periods, he was on the stage of the five-time victory-losing showdown and won the title of "Honorary Sage". In addition, Otake also performed well in the Ten Dan Battle, with two consecutive championships, a total of five victories, spanning twenty-six years. The last time was in 1994, when he defeated Koichi Kobayashi 3-2 to defend his title, which was also his last big title.
Most of our understanding of the status of Heroes Otake in the Japanese chess world is based on materials from many years ago, and on the international stage, Otake has created a very vivid image for us.
Most Chinese chess fans first know the hero of Otake as the second Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. The Japanese team, which unexpectedly lost the first edition, hired Otake as the manager, and he proudly called himself "the man with the whip" and "was not ready to play at all". But The Chinese champion Nie Weiping saved the once-precarious Chinese team with a god-like performance until he forced out the Hero of the Japanese Champion Dazhu. This was a duel between the two heroes, by the Japanese media at the time called "the highest level of the year", "the famous game of the blood", Nie Weiping, who was at the peak, turned the tide and defeated Dazhu, achieving a wild five consecutive victories, the Chinese team won another victory, the hero of Dazhu completely failed, for a time this super first-class chess player became a laughingstock, everyone felt that he was exaggerated, arrogant and rude
I slowly understood Otake After his frequent appearances in international competitions. Neither the first Fujitsu Cup nor the first Otake Hero of the YingShi Cup qualified for the game, which is an embarrassing treatment for a super-first-class chess player. However, Otake did not care, he was actually a straight-talking person, respecting strength and respecting the strong. It was not until the fifth Fujitsu Cup in 1992 that Otake proved his strength, and he even defeated Wang Licheng in the final and ascended the throne as the world champion. In the same year, the second Ying's Cup Hero Dazhu also reached the final, but unfortunately lost his way in the chaotic battle of Seo Bong-so, lost 2-3, and failed to add another crown.
In 1994, Hero Otake won the 6th Asian Quick Chess Championship and once again showed his fast chess strength. At the end of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, Otake also reappeared, serving as the 10th and 11th Japanese players consecutively. He blocked Chang Hao's five-game winning streak in the tenth tournament and achieved four consecutive wins, and the sense of responsibility and fighting spirit of being the manager was impressive. At that time, Otake personally rushed to the forefront of the Sino-Japanese ring, and at the same time showed the old and old Dragon Bell of Japanese Go, which made people feel the vicissitudes of the world. We understand that Hero Otake is actually cold and hot-hearted, he is very simple, and the so-called "wild talk" of that year is only the true judgment of the heart, not deliberate disrespect.
After that, the hero of Otake no longer had a prominent record, and he gradually became more like a gentle elder. He often appears in various Go events, interacting with chess fans, smiling kindly, and his face is full of wrinkles, like the grandfather of the neighbor. In 2007, Hideo Otake became the vice chairman of the Japan Chess Academy, and the following year he became the chairman of the board, working for the revitalization of Go in Japan, he said: "I hope to show you the beautiful game of Go. ”
Hero Otake is known for his emphasis on the beauty of Go and is known as the "Chess Player of Aesthetics". He paid great attention to chess shapes, saying that he would rather fail than go in an ugly shape. After the rise of the highly combative Korean stream, the traditional Japanese game of Go suffered a huge impact, Andtake's style was once ridiculed, and he himself was knocked down by Seo Bong-so's field style in the second Ying's Cup final. However, looking back years later, we still think that Mr. Otake's chess looks more pleasing to the eye, and he is a classical idealist.
On closer inspection, Hero Otake is actually a very connotative person, and perhaps we have been underestimating his value. He has dreams, he refuses to go with the flow, and after all, it is a scenery, after all, he has raised millions of troops, immediately Wushan, even if he is no longer the protagonist in this era, who can ignore the brilliance of the sunset?
"Old" is a process, and this process is frighteningly short. Watching the heroes from the glory to the gradual aging, like watching a wonderful drama of ups and downs, when the curtain is low, we suddenly realize that in fact, we are also accompanying them to grow old.