v Since you wrote Cao Xuanxuan, it is a bit unreasonable not to write about Seo Bong-so anymore, after all, "Cao Xu" and said. Although Cho Didn-hyun did not consider Seo Bong-so to be his opponent, there was no tenacious "weed" grinding, and there were indeed doubts about whether Cao Yanzi could fly to the highest part of the sky.
Born on February 1, 1953, Seo Bong-so is a few days older than Cho Hyun-hyun, but the two have very different circumstances from childhood to adolescence. Even in the less conformist Korean chess world, Seo Bong-so is an outlier. He did not have a clear master' commitment, relying on self-taught talent to trek on the road of chess.
From the beginning of stepping into the chess world, Seo Bong-so was not a proud prince. In 1970, Seo Bong-so entered the stage at the age of seventeen, and in the same year, Cho Won-hyun had already won the "Newcomer Award" in Japan. At that time, few people could see Seo Bong-so, a strange boy, unlike Cho Nam-chul, Ha Chan-seok, Kim Yin and others who were educated under the famous Japanese teachers, how could they be recognized by the Korean chess community? But Seo Bong-so is destined to be an "insurgent", only a year later, Xu Bong-so, who was promoted to the second stage, won consecutive victories in the Korean celebrity war, and after winning the right to challenge, he overthrew the korean go spiritual leader Cho Nam-chul 3-1 and ascended to the celebrity throne! There was a national uproar.
The second celebrity, in that era, was a fantastic record. But this was only the beginning, and the greater shock was in the back. In 1972, Cho returned to South Korea for military service, and in 1973, Cao Yanzi, who walked out of the military camp, easily knocked down Kim In, the representative of Korean Go at the time, and won his first chess title, the laurel of the highest-ranking battle, and immediately took the celebrity challenge and pointed his sword at Seo Bong-so.
Cho, who is regarded as a "venus" by the Korean chess community, did not pay much attention to this peer, and did not even pay much attention to the title of "celebrity". At that time, the "celebrities" of South Korea compared with the "celebrities" of Japan, how could the gold content be more than ten times worse? Cho Hyun Hyun is ready to return to Japan to compete for Japan's "celebrity", he just wants to win a few championships in South Korea, Seo Bong-so is just a small hill, and stepping on the level should be just a breeze. What no one expected was that Cho suffered the first major setback of his career at this challenge. Ye Luzi's Xu Bongsu eighteen weapons were used together, which caught the "noble prince" mentality of Cao Xuanxuan off guard, and 3-1, Xu Bongsu pulled down the invincible Korean Go "Crown Prince". When everyone has not yet returned from the shock, Xu Fengsu has dominated five consecutive celebrities and become the "Xu celebrities" who are still respected.
The challenge of repelling Cho Hyun Hyun caused Seo Bong-so's reputation to rise sharply at the time, but it also laid a huge hidden danger for him. That defeat discouraged Cho from returning to Japan, he could not go to Japan as a loser in the Korean chess world to compete for the title, since the homeland also had strong enemies, then cultivate the wasteland here! Since then, the Cao Xu War has spread for more than ten years, and the two have joined forces to push Korean Go to a new height. Finding a sense of rhythm, Cho Hyun Hyun has an absolute upper hand over Seo Bong-so, and the unrestrained weeds can only retreat to the second place in the Korean chess world.
If it weren't for Cho Hyun-hyun's return, Seo Bong-so would have become the head of Korean Go under the name of "Free Victory and Defeat Division", right? Of course, it will be more difficult for Korean Go to get ahead in the world chess world. History does not assume that whether in South Korea or in the world chess world, Seo Bong-so is destined to be a supporting character, but he is sometimes more brilliant than the protagonist.
In terms of personal honor, meeting Cho Hwang-hyun may be the greatest misfortune of Seo Bong-so's life, but it is the greatest luck of Korean Go. The two of them worked hard against each other, burying their heads in the wilderness of Korean Go. After Seo Bong-so reached the celebrity five consecutive championships, this laurel was finally snatched away by Cho Hwan-hyun, and he never had the opportunity to become the number one person in Korean Go, but could only be an indomitable challenger, launching an attack on Cho Hyun-hyun more ferociously than ever, forcing Cao Yanzi to maximize the potential in his body. Xu Fengsu himself stubbornly resisted the harsh winter in the barren years of no harvest, waiting for the spring breeze of the coming year. The almost disproportionate win rate with Cao Xuanxuan made Lao Cao even reluctant to call Xu Bongsu his "mortal enemy", Xu Bongsu was just like a rough whetstone, repeatedly polishing Cao Yanzi's soft wind fast gun, so that his strong wings could soar into the sky one day.
After sixteen years of solitude, Seo Bong-so finally accompanied Cho Hyun Hyun to push Korean Go to the international stage. In 1988, the Professional Go World Championship was founded, and Seo Bong-so was knocked down by Japanese super chess player Lin Haifeng in the first round of the first Fujitsu Cup, and the "Korean stream" that was still blunt at that time did not attract the attention of the orthodox world of Go. The following year, the wind direction began to change, the second Fujitsu Cup Xu Bongsu Like was in the limelight Masao Kato and Wang Minghuan reached the final four, and the semi-finals were once again defeated by the tenacious Lin Haifeng's two waists, but the world's top four was enough to impress everyone. In 1990, Seo Bong-so defeated prodigy Lee Chang-ho 3–1 in the final to win the second Toyo Securities Cup. The first two Toyo Securities Cups have never been regarded as world competitions by us due to the lack of top Chinese and Japanese masters, but the statistics of the Korean chess community regard the as the world champion of Seo Bong-so and the first champion, Leung Jae-ho.
The second Ying's Cup in 1992 was the glory of Seo Bong-so's life, when Cho Hwan-hyun, Lee Chang-ho and other South Korean compatriots were defeated, Seo Bong-so, who had few people paying attention before the game, rushed forward and fought alone, all the way to Theok Cheng Minghuang, Fujisawa Hideyuki, Takemiya Masaki, the semi-final 2-1 chess idol Cho Ji-hoon, the final battle was five games, 3-2 to conquer the super-first-class chess player Datake Hero, standing at the peak of the chess world.
From a technical point of view, this is no less than the victory won by Cao Xuanxuan in the first Ying Cup. Seo Bong-so tore open the iron curtain of Japanese orthodox Go with his native Korean stream, directly knocking down three of the six supers, and his combat strength is beyond doubt, but because of the lack of "pioneering skills" and the difference in propaganda intensity, his influence is greatly inferior. This is Seo Bong-so's fate, he will always be just an indomitable stone in the shadow of the giant. He can slash and slash a thousand armies, but he is only a fierce general after all, not a marshal with a command.
After that, it was a frenzied raid in the Three Kingdoms Ring. In a total of six SBS Cup and Zhenlu Cup appearances in the last five editions, Xu Bongsu's total result is a terrifying 17 wins and 3 losses. Among them, he won two consecutive victories twice (of which the first SBS Cup conquered the Chinese and Japanese lords will become the terminator), four consecutive wins, the most dazzling is the fifth Zhenlu Cup from 1996 to 1997, he single-handedly captured nine Chinese and Japanese generals, and his great achievements shocked the world. Because Seo Bong-so's performance was too outstanding, the Zhenlu Cup was suspended, and Sino-Japanese Go was completely overtaken by Korean Go.
Unfortunately, two years later, the Nongshim Cup was founded, and the format was exactly the same as that of the Zhenlu Cup, but Xu Fengsu had been abandoned by the pace of the times. He did not appear on the Nongshim Cup once, and even the most powerful hero would be buried by the wind and sand of the years. In fact, not playing is not necessarily a bad thing, Xu Fengsu's memory will always be the man who won nine consecutive victories, he does not have to let future failures erase the glory of his vicissitudes.
In 2006, Seo Bong-so competed in the 11th Samsung Cup with a wild card and reached the final four, when he was 53 years old. In 2019, the 66-year-old Xu Fengsu reached the round of sixteen in the 24th Samsung Cup, which was also his last afterglow on the world competition stage. Other times, we can only watch Seo Bong-so fight in various senior tournaments and online chess battles, and he is still the mighty field commander in front of his old opponents.
Even if you are a world champion and one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Xu Fengsu has never been a figure who has been pushed up and down the chess world as a model. He has always gone his own way, communicating with the world in his own way. Seo Bong-so's personal life is not satisfactory, and he is not good at financial management. He divorced his wife in 2003 and married a Vietnamese woman in 2004, and the new house was rented, which made the Korean chess community feel that it was a "face loss" thing and was reluctant to mention it. But Seo Bong-so doesn't care so much, he said: "Although the bride is not skilled, she is a meek woman who truly loves me." No matter what others say, I love her and feel happy living with her. "Even, Xu Fengsu wanted to immigrate to Vietnam. Even if the chess player is a world champion, he is just an ordinary person, and Xu Fengsu lives a real life, cold and warm self-knowledge.
Pat the dust on your body, cheer up your tired spirit, the distance may be full of bumps, maybe you have to walk alone. Xu Fengsu's gaze was a little confused, and his hunched waist seemed to be unable to withstand the pressure of life. How many people in the chess world now respect this "weed" blown and grown by the spring breeze from the bottom of their hearts? Even if he was a totem in the hearts of thousands of "grassroots", he had to bear the loss of being ignored.
A glass of turbid wine is a thousand miles away, and Yan Ran has not returned to the house. The Qiang flute sounded, Xu Fengsu stored wine in that beautiful Ying's cup, full of white frost, was he the dazed general or the tearful-eyed Zhengfu?