In the world chess world, when it comes to the chess players who give Chinese Go players the most headaches. The first will think of Koichi Kobayashi in Japan, who has been broken by Nie Qisheng, and Ma Xiaochun has also broken through later. The second is South Korea's Cao Xuanxuan, starting from the defeat of Nie Qisheng to the defeat of Chang Hao Wang Lei after the 70s, although there is no breakthrough, but there are also winners and losers. The third is South Korea's Lee Chang-ho, who has been suppressing China's post-60s and post-70s chess players, but Chang Hao achieved a breakthrough in 2006. In addition to these three familiar chess players, there is another chess player that is not noticed by everyone, that is, South Korea's Seo Bong-so Jiudan.
Born in 1953, Xu Fengsu Jiuduan maintains an astonishingly high winning percentage of Chinese chess players in his career, and is a top Chinese player: Nie Weiping: 2 wins and 0 losses; Ma Xiaochun: 4 wins and 1 loss; Yu Bin: 3 wins and 1 loss; Chang Hao 2 wins and 2 losses; a total of 11 wins and 4 losses, with a winning rate of 73%. In the 11th Samsung Cup in 2006, the 53-year-old Xu Fengsu eliminated the 16-year-old Chinese player Chen Yaoye to enter the quarterfinals, when Chen Yaoye was the runner-up of the 10th LG Cup World Go Championship.
Seo Bong-so was invincible in the SBS Cup and the five-time Zhenlu Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament, not only setting a stunning record of 19 wins, but also winning a one-shot clearance in the fifth consecutive nine, which is also an unprecedented record.
The super-first-class chess players who fight with Xu Fengsu will feel that although his chess is good at fighting, the layout and officials are not particularly strong, and his comprehensive strength is obviously stronger than his, and he should be able to win, but he can't win, what is the reason? There is a small story that can tell us part of the reason.
When Seo Bong-so was 17 years old, his family was relatively poor, and once he had a party with two friends, and another Korean Go master, Cha Min-so, also happened to come, and the two of them chatted for a while, and their hearts were itchy, so they offered to kill a game. We all know that Cha Min-so is known as the "gambling king", and when he was young, he was full of "gambling" nature.
After getting ready, Cha Min-so said that I play chess to hang up the color head, and I don't play without the color.
Poor boy Seo Bong-so said pitifully, I only have 10 yuan on me, which is still my dinner money.
Cha Min-so smiled strangely and said, 10 pieces is enough, let's start.
The two fight for half an hour, ending with Seo Bong-so killing a big dragon in Cha Min-so.
Cha Min-so handed 10 yuan to Xu Fengsu and said, the second set we began to increase the size, you now have 20 yuan, how about we bet 20 yuan a game?
Seo Bong-so agreed.
As a result, Cha Min-so was a big defeat again, so he continued to raise his bet to 40 yuan, and Cha Min-so lost again.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, Cha Min-so continues to increase the code, 80 yuan, 160 yuan, 320 yuan, 640 yuan, just like this plate to add up, Che Minsu thought, I only need to win a plate, I can all get it back!
Xu Fengsu, however, had long been fascinated by so much money, he could not resist the money that kept doubling, and he also knew that as long as he lost one set, he would have no point left, but he refused to give up and desperately made every step.
In the early hours of the morning, the bet had risen to 1280 yuan, and the ending was still Xu Bongsu's victory.
At dawn, the rich man's son Cha Min-so touched his empty pocket, and he had no money to continue.
So, Seo Bong-so filled a pocket full of money and went home excitedly.
At this time, Che Minsu's strength is already very strong, even if it is a chess player who is higher than him, it is extremely difficult to win him 8 games of chess in a row, and at this time, Xu Fengsu is only a high school student, or an amateur chess player. This defeat also shocked Che Min-so and puzzled him. Later, he summed it up and thought that Seo Bong-so was not only a rare Go genius, but also very resilient and indomitable, full of great desire to win.
In this year, Xu Fengsu was successful! From amateur chess player to professional chess player. He also quickly won the Korean Go Celebrity Battle Championship with the second dan position, becoming an unprecedented second-dan celebrity.
From this small story, we can see some problems on the side, that is, Xu Fengsu is very tenacious, in his own desperate situation, one step back and the abyss of the environment, but the rules are not chaotic, the more courageous the battle, or there is a big heart and the courage to win.
There is a saying that successful people are gamblers! The big heart and the perseverance that must win are exactly the standard of the winning and losing division, and these two points are exactly what Chinese chess players after 50, 60 and 70 generally lack.
Even Cho Hwan-hyun, who came from a famous background after returning from Dongdu, japan, lost 1:3 when he and Seo Bong-so competed for the position of Korean celebrity for the first time, and this defeat made the arrogant and ambitious Cho Kao-hyun decide to stay and develop in Korea, thus changing the historical course of Korean Go.
It can be said that the tenacious and belligerent style of Korean chess players began with Seo Bong-so.