Revealing the secret of Xu Haojun | The best result of the World Series is only the top 8, and the local production of Baodao is good at fast chess, and has great potential

On September 28, Beijing time, in the men's individual Go competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games, 22-year-old Chinese Taipei newcomer Xu Haowei defeated the world's top three Park Tinghuan, Shen Zhenzhen and Ke Jie to win the championship, shocking the world chess world. Who is Xu Haowei? What is his upbringing, current achievements and potential, this article will solve the puzzle for you.

He may become the second World Crown winner of the treasure island

The Go world champion is the highest honor. Xu Haowei won the championship in this Asian Games, and it can only be said that he stood on the Asian stage from the first person in Baodao Go. His current best result in the World Series is only the quarterfinals of the 2020 Ying's Cup and Chunlan Cup, but he has a strong upward momentum and may become the second person in Taiwan to win the Go World Championship in the future.

Lin Haifeng won the championship in the final of the third Fujitsu Cup in 1990, defeating the chess saint Nie Weiping. Lin Haifeng has never become a Japanese citizen with a Chinese passport so far, but he belongs to the Japan Chess Institute, and generally this world championship is believed to be won by Lin Haifeng, a Taiwanese chess player from the Japanese Chess Academy. In the final of the 9th LG Cup in 2005, Zhang Xu, also a chess player from Taiwan, defeated Yu Bin (currently the head coach of the Chinese Go team) 3-1 to win the championship.

In the final of the 11th LG Cup in 2007, Zhou Junxun from Taiwan, China, defeated Hu Yaoyu 2-1 and won the first Go world championship title in the true sense of Baodao.

Xu Haowei had a highlight moment in 2022, when he participated in the 9th Ying's Cup, defeating South Korea's Bian Xiangyi and Xu Jiayuan, a new talent in Japan, to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to Chinese rookie Zhao Chenyu in the quarterfinals. In that year's Chunlan Cup, Xu Haowei and world champions Shi Yue and Chen Yaoye advanced to the quarterfinals, and lost to Chinese player Li Xuanhao in the quarterfinals.

The first person in Takarajima, the new idol of Go

Hsu won eight titles in nine titles on the island of Taiwan last year, and only the title of Ikari is not yet his, and he was promoted to nine dan at the end of last year. Local media reported that he earned NT$8.5 million and about NT$1.92 million last year, making him the first person in Baodao in terms of both his record and income. He took out NT$100,000 every time he won the championship last year, donating a total of NT$800,000 to the local rookie king tournament as a prize money and give back to the Baodao chess world.

Xu Haowei is a native of Hsinchu, who has followed his brother, who is four years older than him, to learn Go in the Go classroom near his home, and his parents do not understand Go. He has shown great talent for Go since he was a child, and it took only one month to go from amateur 1 dan to 3 dan, and he was promoted to 6 dan before the first grade of elementary school to the second grade. Later, under the introduction of his classmate's parents, his parents sent him to the Taiwan Chess Academy in Taipei to learn chess.

Takarashima Go was first learned from Japan, and the most outstanding talents such as Lin Haifeng and Zhang Xu in the early days went to Japan. In recent years, some of the good seedlings of Go in Baodao have come to us to learn chess, and some have gone to study at the Korean Chess Institute. Xu Haowei is a second year of junior high school, decided to take the road of professional chess player, to Taipei's Haifeng Chess Academy to learn chess, the head coach of Haifeng Chess Academy is Zhou Junxun. The little Go teenager Xu Haowei took the high-speed train from his home in Hsinchu to Taipei Haifeng Chess Institute every day to train, saw sewing needles on the subway to do dead and alive problems, and every day after training home, he had to play tennis chess to practice. However, before he set the period, he also came to the Ge Dojo in Beijing for closed training for three months.

Xu Haowei is good at fast chess, and his keen sense of chess and victory and defeat makes him always able to grasp the key points quickly. Weijia is known as the NBA in Go, the cradle of world championships. Xu Haowei has characteristics and impact, and a few years ago, he joined the Shanghai Qing First team to compete in Weijia, becoming the second Taiwanese chess player to participate in Weijia after Zhou Junxun. Winning the Asian Games this time will be of great help to him to participate in the Weijia in the future.