In 1988, the Fujitsu Cup and the Ying Cup were established, and the World Series became the most eye-catching focus of the chess world, and the influence of the Japanese title battle was correspondingly weakened. In that year, Masao Kato retained only the title of throne in the Seven Great Chess Battles, and the face of "Japan's strongest player" was no longer there. In 1989, Kato's performance did not improve, and he did not succeed in other chess battles, and the battle of the throne ushered in the challenge of Haone Taisho.
Hagen Taisei is affiliated with the Chubu Headquarters of the Japan Chess Academy and is known as the "Chubu Big Diamond" in contrast to Hiroshi Yamashiro's title of "Chubu Small Diamond". He was strong and was in the midst of a career breakthrough. In December 1988, Yugen Tai was reversing the defeat of The Chinese coach Nie Weiping, who had won 11 consecutive games in the ring, in the fourth Sino-Japanese ring, which made the Japanese chess community, which was suppressed by Nie Whirlwind, extremely excited, and became a "Venus" level chess player. With this momentum, Hagen Tai is breaking the three super-first-class martial arts in the 37th Battle of the Throne, and the challenger decides to fight against The three major chess battles for the first time.
One side is in the updraft, the other side is tenaciously guarding the remaining water, and Kato is not favored by most people before the game.
In the first round of the challenge, Hagen Taisho played well, the next famous game, the black half-eye win, the first to take the lead, Kato lamented that "this time probably to become the uncrowned king." However, in the second set, Kato fought tenaciously in an unfavorable situation, and with the help of the official Shengong to retake Ichijo, the two sides returned to the starting line.
The third inning of Tennozan was crucial.
Japan's 37th Throne Challenge was won and defeated in the third round
Black: Yasumasa Hagen Challenger (Nine Dan)
White: Masao Kato (Kudan)
A total of 128 lots
White wins in the middle of the game
Date of match: 15 November 198
Location of the match; Japan
Hagen Taisei belongs to the style of power-fighting chess, and Zhihei loves to start with high Chinese streams and has formed his own set of theories.
First spectrum 1-50
In the third set, it was Hagen Tai's turn to take the lead, and the high Chinese stream arrived as scheduled.
White 10 cloth into a triple star to compete.
Black 11 hangs high, and white 12 relies on emphasis on power.
Black 17 and 19 are stereotyped moves, but 23 is slow to take off first, and should continue to play chess in the upper left corner.
The white 24 should also immediately take the 28th turn.
Black 25 and 27 are explicit dilation techniques.
White 28 turned, and the follow-up means of black chess in the upper left corner were greatly weakened.
Bai 32's mid-abdomen feels difficult to grasp, and Masaki Takemiya, a big-look expert, thinks it is better to walk the next way in Tianyuan.
Black 33 good points.
Black 39 seemed supposed to fly back, emphasizing the big void that surrounded itself.
White 40 turns, the right side of the black chess piece suddenly thinned, and the middle abdomen is also facing being attacked.
Black 41 jumped down tough, Kato White 42 not to be outdone.
Black 43 and 45 are good ideas, and the two sides are scuffles.
Black 49 is the first hand long, and how to shape here is very critical.
Second Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 51-100)
Black 1 asked to make up for the defect of being cut off first, and White 2 rushed back.
Under the black 3 block, the two sides are imperative to switch.
White 12 broke the discarded son, white 14, 16 held the lower side, the field is huge.
It is also very pleasant to pluck flowers first, black 19 is long and thick, and the left side of the white chess is squashed.
White 20 below the first hand is cheap, white 26 hit the right, Kato is strongly warlike.
Black 27 and 29 held the air, and Hagen judged the situation well.
When the white 30 tip, the black 31 when the 32nd bit, here the matter is both sides of the basis, too big.
White 32, 34 is very pleasant.
When the white 36 block, Hagen appears dead or alive illusion, black 37 pull, defeated move! If this hand is in the 38th place, the situation is still very long.
White 38 to 42, the whole piece of black chess can not make two eyes.
White 50 punches, black chess net death, the overall situation has been determined.
Third Spectrum 1-28 (i.e. 101-128)
Below black 5, Hagen Tai is trying to hard encircle the big air.
White 12 flew out, and the black chess piece was not thick and could not be desired.
White chess as long as you live out a piece of it, to white 28 to eat, black chess can not prevent white chess contact home, feather throw.
In the crucial battle, Hagen Tai was making a simple mistake, and Kato easily won. After capturing Mt. Tenno, Kato continued his efforts in the fourth set, winning 7 and a half eyes in black, thus successfully defending the throne title 3-1.
At this point, Masao Kato achieved eight consecutive thrones, a total of ten times to the top, and completed his long-cherished wish of "winning the throne ten times". The Eight Consecutive Powers surpassed Eio Sakata's Honinbo Seven Consecutive Hegemons, and directly approached Takakawa Katsura's Honinfang Nine Consecutive Hegemons (at that time, Cho Ji-hoon's Honin-fō Ten Consecutive Hegemonies had not yet been achieved), and was a monument to the Japanese chess world.
Unfortunately, the success of this defense also became a sunset remnant of Masao Kato, and the following year (1990), Hagen Taisho made a comeback, 3-2 to pick Kato down, took away the throne title, and became the king of Japanese chess titles. Later, Hagen Taisho's son, Naoki Hane, won a number of titles such as Chess Saint, and once became the first person in Japan, and the title of father and son is still unique to this day. Kato's record of holding titles for 14 consecutive years, starting in 1976, came to an abrupt end, when he was 43 years old.
Kato's golden age is over, but a generation of sword masters has not been depressed, and after that, he will set off a storm, making people dare not or forget the prestige of the "Celestial Star".
Masao Kato defeated Taisho Hane in 128 hands
Written by Prof. Kato
Taisei Hane (left) defeats Nie Wei Ping in the 4th Sino-Japanese Tournament