In 1992, at the age of 67, Hideyuki Fujisawa defeated Koichi Kobayashi (a famous chess saint) the first person in the Japanese chess world in the final of the 40th Battle of the Throne in Japan, defending the title of throne, and after the previous year, he set the record for the highest age in the regular competitions of Japan and the world chess world. To this day, the record is still held by him.
Born in 1925, Hideyuki Fujisawa is a contemporary of Eio Sakata, a great power player born in 1920 who created an era, and although Sakata has won chess championships far ahead of Fujisawa, the peak duration or the time span of winning the championship is far less than hideyuki.
As a chess master, Hideyuki Fujisawa has many legendary stories. First of all, he is a famous "early adopter". Fujisawa Kudan has won the first championship of chess battles such as the Prime Minister's Cup, the first decision battle of the Japan Chess Academy, the old celebrity battle, the tengen war, the chess holy war, etc., among which the old celebrity war, the tenyuan war, and the chess holy war were all the games with the highest prize money when the championship was born.
Hideyuki Fujisawa and Chen Zude
Another legend of Hideyuki Fujisawa is that he only wins four games of chess a year. In 1976, Japan's largest chess game "Chess Holy War" was born (the current prize money is 45 million yen, still the highest tournament prize money in the world), and Hideyuki Fujisawa, who was over 50 years old and was not optimistic before the game, miraculously won the then unstoppable up-and-coming stars such as Masao Kato, Yoshio Ishida, and Masaki Takemiya to reach the final of the seven chess games, and finally won the championship by picking out Yutaro Hashimoto 9dan 4:1.
In the following five years, Hideyuki Fujisawa successively repelled the challenges of powerful opponents such as Masao Kato, Yoshio Ishida, Hayashi Haifeng (twice), and Hero Otake, and achieved the six consecutive championships of chess. The process of defending the title five times was thrilling, condensed into a series of blood and tears, of which the second period was against Masao Kato, the first four games fujisawa Hideyuki fell behind 1:3, the chess saint position was shaky, but Fujisawa pulled three consecutive rounds, and the fifth game slaughtered the hundred-eyed dragon, shocking the chess world. The final game was only half an eye, even at the last moment, Kato still had the possibility of half an eye win, which is the origin of the famous "billion yuan half eye" story; the sixth period was also thrilling for Lin Haifeng, Fujisawa fell behind 2:3, the sixth game was already a must-lose trend, when photojournalists were ready to shoot a new chess Christmas scene, and the result was that Fujisawa Hideyuki still survived.
The magic is that in the past few years, Hideyuki Fujisawa has lost in other competitions one after another, and rarely wins chess, only in the final of the chess holy war seven-piece chess, as if there is divine help, he has staged a desperate drama again and again, winning six consecutive championships and winning the title of "Honorary Chess Saint". Therefore, he is known as a big chess player who only wins four games a year.
The seventh chess holy war is Fujisawa's Battle of broken souls. In the seven chess games, he began to win three consecutive games, forcing the challenger Zhao Zhixun into a desperate situation, but Zhao Zhixun actually won four consecutive sets to achieve a big reversal. Fujisawa was surprised that he could not win no matter what the advantage, and only after the game did he realize that he had suffered from cancer at the time of the game.
The battle between Hideyuki Fujisawa and Nie Weiping in the ring
Alcoholic, lustful, and gambler are the three major labels of Fujisawa Chess. Because of good alcohol, it was common for the police to go to his house; he was repeatedly refused domestic flights by alcoholism. Xiuxing is also, and he is called Xiuxing who loves to taste fresh fruits, which is not only to praise his Go, but also to put it in terms of his female color. He had an illegitimate child outside, got cancer, and those lovers still came to visit in a big way, but Fujisawa's wife took care of the overall situation and avoided the conflict. In addition to the alcoholic, his gambling addiction is more famous. He was an all-rounder in Go, lost a mess in the casino, and finally lost to the point where even his family property was mortgaged. He went out to play, followed by the "creditor corps", and the prize money for the chess game had been pre-divided. The huge bonus he received for six consecutive chess saints was not enough to fill a fraction of the accumulated debt. On a plane to China, Hideyuki Fujisawa once said, "How I wish the plane had fallen into the sea now." This is a true portrayal of Hideyuki Fujisawa, who was almost driven crazy by gambling debts.
What is particularly related to the Chinese chess community is that Fujisawa, in the case of huge debts, formed the "Xiuxing Army" to visit China at his own expense. Since 1981, he has led the "Xiuxing Regiment" composed of young Japanese chess players to visit China and exchange chess skills with Chinese chess players, with a total of 13 times. It caused widespread opposition in the Japanese chess community at that time, but Fujisawa insisted that he was right to do so, and in the long run, he was actually saving Japanese Go, and now it seems how far-sighted Fujisawa's actions were. The arrival of the "Xiuxing Legion" helped Chinese Go to make a qualitative leap, and Fujisawa was loved by Chinese chess fans. In 2006, he won the "China-Japan Go Exchange Merit Award".
Possibly the cause of alcoholism, Hideyuki Fujisawa suffered from stomach cancer, lymphoma, and prostate cancer, and died in 2009. Suffering from cancer three times in his life, Fujisawa, who has never disobeyed, can only lament the hardships of fate. But no matter what kind of illness he suffered, Mr. Hideyuki never gave up Go (in fact, his explosive power in Go was not affected by the destruction of the disease).
On the left is Fujisawa Rishi
As for Mr. Hideyuki's great achievements in the Game of Go, it is said that Hideyuki Fujisawa, who is debt-ridden and gambling-obsessed, erupted with extraordinary strength under the stimulation of huge bonuses to win the championship one after another, becoming the "early adopter" of many chess battles. Although this is true, Fujisawa Hideyuki has been obsessed with chess all his life, and his chess talent is outstanding, which is probably the most fundamental reason why Hideyuki can "taste early" in the competition.
Mr. Hideyuki's family heritage is very outstanding, his youngest son Fujisawa Kazuchi is a Japanese chess academy eight-dan player, although not up to the height of his father, but for the old man to cultivate a top granddaughter, today's First Japanese Women's Go - Fujisawa Rishi.
In any case, Mr. Hideyuki Fujisawa, who is respected by world Go celebrities such as Cao Xuanxuan, Nie Weiping, ma Xiaochun, etc., is a strange person in the world Of Go world and an admirable chess player.